Speaker 1: I smell exhaust, the hot breath of devils in the
Speaker 1: fog of dawn, the noise of a great cat purring
Speaker 1: underneath the earthen mound. They're waking up. Can you see it?
Speaker 1: Through the mist? Pale sprigs of mistletoe entwined with greasy
Speaker 1: drive chains. The high Priest watches his reflection stretched to absurdity,
Speaker 1: across the curve of the mirrored chrome. He is as
Speaker 1: tall as the cliffs. He is as long as the
Speaker 1: worm of dreams. The purring of the cat grows deafening.
Speaker 1: The Priest's grin is wild with that twist of his hand,
Speaker 1: flexing the wrist. Is he wringing a hen's neck to
Speaker 1: adorn the altar of spring? Or is this the spell
Speaker 1: that brings the iron hog to life? Welcome to Stuff
Speaker 1: to Blow your mind production of My Heart Radio. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamp and
Speaker 1: I'm Joe McCormick and Robert I'm so excited today. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited because you you out there. You know if
Speaker 1: you've been listening to Weird House Cinema, that we love
Speaker 1: our implausible genre crossover films. One of my favorite examples
Speaker 1: we've done so far is the niche sub genre represented
Speaker 1: by our back catalog entry Santo and The Treasure of Dracula.
Speaker 1: Of course that would be the supernatural wrestling film. Well,
Speaker 1: today we're finally doing a supernatural biker film, a niche
Speaker 1: subgenre that really holds a strong, powerful, revving place in
Speaker 1: my heart. It gets my motor running. I love it,
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it. Yeah, this one, this
Speaker 1: one is a lot of fun. And I it'd been
Speaker 1: on my list to watch for a while. I know
Speaker 1: you've been talking about it for years, and we we
Speaker 1: occasionally talked about biker films and supernatural biker films, but
Speaker 1: I had not actually watched until this week and it
Speaker 1: was just a total of the light. Just such a
Speaker 1: wonderfully weird film, um and delightfully so. Now you have
Speaker 1: seen other supernatural biker movies, right, Like you've seen Werewolves
Speaker 1: on Wheels. Oh yeah, Werewolves on Wheels, a very American
Speaker 1: supernatural biker film from the same time period. But this,
Speaker 1: this is a very British film we're talking about here today. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: We're Rolves on Wheels is a grosser, sweatier, more guttural
Speaker 1: American Western style, uh supernatural biker film. This supernatural biker
Speaker 1: film is a bit more tweedy and uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know has the the English morning Fog on its back today.
Speaker 1: The movie we're talking about is the nineteen seventy three
Speaker 1: Dish supernatural biker movie Psychomania a k a. The Death Wheelers.
Speaker 1: And uh So, whenever you have a great genre crossover movie,
Speaker 1: you want to identify, like, what are the main streams
Speaker 1: feeding into this? And Robert, if you disagree, let me know.
Speaker 1: But I think the main two things we're getting as
Speaker 1: inputs here are, on one hand, outlaw biker movies, which
Speaker 1: we can talk about in a little more detail in
Speaker 1: a minute, and then the other hand would be like
Speaker 1: British witchcraft horror films allah, the hammer horror movies of
Speaker 1: the late sixties and early seventies. Yes, I think those
Speaker 1: are those are probably the two primary influences. But I
Speaker 1: think it's also worth noting the Avengers DNA in this
Speaker 1: we have some people connected to the Avengers and the Avengers.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with the Avengers TV show, A
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty fun, but being it also
Speaker 1: would it generally featured this sort of idea of contemporary
Speaker 1: weirdness in the world. Uh not unlike what the X
Speaker 1: Files would do later, And I think there's a hint
Speaker 1: of that in this film. Okay. I didn't think about
Speaker 1: that input at all because I've never actually seen The Avengers,
Speaker 1: though I know what it is. This is very different
Speaker 1: than Marvel's The Avengers. This is the British TV show, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one that was eventually made into what one of
Speaker 1: Sean Connery's last films, if not his last film, um,
Speaker 1: one of the last films that they tried to do
Speaker 1: a reboot of it decades ago and it was not successful.
Speaker 1: But the original TV series was often a lot of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Another way of thinking about this movie is, Okay, if
Speaker 1: you've got the precedent of werewolves on wheels in America,
Speaker 1: this is sort of like, uh, druid lytch kings on wheels,
Speaker 1: like undead stone hinge magic demons revving their engines and
Speaker 1: and uh and and doing all the outlaw biker stuff,
Speaker 1: but from beyond the grave. Yes, now. I often turned
Speaker 1: to Michael Weldon's psychotronic video guides for a little guidance
Speaker 1: in the films that we We We we We turned
Speaker 1: to Sometimes I discover a film by looking it is work.
Speaker 1: Other times we'll will be thinking about one and I'll
Speaker 1: see what he had to say about it. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to read his entire mini review for this one,
Speaker 1: but it but one of He basically kicks off his
Speaker 1: review of Psychomania by saying incredible. To say the least,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think it's quite credible. I would let
Speaker 1: this co sign on a loan. Now I want to
Speaker 1: I want to put a note about the title. So
Speaker 1: I think we already alluded to the fact that it
Speaker 1: was also released as The Death Wheelers um, which in
Speaker 1: some ways is a better title for the film. Like
Speaker 1: Death Wheelers, it's you know, death and motorcycles. We're not
Speaker 1: actually sure what Psychomania means in context of this film,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if the title situation here it might
Speaker 1: have to do with the fact that there was another
Speaker 1: film titled Psychomania that was released in nineteen sixty three,
Speaker 1: so ten years earlier, also known as Violent Midnight, who
Speaker 1: was directed by the guy who wrote Horror at Party Beach.
