Over the Edge (1981)

Kind of a low-rent Outsiders where every kid's a greaser and almost every adult's a soc -- Matt Dillon even tries out his rebel act here first. But it's just so ridiculous. It winds up being a poorly-acted Teens Gone Bad horror movie, even has a Dawn of the Dead ending with the adults trapped in a building while the kids run wild.

The only value to this movie for me was the fact that it transported me, momentarily, to my youth. These kids would've been right at home in my middle school yearbook. And did everyone own the same striped sheets in the late '70s? We did -- and I know I've seen them pop up in a couple of other films, too.

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