Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Took me two viewings to see this film in its entirety. First time, I fell asleep less than halfway through. It's a mighty slow starter, folks. Once it does get going though, well, it's not much better. The premise is alright I suppose, for a B horror. Quite typical, really. Bad hippies/ex cons/psychotics on bikes terrorizing people for the hell of it. The acting was suitably bad, the victims were obligingly stupid and helpless. It was predictable as can be from the quiet girl getting killed to the third biker crashing but miraculously recovering in the end to save the day. Actually, it's a pretty standard B movie, which I'm normally a fan of. But I still can't give it higher than a 3/10, mainly because of the needlessly disturbing content and the rape scenes. Even a good movie has a hard time justifying those, and this ain't no good movie.

A group of female students and their teacher (Brenda Fogarty) are traveling through the desert by bus. After the bus breaks down, they are stranded with three bikers, one of whom is a vicious killer. Is there a limit to what immoral beasts will do to teenage girls? The movie answers the age-old question: can three motorcycles tow a school bus? I don't want to ruin the suspense, but the answer is actually yes, apparently.The film comes off as a cross between "Easy Rider" and "Last House on the Left". There's clearly a Krug (Al, played by Zalman King) and a Junior (Jay Andrews, played by Robert Gribbin) here, but of course, now they have motorcycles! The girls are dressed a bit skimpy, flirt a bit too much, and whatnot. Especially Bobbie (Dina Ousley), the girl in the yellow short shorts. I don't want to say they brought their situation on themselves, but they did not make it any easier. The thugs were teased and taunted to the breaking point.

I finally saw "Trip With Teacher" on my wonderful five dollar K Mart "Grindhouse Greats" collection. Some observations that have not yet been made. There are some complex, if strange ideas bouncing around this seemingly real dumb movie. First, Zalman's character, if viewed objectively, seems to be trying to stay out of trouble, yet circumstance seems to keep dragging him and his annoying little laugh into trouble. Early on he makes a play and tries to grab the the teacher's breast, which might have been enough to have them write him off. Yet they keep INVOLVING him..... The "hero" is a real wuss who could basically saved the day at anytime. His survival of a (well staged) fall to his death is not believable. But if he got up, why doesn't he go for the cops in the first place.The strange scene where Zalman smothers the nicest of the good girls to death, and seems to have an a sexual climax without undressing. Murder is sex to this guy, I guess. The teacher is all happy at the end and seems to have completely forgotten about the murdered girl or the dead bus driver for that matter. Is She the real bad guy? All in all, an interesting low budget affair.

Zalman King is known today, if he's known at all, as the purveyor (producer-writer-director) of sleazy softcore smut like Red Shoe Diaries - in the early-mid 90s a "Zalman King" film definitely had some meaning in the straight-to-video market, I can tell you.But in the 70s, Zalman King was a struggling actor doing guest shots on network TV series, and appearing in cheesy low-budget exploitation films like Trip With Teacher. Here he's Al, very tall and hook-nosed but otherwise a near dead-ringer for Bono (well, for Bono 15 years later), a creepy and mentally deranged biker who with his more sane but no less unpleasant brother Pete (Robert Porter) is stuck by the side of the road at the beginning of the flick. The brothers have bike problems, but they're soon bailed out by nice-guy motorcyclist Jay (Robert Gribbin) who gets Pete's bike going well enough to get them to the next service station.Along the way the three bikers come upon a school bus with several young women - coy waving and less-coy glances from the 2 brothers for a bit, then all stop at the gas station. I think you might be able to guess where this is headed....if it were made 10-15 years later you'd expect a bloody horror film, but back in these pre-Friday the 13th and Halloween days it's just going to be the two creepy guys trying to have their way with the cute girls and get rid of nice-guy Jay and bus driver Marvin (Jack Driscoll). It's all rather long and tedious - bus breaks down, bikers tow it to near a deserted shack, get rid of driver, seemingly get rid of Jay....and all fairly stupid and silly (how dumb are the girls, Jay and the driver that they don't see that the brothers are sickos? and sickos without any weapons apart from one switchblade...but overpowering them would have been too easy and we wouldn't have a movie and an excuse for some nude scenes) until the kind of cool ending as Jay comes back seemingly from the dead and shows that he's a Real Man after all.The weakest of the three films on the "Drive-in Cult Classics" box set that I've seen so far, but worth it for the cool ending and for King's deranged and freaky portrayal of Al, with one of the creepiest snickering laughs I've ever heard.