Speaker 1: In that movie is just a murder picture. The nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three Psychomania is so much more, and that that
Speaker 1: is definitely the film we're talking about here today, a
Speaker 1: supernatural biker film. Okay, well, I guess we need to
Speaker 1: dwell on the concept of a biker film for a moment,
Speaker 1: because before you had supernatural biker films, you just had
Speaker 1: the biker genre as a sort of uh fad movie genre.
Speaker 1: And the fifties through the seventies. Yeah, and I guess
Speaker 1: more specifically, so, boy, I guess the big thing here
Speaker 1: is that, first of all, motorcycles are not inherently one
Speaker 1: thing or another, and a motorcycle enthusiasts are not inherently
Speaker 1: one thing or the other. So you have motorcyclists, you
Speaker 1: have motorcycle clubs, but then you also have this area
Speaker 1: that is often referred to as the outlaw motorcycle club
Speaker 1: and that is generally what is dwelt upon in films
Speaker 1: such as these, right. I mean, I'd say for the
Speaker 1: same reason that there are more movies about bank robbers
Speaker 1: than there are about accountants right now. Outlaw motorcycle clubs
Speaker 1: began to form in the late nineteen forties in the
Speaker 1: Western United States, and over time, motorcycle club culture, outlaw
Speaker 1: or or non outlaw, has spread around the world and
Speaker 1: it's it's quite fascinating because what we have here is
Speaker 1: an American subculture, and in the cases of outlaw motorcycle
Speaker 1: gangs and often criminal subculture, that ends up just resonating
Speaker 1: around the world, finding slightly different forms and different cultures,
Speaker 1: um inspiring fiction inspiring myth and and then also in
Speaker 1: turn you have the reality of motorcycle clubs and outlaw
Speaker 1: motorcycle clubs fed by fiction and myth. So we end
Speaker 1: up with a number of different variations of the mythic
Speaker 1: outlaw motorcyclist. You know, we have the noble outlaw, the scoundrel,
Speaker 1: the sort of anti hippie, the rebellious youth, the rebel
Speaker 1: without a cause, et cetera. So, as far as outlaw
Speaker 1: biker films go, we certainly don't have time to list
Speaker 1: them all here, but I want to mention just some
Speaker 1: of the big ones, some of the the precursors to psychomania. Now,
Speaker 1: the first big one, of course, is nineteen fifty threes,
Speaker 1: The Wild One starring Marlon Brando. Even if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen this film, and I have to admit I've never
Speaker 1: watched The Wild One, you've seen the title, you've seen
Speaker 1: the cover, you've seen stills from this or maybe even
Speaker 1: seen a clip from it. It's generally critically well received.
Speaker 1: It was highly influential, and of course a lot of
Speaker 1: low budget exploitation films came in its wake, just for
Speaker 1: just for decades like this, this was a big film.
Speaker 1: But yeah, by the time you get into the sixties,
Speaker 1: you have the counterculture, you have a lot going on. Obviously,
Speaker 1: during the nineteen sixties you also have Hunter S. Thompson's
Speaker 1: book Hell's Angels coming out, which details his you know,
Speaker 1: sort of gonzo journalism experience with the notorious UM Motorcycle Club.
Speaker 1: And uh, and then a lot of stuff comes in
Speaker 1: the wake of that. You have Russ Meyer's Motorcycle in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. I think that was actually before um
Speaker 1: Thompson's book. But then you get The Wild Angels in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six by Roger Corman. Uh, this one, this
Speaker 1: one is actually watch part of this one. I think
Speaker 1: it's a It has a great cast. You've got Peter Fonda,
Speaker 1: Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane ladd Um. Definitely a precursor
Speaker 1: to Easy Writer because it involves some of the same people.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, you get easy Rider in nineteen sixty nine,
Speaker 1: a highly influential hippie biker film directed by Dennis Hopper.
Speaker 1: Terrific film, easy Writer. But but you might be asking, well,
Speaker 1: these are all American films. When did the British films
Speaker 1: come in? Well, you have some notable entries in the
Speaker 1: British biker film um bucket of content. Here you have
Speaker 1: The Leather Boys from sixty four, The Girl on a
Speaker 1: Motorcycle from sixty eight, as well as some early forays
Speaker 1: into horror hybrid biker films, such as The Black Rider
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty four. I don't know, you might be
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this one yet, but I think maybe
Speaker 1: it does. I mean, it does have a motorcyclist in it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how motorcycle club the elements there are.
Speaker 1: But then there's also a sixty three film called The
Speaker 1: Damned which has some sort of motorcyclist element to it
Speaker 1: as well. And then by the nineteen seventies, basically we've
Speaker 1: had so many biker films come out that you see
Speaker 1: this need to create new twists on the genre. You
Speaker 1: can't just put out a biker film, you know, you
Speaker 1: can't just say, oh, well, they're bad boys out there
Speaker 1: right and around on bikes? Well, how bad are they?
