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Vandals drummer Josh Freese hadn’t touched a video game in almost 20 years when he started playing “THPS” to beat boredom on the tour bus when the band was performing in Europe.

He added he received footage of the defacing with the message "South Vandals 4 life! Team Robbo".

Benny is reduced to a symbol of sorts, a visual emblem of the Vandals’ dangerous glamour.

The story, such as it is, traces the evolution of a fictional Chicago-area motorcycle club, the Vandals, from its racer origins.

The film is deeply evocative of its time and place and, as the Vandals’ fortunes rise and fall, there’s an almost anthropological interest in the intricacies of how the gang operates and decisions get made.