Imagine If You Will Me At 13 Years Old And My First TV In My Own Bedroom ... Imagine Working Hard All Week So I Can Stay Up Late Saturday Night And Watch Late Night TV And "Psychomania" Is The Movie I Watch ... My First (Undead, Zombie) Back From The Dead Movie ... Of Course Not The Movie I Remember In The Dark Of A Late Night Saturday But Still Interesting And A Good Watch ... Yes Campy And Outdated This Movie Never Offers A Dull Moment ...

Okay THIS WAS A WHOLE LOT OF FUN. I knew I was in for SOME kind of treat when it opens up with these grainy, gritty shots of The Living Dead riding through a foggy field on their bikes. Like, this movie is wayyy too cool for me.It's just a funny, silly movie, but it has some dramatic aspects as well. The scene with Tom (Nicky Henson) dancing with his mom is awesome and shortly after we realize she's got connections with some dark forces and helps Tom make a pact with the devil so he and his fellow gang members can commit suicide and then come back from the dead — but only if they truly BELIEVE they will come back.Tom is just carefree in the most destructive sense of the word, and very reminiscent of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. He's all too excited to fly his motorcycle off a bridge so he can come back and TRULY be part of the living dead. His friends and fellow gang members give him THE MOST AMAZING funeral ever — burying him upright, fully dressed, on his motorcycle. Shortly after a complete stranger is cutting through the site — referred to as The Seven Witches for the seven stone structures that represent, duh, seven witches who broke a pact with the devil — when he hears the TRULY creepy sound of a motorcycle enging revving under packed dirt. Out bursts Tom, ready as ever to truly mess things up.Once the rest of the gang learns of this sweet deal, they're eager to join him — all except Abby, his lady love. It's fun to watch each gang member choose their own method of death — including one jumping out the window of a high rise as a police officer watches, truly sticking it to the man — and then they're back in action, too, minus Abby who is way too wigged out by all of this.Tom's mother (played by Beryl Reid) is not psyched about any of this, especially after seeing how her son's main goal in his second shot at "life" is just to be as violent and belligerent as he can, wasting no time between being brought back to life and murdering just a few folks at a local bar. So mom breaks her bargain with Lucifer and turns into a frog herself. Awesome. The rest of the gang, including Tom, are turned into stone right as he attempts to make Abby choose everlasting life with them or death, so now they can chill with the Seven Witches forever.Truly just good, awful fun.

The leader of a group of Hell's Angels, Tom Latham (Nicky Henson), through his devil worshipping mother (Beryl Reid) does a pact with Satan in return for the secret of immortality. He commits suicide by riding his motorcycle off a bridge and returns as an Undead. His fellow bikers follow and they embark upon terrorising the people of their community and vow to bring down the establishment.Yes, that's the synopsis! It is errant nonsense of the first order and anybody encountering it for the first time will think to themselves: "Oh, this will almost certainly be unwatchable junk." I thought exactly the same thing when I first saw this at the excellent National Film Theatre in London back in 2006 as part of the BFI's Flipside season. But as it unfolded I suddenly found myself thinking: "God, this actually works." It is shot straight by the talented director Don Sharp (Witchcraft, Kiss Of The Vampire, The Face Of Fu Manchu) and if anybody but him had made it it would have almost certainly been a dud. It works marvelously as a horror comedy and a number of the sequences like one of the Hell's Angels doing himself in by throwing himself out of a plane without a parachute deliver some breathtaking shocks. However, the most memorable sequence has to be the scene where Tom's friends bury him on his motorcycle. A couple breakdown on the main road as a result of a puncture. The guy makes his way across the fields to get help and he gets the fright of his life when the reactivated Undead Tom bursts up through the earth on his motorbike. The film also features the last performance of George Sanders - he committed suicide soon after this film was made - as Reid's butler, Treadwell. Beryl Reid is delightfully eccentric as Tom's occultist mother while the rest of the youthful cast playing the bikers are perfectly in tune with the nature of the production and go through their parts cheerfully.In summary, this is a film that on first glance may detract you from watching it due to its trashy subject matter. But thanks to skillful handling coupled with some neat shocks and real laughs, Psychomania is without doubt a cult classic and is now available as a DVD - Blue Ray double disc set from the BFI.

Well, here it is, gang. Living proof that you don't need gore, or even a single drop of blood, to create quality horror. Not to say that this film is all that scary. It's just an all around entertaining film. This is Psychomania, a very British production about a biker gang called The Living Dead. All The Living Dead seem to care about is creating havoc for the village they live in. The Leader, Tom wants much more, Tom wants to be immortal, so he can create havoc for the entire world. Tom, like most rich kids, is rebellious, yet cowardly. Tom and his mother, along with the butler, who I guess, is Satan, find the rich boy his immortality, so he'll stop whining. All one needs is to truly believe that if you kill yourself, you will come back, and that's pretty much it. Well, that and a frog. That's all there is to it. Only a creative genius could conjure up a powerful plot such as this. With his valuable, new knowledge, Tom soon ends it all, by driving his motorcycle off a bridge, not before terrorizing the village one last time (as a mortal). After returning from the grave, in dramatic fashion, immortal, as well as invincible, Tom has reached new levels of arrogance, he soon convinces the rest of the gang to join him in the dark side. One by one, what follows is the most creative suicide spree in B-movie history.I dig Psychomania for quite a few reasons. for starters, the score couldn't be more fitting, although, how awesome would a Black Sabbath score have been? Just a thought. For something so amateur, Psychomania comes off very professional, at least, the acting, not so much the story, or character development. Although, the camera work is nice. Psychomania has a certain late 60's rebellious style about it that shows in the semi-witty dialogue. The B-movie cheesiness is more subtle in England, but it's most definitely present. If you don't go into this expecting a masterpiece, Psychomania will most likely be a worthwhile experience. For more in awesome Horror from England, check out Vampyres. for tougher bikers, check you Werewolves On Wheels. In closing, Psychomania might not scare the hell out of you, but it is totally enjoyable, and yet another one of a kind, courtesy of the wonderful world on B-cinema. 8/10