Speaker 1: Could they be supernaturally bad? And that's where we get
Speaker 1: stuff like seventy ones were Wolves on Wheels or seventy
Speaker 1: two s blood freak Um as well as this is
Speaker 1: later and this comes after the time period we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But I bought a vampire motorcycle from nine. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know that one. I was looking at it looks good.
Speaker 1: I believe that one's British, so I may have to
Speaker 1: investigate further. But today's picture might well be considered the
Speaker 1: supernatural biker film par excellence. Uh. This, this really takes
Speaker 1: the cake without a doubt. If you want to watch
Speaker 1: supernatural biker horror movies, I think you should start with Psychomania. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and really, I feel like with biker fiction in general,
Speaker 1: we kind of ebbs and flows right. A few years back,
Speaker 1: we had that fairly long running uh Sons of Anarchy
Speaker 1: series which I ended up watching all of Uh. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's entertaining. It's uh, it's it's an interesting Uh,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting show. It's it's it has a lot
Speaker 1: of cheesy elements, it has a lot of elements that
Speaker 1: um or maybe in questionable taste uh at the time
Speaker 1: and certainly by today's standards, but it had a lot
Speaker 1: of things going for it, like essentially trying to do
Speaker 1: a motorcycle gang story that is Shakespearean influence story at
Speaker 1: least shakespeare light uh in its creation. So which Shakespeare
Speaker 1: was it based on? You? Like, well, the basic bones
Speaker 1: of it. They tried to set up a Hamlet thing like, um, young,
Speaker 1: what's his name, Charlie, Charlie you know you know the
Speaker 1: guy Charlie Hunt. Um, yes him, Yes, Yeah, he's basic
Speaker 1: a Hamlet. They set that up, is like he is
Speaker 1: the Hamlet of this biker scenario, and they they don't
Speaker 1: try and like actually hit all the story beats of
Speaker 1: Hamlet exactly, and then they throw a little bit of
Speaker 1: McBeth in there at times. Uh. It's it's amusing, okay,
Speaker 1: But I'm ready for the needle to come back to
Speaker 1: supernatural biker films. That's where we need to go. If
Speaker 1: they want to keep the sons of Anarchy thing going
Speaker 1: that make it vampires, make it where we'll bring that,
Speaker 1: bring that back in. That's that's my two cents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what has there been lately? That really counts. I guess
Speaker 1: there's like the what's that superhero who's like a supernatural biker? Oh,
Speaker 1: night right, Nicholas Cage, Nicolas Cage, night night Right, ghost Rider,
Speaker 1: ghost Right ghost Rider. Yeah, not not right, that's that's
Speaker 1: a different thing altogether. I haven't seen any of those
Speaker 1: except that first movie with Nicolas Cage, which I recall
Speaker 1: being hilarious. I think Peter Fonda shows up in one
Speaker 1: of those. Oh does he Yeah, Yeah, that that's sort
Speaker 1: of rings a bell. Maybe it was in that first one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a fun inclusion. It's thoughtful to include Peter Fonda
Speaker 1: in it. The main thing I remember about that one
Speaker 1: is that the that kid who's in American Beauty is
Speaker 1: the villain in it, and he's some kind of monster.
Speaker 1: And there's a part where he's like in the middle
Speaker 1: of the desert and he just walks right up to
Speaker 1: the camera and looks into the camera and goes he
Speaker 1: like opens his mouth and a bunch of teeth and
Speaker 1: stuff come out. Well that that sound. That sounds great,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that character will be back, though they'll
Speaker 1: they'll create some other uh what do you say? His
Speaker 1: name was Death not death Writer? Night writer, night writer, ghostwriter, ghostwriter. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, if you can't figure out the elevator
Speaker 1: pitch based on everything we've already said, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much help we're going to be other than the
Speaker 1: Lynch King rides. It's it's undead bikers. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and listen to the trailer, and I think, like last week,
Speaker 1: we might just let the trailer play in its entirety
Speaker 1: because it's wonderful. It's a it's the same year as
Speaker 1: last week selection, so it makes sense or problem makers
Speaker 1: as long as they live of their return from beyond
Speaker 1: the grave with superhuman powers, unleashing an unholy reign of
Speaker 1: terror that holds an entire community in the grip of psychomania.
Speaker 1: Psychomania everybody dies, don't there? But some come back? How
Speaker 1: do the dead come back? Mother? When you die, you've
Speaker 1: got to believe that you're going to come back. Wow?
Speaker 1: Can you kill yourself? That's right off the grade. I'm
Speaker 1: going You can only die once. After that, nothing and
Speaker 1: nobody canna harm you. Oh no, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1: I must stop him? You can't, I must, I can.
Speaker 1: What happened? You're not dead? That's what I was trying
Speaker 1: to tell you to, I do want to die good
Speaker 1: after them, and you know what you will become, and
Speaker 1: that it will be for all eternity. You can only
Speaker 1: die once. After that, nothing and nobody can harm you. Cycle.
Speaker 1: One thing about this movie is it's just so British.
