This movie was probably too much fun to watch. Sure the pacing was a little slow. Sure the graphics are a level of dated that I never thought possible. Sure its frog-worshiping, death-defying antics are laughable. But it's laughable. A biker gang systematically committing mass suicide to return as invincible superhuman zombies so that they can terrorize marketplaces and local bars is, to say the least, a ton of fun to watch. I would recommend this to anyone regardless of its timely technical difficulties.

Movie about a biker group called The Living Dead (!!!) who ride around and terrorize people. Tom (Nicky Heson) is the leader of the group and his mom (Beryl Reid) is into the occult. He finds out through her that he can die...and come back to life as a superhuman immortal through some ceremony. He does so and persuades the rest of his gang to kill themselves and come back. This leads to some truly laughable sequences with the gang killing themselves in various ways. My favorite has to be one of the guys (stripped to his underwear) walking to a lake carrying a huge anchor that he's chained to. Then he throws the anchor in the lake to drown! They plan to come back and kill all the policeman, judges etc etc and rule the world...or something.REALLY stupid movie. The plot is outrageous even for a horror film and it's treated with the utmost seriousness. Also there's the horrible 1970s wardrobe with furniture to match (wait till you see Reid's living room). Also George Sanders (in his last role) is terrible and totally wasted in a small role as a butler. To make matters worse ALL the deaths or murders are completely bloodless and the movie quickly becomes boring. The only thing that makes this bearable is most of the acting is good. Henson (who claims he hates the movie) is very good and Reid is excellent as his mother. Mary Larkin also has some good moments as Henson's girlfriend. Still, all in all, this is boring, stupid and completely unmemorable. Gets a 2 for the acting only.

The British are one of the few cultures with enough savvy to pull off a good cult cycle science fiction scenario.This one involves a family of a Satanic nature, the mother of whom is prim and proper, and whose other member, her son, is the leader of a Hellish motorcycle gang.Goerge Sanders is the wild card as the butler figure.The son learns that he can have an immortal and immoral life of evil just by dying, under the right conditions. The catch is a series of rituals along with an unfailing Faith in your resurrection into Evil.He paves the way and convinces the rest of his biker gang to join him. It is a small grass roots gang of 2 women and 5 other men. Most are willing, but a couple of them relent.Ann Michelle excels with a great presence as an evil biker girl. Too bad she wasn't a heroine more often, but the seventies were not a decade of risk taking, despite what people claim. Stereotyping was a seventies staple.Still, this film has a great atmosphere to it, a bit of humor, and some creativity, never detracting from the story line.

This was the final film of George Sanders. Apparently, this film was the one he was working on when he decided to kill himself. Well, after seeing the sort of silly and stupid film this was, I can easily see why Sanders decided to end it all--it must have been to atone for being in this hilariously bad film! PSYCHOMANIA has cult favorite written all over it. You certainly can't accuse this of being a good film, but there is a certain kitschy silliness about it that make it fun. The film begins with an incredibly lame-o biker gang called "The Living Dead"--wow, THAT'S subtle. They spend most of their time acting out in many really dumb and wussy ways. This is definitely NOT a biker gang in the tradition of the Hell's Angels--most like Hell's Wussies. Anyway, the head of the gang has a mother that is into the occult and toads (why toads?!?) and somehow he learns that if he kills himself and believes he's coming back, he can--and be immortal! Once back, Tom convinces the rest of the gang that life is great when you are dead and one by one they start killing themselves. Believe it or not, this is all very funny--and my daughter and I found ourselves laughing at these scenes. Once undead, the zombie bikers look pretty much like anyone else--they just seem to enjoy killing people. Again, it ain't sophisticated, but it is, in a VERY low-brow way, quite funny.So what happens next? Do the undead punks kill off each and every person in the UK? Do they form a band--after all, they already had nice stylish hairdos and clothes!? Do they decide to follow George Sanders' lead? See this film for yourself to find out for certain.PSYCHOMANIA is chock full of silly stunts, psychedelics, incredibly dumb and ineffective police, mumbo-jumbo, frogs and an incredibly deadly earnest style--it takes itself very, very seriously. And, undoubtedly, it's dumb...but funny because of its dumbness. However, it's obviously not a film for everyone--mostly for bad movie fans and for anyone who likes laughing at the 1970s.I'd give the film a 2 for quality, a 4 for the frog and an 8 for being so dang funny--though it's supposed to be a horror film! An overall score of 4 seems reasonable.By the way, was the leading character's mother a toad?! I'm not sure about this...but I think it's the case. Crazy man!