Just for the Hell of It

Just for the Hell of It

The new look in madness that laughs and destroys anything in its way...including your life!

1968 · 85 min · ★ 4.0 · Drama, Thriller

A teenager, blamed for the terror befalling a Florida neighborhood, sets out to find the real culprits, who are in fact a punk gang leading local delinquents on a nihilistic spree of destruction and mayhem.

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis · Written by Allison Louise Downe

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