Speaker 1: It has this film of Britishness all over it. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it just smells like baked beans. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a can of hinds baked beans driving a motorcycle
Speaker 1: through a round about it And and it's also got
Speaker 1: that wonderful like the inner cutting between the violent, uh
Speaker 1: manic parts on the road where they're out, you know,
Speaker 1: riding around harassing motorists and all that on the motorway,
Speaker 1: and then and then contrasting that with the indoor scenes
Speaker 1: where like they go to a pub or they go
Speaker 1: into somebody's house and it has this amazing quaint stuffiness
Speaker 1: of early seventies Britain. Uh It's yeah, it's it's just tremendous. Well,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting twist if you've if you're used to
Speaker 1: seeing mostly American biker films, there, any biker film is
Speaker 1: gonna have scenes where the bikers are messing with the squares.
Speaker 1: But yes, more often than not in your American biker films,
Speaker 1: these are taking place in rural situations, you know, say
Speaker 1: like a gas station. Uh often, So it's often, you know,
Speaker 1: very rural individuals who are bedeviled by the bikers. And
Speaker 1: in this case we get just it's not even like
Speaker 1: rural Britain person. I mean, it's not London obviously, but
Speaker 1: it's um, you know, it's it's it's in town or
Speaker 1: it's you know, on the street surrounding town. But it's
Speaker 1: the British way of life that is threatened by the
Speaker 1: bikers as opposed to the like American Midwest or or
Speaker 1: or sort of desert community kind of vibe. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but I think it's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: town in the southwest of England. Um, I think it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be a town in like Wiltshire or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm saying that right, Wiltshire, Wiltshire,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But yeah, there there is a thing
Speaker 1: that definitely that they do in this movie that a
Speaker 1: lot of outlaw biker movies have to do. Even non supernatural,
Speaker 1: utterly mundane outlaw biker movies have to have a scene
Speaker 1: of the bikers riding around knocking things over in some
Speaker 1: public place, and in this movie they they do it
Speaker 1: in a grocery store, and they do it in the
Speaker 1: middle of a town square, which makes me wonder was
Speaker 1: it actually a common occurrence for outlaw biker gangs at
Speaker 1: the time and I don't know, the early seventies to
Speaker 1: just ride around in public places knocking things over, saying
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be upright, and I'll make it sideway is
Speaker 1: or is this merely symbolic, like a way of showing
Speaker 1: them causing chaos that can be accomplished on screen in
Speaker 1: a single scene. I don't know. Uh, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if if actual bikers, actual outlaw bikers, engage in
Speaker 1: this kind of thing, because certainly there are accounts of
Speaker 1: outlaw bikers engaging in in all manner of criminal activities.
Speaker 1: I guess you know, the kinds of things you would
Speaker 1: see with any type of organized crime, right, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: organized crime smuggling things like that. You don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of, say New York Times articles about them just
Speaker 1: knocking stuff over in grocery stores. But this, this reminds me.
Speaker 1: I was reading an interview or part of an interview
Speaker 1: with the lead singer of Electric Wizard. Uh, like what
Speaker 1: his name? I just just oh Born, I think yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And doom metal band, Yeah, doom metal band. Uh, stoner
Speaker 1: band of kind of vibe and uh there was a
Speaker 1: quote from it that I want to read here just
Speaker 1: because I thought it was amazing. He says, Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know why isn't venerated in the same way as
Speaker 1: the wicker Man or witch Finder general. There was a
Speaker 1: whole generation of us who grew up watching it on TV.
Speaker 1: In Wimborne, there used to be a safe Ways that's
Speaker 1: like a grocery like we've seen in this film, with
Speaker 1: an entrance on one end and an exit right at
Speaker 1: the other. We used to bike right through it. On
Speaker 1: BMX is kicking stuff over it was called doing a psychomania.
Speaker 1: That's perfect. Oh no, oh no, the kids getting bad idea.
Speaker 1: They're imitating an act of violence they saw on television
Speaker 1: and what they were watching is psychomania. Well, it comes
Speaker 1: back to this idea of the motorcycle club, the outline
Speaker 1: motorcycle club in myth and in fiction and in reality,
Speaker 1: and how these things all feed into each other. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least I guess it wasn't violence against people. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't advocate knocking over pyramids of cans of baked beans,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but you know, I guess you gotta do
Speaker 1: it sometimes. That's one of the great things about this
Speaker 1: film though, is that, yes, the characters do engage in
Speaker 1: some heinous acts of violence, mostly off screen, but they
Speaker 1: all so just do some very low level criminal mischief
Speaker 1: in this just yeah, knocking over stuff, um, like mind
Speaker 1: calling in traffic, Yeah, name calling and traffic just minor
Speaker 1: assaults on the British way of life. And also murder.
Speaker 1: Also murder, so it's murder or like pulling up beside
Speaker 1: somebody in the truck and going yan. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: kind of alright, So we talk about some of the
Speaker 1: people in this film, since we're talking about about the
Speaker 1: people here absolutely. Now is it true that this was
Speaker 1: directed by somebody who had done a bunch of Hammer
Speaker 1: horror films? Yeah, at least a few. This is. The
Speaker 1: director on this picture was Don Sharpe, who lived nine
Speaker 1: through two thousand and eleven, Australian born British director, probably
Speaker 1: best known for his Hammer films, including sixty three is
Speaker 1: the Kiss of The Vampire sixty four is The Devil
Speaker 1: Ship Pirates and ra Sputin the Mad Monk from nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six. I believe this is This is one that
Speaker 1: our producers, Seth is quite fond of. Oh yeah, was this?
