Cosy Cool

1978

Pam Jackman and Charlene Webb film clip (collages below)

Cosy Cool is a 1978 motorcycle road movie where Cosy (writer/director Gary Young) is fired from his job at a petrol station and then pours petrol over the owner. He calls up his mate Gracious Grytt (John Wilson) to ask him to come on a road trip with him and they travel around the country doing things like winning a car/motorcycle appreciation contest, having some fun with some 'chicks' who conveniently turn up and just getting into general trouble for being motorcycle riders. Also, two men are setting them up for a bizarre cult murder for some reason and a rifle-toting crazy dude wants revenge for humiliating him in front of pubgoers.

Baffling, incoherent movie that flagrantly rips off Stone and Easy Rider and is just all-round amateurish. The 'plot' is barely worth mentioning and we never really know why some dude wants them 'gone' so much. There's also large chunks of plot written on the screen and plenty of footage is just repeated. There's long segments of the movie that just the two riding their bikes or a drag race meeting which is inexplicably put in, clearly to pad out the movie to a feature length 72 minutes. There's one scene where a car is driven into a tree with people in it which looks way too real. At the end, there's a shot of the infamous Comancheros bikie gang for some reason. Clearly aimed at the roadshow set where fetishistic shots of cars, bikes and girls were all you needed, this is an embarrassingly shitty movie.

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