Speaker 1: Does this one actually have Christopher Lee as Resputant? It does? Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've got to see that. I love a good portrayal
Speaker 1: of rescputing. One of my favorites, if I've never mentioned
Speaker 1: it on this show before is uh. He doesn't get
Speaker 1: all that much screen time, but his scenes are fabulous.
Speaker 1: So there's a movie, uh, from the seventies called Nicholas
Speaker 1: and Alexandra that's about the Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
Speaker 1: and all that. Uh. And it has Tom Baker, who
Speaker 1: played the doctor on Doctor Who as rest Sputant. And
Speaker 1: he is just awesome, just devastating. He will he will
Speaker 1: turn your brain into a boiled ham. His scenes will
Speaker 1: will just beat you into submission. You'll be watching without blinking.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I looked at some screenshots of it.
Speaker 1: It looks it looks pretty great. Yeah. Now. Sharp also
Speaker 1: directed not the first sequel to the Fly, but the
Speaker 1: second Fly sequel, The Return of the Fly. In ninety.
Speaker 1: He also did a film titled Bear Island in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine, um, which I believe involves bears. And he
Speaker 1: also directed three episodes of the original The Avengers series,
Speaker 1: which we cited here. Oh okay, some things are coming
Speaker 1: together here, Hammer, Horror and The Avengers. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on to the screenwriters here. There's are No Diso,
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen sixteen through nineteen nine, American screenwriter who
Speaker 1: also pinned the seventy two UK Spanish co production Horror Express,
Speaker 1: which is a is a wonderful little film starring Christopher Lee,
Speaker 1: Peter Cushing, Telly Savalis. Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait,
Speaker 1: is this the one where they extract the image of
Speaker 1: the killer from someone's eye? Yes, And there's also some
Speaker 1: sort of like sort of a Neanderthal monster wandering around
Speaker 1: the train. It has a couple of weird elements going
Speaker 1: around in it, but it's it's it's quite quite amusing.
Speaker 1: I saw it several years ago. Yeah. So the the
Speaker 1: dan that the the I scene is that what like
Speaker 1: the last image of person saw before they died is
Speaker 1: like imprinted on their retina, and somehow they extract that
Speaker 1: from the Victim. Yeah, and uh, there's actually an older
Speaker 1: episode of stuff to blow your mind when I did
Speaker 1: with with Christian where we we get into this idea
Speaker 1: and how this idea kind of traveled around and scientific
Speaker 1: and pseudo scientific uh groups for a while. Now, that's
Speaker 1: just one of the screenwriters. The other is Julian Zimmitt,
Speaker 1: another American. I believe. Zim had also worked on Horror
Speaker 1: Express and various pictures through the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: this being his final film credit. Now, the main character
Speaker 1: in this film, I guess you could argue about who
Speaker 1: the main character is, but one of the main characters
Speaker 1: is a is a very naughty motorcycle youth named Tom Latham.
Speaker 1: And he's played by an actor named Nicki Henson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nicky Henson, Who's Who's certainly an actor I've seen before,
Speaker 1: but I really wasn't that familiar with him. He lived
Speaker 1: through nineteen British actor with a long career and britis
Speaker 1: film and television. And I'd say the big titles worth
Speaker 1: mentioning our two thousand and fives, Uh, Syriana. This was
Speaker 1: a film with George Clooney in it. He also did
Speaker 1: three episodes of Dalton Abbey. So you Downton Nabby viewers,
Speaker 1: if you remember a character named Charles Grigg, that's that's
Speaker 1: our Nikki. I had to go ask Rachel who if
Speaker 1: she remembered who he was in the show, and she
Speaker 1: did figure out who he was, but now I can't
Speaker 1: remember what she told me. Yeah, my my, my wife
Speaker 1: did not remember this character. But I looked up a
Speaker 1: scene with him, and he looks he looks fun and
Speaker 1: I think he plays at a veteran of the theater
Speaker 1: or something in it. Oh wait, yes, now I remember
Speaker 1: what it is, okay, um, I think if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: she said that he is a former vaudeville performing partner
Speaker 1: with like the head butler guy at the at the house,
Speaker 1: at the at the manor, and uh, every and he
Speaker 1: comes back and he like threatens or something. He says
Speaker 1: like he's like, if you don't pay me money, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let everybody know that you used to be stage
Speaker 1: performer and that you weren't always so so civilized. All right, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the clip I looked at it looked fun. It looks
Speaker 1: like a fun performance worthy of of an actor who
Speaker 1: certainly had a had a very dramatic voice when he
Speaker 1: wanted to. Though in this movie. I mean, he's perfect
Speaker 1: for the role. I love him in this, but he's
Speaker 1: he does he's not He's not playing it in a
Speaker 1: serious way. This entire performance is one incredibly extended smirk. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's one sequence where he is afraid
Speaker 1: and frightened and seems to oh that's true, yeah, but
Speaker 1: then he gets over that really quickly. Um. Now, he
Speaker 1: was also on east Enders, which I think a lot
Speaker 1: of British actors work. But he was also in such
Speaker 1: genre pictures as sixty eight, which Finder General, which came
Speaker 1: up a second ago, and then also that one was
Speaker 1: one that starred Vincent Price, and I think I've alluded
Speaker 1: to Vincent Price's uh facial hair in that before um
Speaker 1: uh he caused the Gandalf from the Soviet Lord of
Speaker 1: the Rings looked like which Finder General exactly. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: also Nicky Hinson was in seventy four's Old Dracula, starring
Speaker 1: David Niven as Old Dracula. I have not seen it,
Speaker 1: but it sounds sounds interesting. What's the premise there wasn't
Speaker 1: Dracula already old? I think? But now he's even older.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but clearly I think you're running out
Speaker 1: of Dracula ideas when you're just when you bust out
Speaker 1: a whole Dracula. I don't know. Maybe it's great, and
Speaker 1: I just I'm not giving it a chance. It's like
Speaker 1: that Key and Peel skit with the pitch meeting for
Speaker 1: Gremlins too. They're just coming up with different ideas for Dracula.
Speaker 1: What about electricity Dracula? How about old Dracula, Old Dracula.
Speaker 1: It's in the movie Vegetable Dracula. Yeah. But but Nicky Hinson, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's good in this uh like you say, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's largely one note except for the one scene. But
Speaker 1: he's very charismatic. Um, he's dressed in leather the whole time.
Speaker 1: He has this kind of like a big chest, narrow
Speaker 1: waste thing going on. So he has this, uh, this
Speaker 1: youthful vigor to him that really works in the role.
Speaker 1: He has a great Nigel Toughnell mullet. Yes, yes, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of great early seventies hair in this picture.
Speaker 1: Longside burns everything, alright. So he plays Tom Latham. But
Speaker 1: his character's mother is also an important character. This is
Speaker 1: Miss Latham, played by Beryl Reid, who lived nineteen nineteen
Speaker 1: through nineteen. An acclaimed British stage actor, she won a
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven Tony Award for Best Actress in uh
Speaker 1: in the play The Killing of Sister George. She was
Speaker 1: also in the film adaptation of that play, and other
Speaker 1: credits include the original Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy TV series
Speaker 1: or perhaps limited mini series that starred Alec Guinness, and
Speaker 1: she was also in the nineteen eighty three Graham Chapman
Speaker 1: pirate film Yellow Beard. Now, before we started recording today,
Speaker 1: we were talking about a song, a folk song that
Speaker 1: I really love. Is one of my favorites called nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty two vincent black Lightning by the by the British
Speaker 1: singer songwriter Richard Thompson. Um it's a wonderful song, but
Speaker 1: it is a song about a a redheaded girl who
Speaker 1: falls in love with a bad motorcycle boy and then
Speaker 1: when he dies from a shotgun blast to the chest,
Speaker 1: he gives her his motorcycle to ride, his nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: two vincent black Lightning, And immediately I thought of this
Speaker 1: movie because this is a movie about a redheaded girl
Speaker 1: who's in love with a bad motorcycle boy who dies. Yes,
Speaker 1: the character is Abby Holman and she's played by the
Speaker 1: actor Mary Larkin. This was is was an Irish actor.
Speaker 1: H did a fair amount of film and TV work.
Speaker 1: Nothing that really stands out to me personally in her filmography,
Speaker 1: but I think British TV viewers may have some notes
Speaker 1: for us on this. But she has a very nice
Speaker 1: film presence, uh in this motion picture. I'll also say,
Speaker 1: I want to point this out. Her name is Abby
Speaker 1: and you frequently get reminded of this because she has
Speaker 1: a leather jacket. She's in the gang, and she has
Speaker 1: her name on it. And I love a movie that
Speaker 1: has name tags. It's it was. It was a lot
Speaker 1: easier to keep track of everybody in this film. I
Speaker 1: wish more pictures had name tax like this. What's that
Speaker 1: scene where for most of the movie you don't hear
Speaker 1: most of the names of the characters the biker gang,
Speaker 1: But then there's one scene where undead Tom is just
Speaker 1: looking at all of them, one in a row and
Speaker 1: saying their names, and the sequence is hilarious. It's something
Speaker 1: he says something like gash Hatchet, Bertram Yep, chopped Meat
Speaker 1: is another uh huh, yep. I think chop Meat is
Speaker 1: the the folk singer of the group that I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I mean I don't think the actor was
Speaker 1: actually a folk singer. But there's a scene later on
Speaker 1: where we get a folk song, and I think chop Meat,
Speaker 1: out of his leather jacket is the one that's supposed
Speaker 1: to be playing that song. Could be wrong. It's such
Speaker 1: a gentle tune, you wouldn't think that it that it
Speaker 1: comes from the mind of a crazed motorcycle killer. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a scene where they're mostly dressed like hippies, as
Speaker 1: if the film is trying to say all of us
Speaker 1: have within us, both the hippie and the biker, both
Speaker 1: the both the peace loving hippie and the necromantic, uh
Speaker 1: druid biker Wraith. These are both aspects of the same
Speaker 1: human soul, the peaceful artist whose very voice is love,
Speaker 1: and then the the motorcycle nightmare who will who will
Speaker 1: run you down on the motorway? Yes, Now, if Abbie
Speaker 1: is the good girl in this the bad girl is
Speaker 1: Jane played by Anne Um and Michelle I believe her
Speaker 1: name was born n Other credits include House of Ripped
Speaker 1: Accord from seventy four, Haunted from seventy seven, and interestingly enough, uh,
Speaker 1: this actor was once married to a professional British motorcycle
Speaker 1: racer by the name of Richard may So uh just
Speaker 1: uh Normally not really worth mentioning what actors spouses did,
Speaker 1: but in this case I found that interesting. She's also
Speaker 1: fantastic in this because much like Nicki Hinson, she has
Speaker 1: a smirk that mocks life itself. Yeah, she is, like said,
Speaker 1: she's the bad girl on this. She does not really
Speaker 1: questioned the whole um uh necromancy scheme that becomes central
Speaker 1: to the plot. She embraces it early on. Now we're
Speaker 1: not going to go through all the actors playing all
Speaker 1: the bikers, you know, um they're like chop meat and
Speaker 1: horse Cross and so forth. But Bertram was played by
Speaker 1: this actor by the name of Roy holder Born and
Speaker 1: I believe still still alive. Another actor with solid British
Speaker 1: TV and film credits, including two thousand ones, War Horse,
Speaker 1: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood from eleven and various big TV
Speaker 1: series like east Enders, Coronation Street, Pride and Prejudice, sens Insensibility, etcetera.
Speaker 1: He played the character Kreelper, a gun runner who worked
Speaker 1: for a mercenary who worked for another villain named Morgus
Speaker 1: on four episodes of Doctor Who in the nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: and he plays Enoch in the star studded nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: seven Jesus of Nazareth mini series. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: seen this, but I long remember seeing it on video
Speaker 1: shelves as a kid. It's the one like the kind
Speaker 1: of a big eyed Jesus on the front. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I know which one this is, right,
Speaker 1: It's it's worth looking up just to see who all
Speaker 1: was in it. It was again a star studied a project,
Speaker 1: a huge Jesus movie. Okay, all right, Uh we have
Speaker 1: a we have a police inspector in this film, representing
Speaker 1: law and order. Hate the law, you know, no respect
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah. The chief inspector in this is played
Speaker 1: by Robert Hardy, who lived through seventeen. This is Cornelius
Speaker 1: Fudge himself from the Harry Potter films. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: remember who that is. Who's Cornelius Fudge. He was the
Speaker 1: head of the Ministry of Magic, like the President of
Speaker 1: the Wizards or something. Yeah, like, but I mean, it's like,
Speaker 1: it's basically like, this is an actor who played authority,
Speaker 1: British authority figure as well, and so in this he
Speaker 1: plays one, and in Harry Potter he played a different one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He he disapproves of your behavior, whatever it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was also in Angles and Sensibility. He was on
Speaker 1: All Creatures great and small, and he sure played Churchill
Speaker 1: a lot. I saw Churchill popping up a lot of
Speaker 1: his filmography. Yeah. He was also in a seventy two
Speaker 1: demon possession film titled Demons of the Mind. Now, another
Speaker 1: big connection here is that this bizarre, undead biker horror
Speaker 1: movie was the last film of the legendary actor George Sanders. Yes,
Speaker 1: George Sanders playing Shadwell the Butler. Uh, though we suspect
Speaker 1: he's much more than a butler, the warlock butler. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He lived nineteen o six through nineteen seventy two, so he,
Speaker 1: uh you know, died the same year this film rap production. Apparently,
Speaker 1: English actor known for major roles in the forties and
Speaker 1: fifties pictures like All About Eve, Rebecca, The Picture of
Speaker 1: Dorian Gray, and man Hunt. Later audiences might know him
Speaker 1: best for his voice in Walt Disney's The Jungle Book,
Speaker 1: the you know, the old animated Jungle Book. He is
Speaker 1: the voice of shier Khan, the tiger. I think the
Speaker 1: hawking voice, not the singing voice, is there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's different different credits on those, but
Speaker 1: the talking voice is definitely Sanders. Uh. He also played
Speaker 1: Mr Freeze in the first two appearances of that character
Speaker 1: in the old Batman series. Perfect. Yeah, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of other notable actors who played that same character. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's a real lightning rod for talent that show. Um.
Speaker 1: Because Vincent Price also popped up on Batman. Oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot about that. Who did he play? Was he the
Speaker 1: Riddler or something? No? No, no, that would have been great.
Speaker 1: Now he played Egghead, this character with just a giant Egghead.
Speaker 1: I've forgotten. It's terrible. It's like, it's should we should
Speaker 1: we do a digression here about how bad most of
Speaker 1: the Batman villains are almost all you know what. In fact,
Speaker 1: they're like the Gremlins once again in that Gremlins pitch
Speaker 1: meeting sketch. Um, because they're all like I remember this
Speaker 1: when I was playing one of those Batman video games
Speaker 1: years ago, that allows you to sort of like collect
Speaker 1: a catalog of who all the villains are. And you've
Speaker 1: got the big ones. You all know, the Joker and
Speaker 1: the Riddler and all that. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Riddler is different enough from the Joker, but anyway, once
Speaker 1: you get into the second tier of Batman villains, it's
Speaker 1: all just like clock Man. He is obsessed with clocks
Speaker 1: and kills people with schemes that resemble clocks. Um, you
Speaker 1: know mad Hatter, who is obsessed with the Mad Hatter
Speaker 1: character in Alice in Wonderland. They're they're all like extremely literal.
Speaker 1: They're all you know, electricity gremlin. Yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 1: It's like that. It's like electricity criminal, Riddle criminal, clock criminal.
Speaker 1: Because essentially, like Batman is a detective, he solves crimes.
Speaker 1: He needs a criminal to go up against. But you
Speaker 1: have to put these at least these spins on them
Speaker 1: and uh and of course, over time, various creative minds
Speaker 1: have found interesting ways to make those ideas more potent.
Speaker 1: Take Mr Freeze for example, Like Freeze criminal is not
Speaker 1: a very interesting concept, but certainly by the time of
Speaker 1: like the animated Batman series. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, when
Speaker 1: we were kids. You know, they advice. Yeah, they found
Speaker 1: ways to to make this just a tragic and romantic figure,
Speaker 1: you know, just a fascinating character with cool, freezing criminal powers. Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to be clear, I'm not dissing Dr Freeze
Speaker 1: especially or Mr Freeze. Even though he is a doctor.
Speaker 1: He goes by Mr Freeze, even though he has a PhD. Well,
Speaker 1: you know he takes that do no harm thing seriously.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know PhD. I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but he's when he's freezing, he's Mr Freeze right exactly,
Speaker 1: that's his Yeah, off off the clock. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is George saunders last picture, and by all accounts,
Speaker 1: he was not in a good place at this point
Speaker 1: in his life. Uh, probably not performing at his peak.
Speaker 1: But he's still a great presence in the film. I
Speaker 1: you know, he's still he still creates some magic on
Speaker 1: the screen. Robbie, I know you always like to talk
Speaker 1: about the mu usic and the music in this movie
Speaker 1: is one of the big selling points. There are some
Speaker 1: great uh folk songs in it. There's some great psychedelic guitar.
Speaker 1: It's all over the place. Yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a little bit funky in places. There's some I
Speaker 1: guess what you got like fuzztone rock notes in it. Um,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's it's a wonderful score. And this is
Speaker 1: definitely a score that's available and has long been available
Speaker 1: in various formats. It is the work of John Cameron
Speaker 1: born British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He did a
Speaker 1: number of film scores for for various pictures over the years.
Speaker 1: One that stuck out to me, and this may not
Speaker 1: be his crowning achievement. I don't remember what the music
Speaker 1: was like in this, but Frankenstein starring Randy Quait as
Speaker 1: the Monster and Patrick Bergen as the doctor. Uh. This
Speaker 1: one I think debuted on TNT on cable back when
Speaker 1: I as a kid, and I may have mentioned on
Speaker 1: the show before because when this came out and was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is Frankenstein. This is not the first
Speaker 1: time you've brought this one up. In fact, you've brought
Speaker 1: it up almost to scold me for like making jokes
Speaker 1: about Randy Quaid. Now you can joke about Randy Quaid
Speaker 1: all you want. In terms of his acting, though Randy
Speaker 1: Quaid I have found him quite good in a few
Speaker 1: different pictures. Um, but and this was one of him
Speaker 1: playing playing the monster. But as as for the music, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is really good stuff from Cameron. Um uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about the folk ballot in a bit. Originally,
Speaker 1: the tracks off of this score, witch Hunt and Living
Speaker 1: Dead were actually released as a single on vinyl, with
Speaker 1: Cameron taking on the moniker a frog. Now there is
Speaker 1: a major frog in this movie. I honestly could not
Speaker 1: understand what the magical significance of the frog was. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can help me understand that. As we talked about
Speaker 1: the plot a little bit more, ye will get it
Speaker 1: as a froggy film. The Psychomania gets froggy. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: before we move forward the first let's have let's have
Speaker 1: just another sample of that music, the score to Psychomania. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so good, it's so good. I'm feeling the last
Speaker 1: vestiges of respect for law and humanity fading away. I
Speaker 1: am about to go out and do evil, do exactly
Speaker 1: as I will. Well, let's let's go ahead and uh
Speaker 1: and talk about the film. Let's get into the plot,
Speaker 1: because this one has it's against so many weird elements.
Speaker 1: It's it's really worth dwelling on. Well, so the very
Speaker 1: opening is just divine it. I love the first few
Speaker 1: minutes of this movie. It's once again druids on wheels.
Speaker 1: It's just bikers doing slow most stunts in the grass
Speaker 1: amidst an ancient stone circle while this acid wizard guitar
Speaker 1: music just drips in the background. I love, love, love this.
Speaker 1: Filmmakers out there, if you want to make movies today
Speaker 1: that I will just like gush about incessantly to get
Speaker 1: this vibe, recreate it, make more of this kind of thing. Um.
Speaker 1: I believe that the setting here so they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're riding around doing bike stunts at a stone circle.
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be at a place called
Speaker 1: Avebury Hinge, at least according to some not super authoritative
Speaker 1: looking articles I was reading. So I'm not certain about this.
Speaker 1: But if this is supposed to be a very hinge
Speaker 1: that is a Neolithic stone monument site much like Stoneheinge,
Speaker 1: this one's in the southwest of England, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they are actually truly gunning their hogs through
Speaker 1: the real megaliths or if this is a set made
Speaker 1: to look like it. If it is a set, I'm impressed, Like,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty convincing. They may actually have been ripping
Speaker 1: me through a priceless year old ritual site. I can't tell,
Speaker 1: but these scenes are impressed. It sets the tone for
Speaker 1: the picture. Oh yeah, yeah, so slow mobike jumps crossing
Speaker 1: in and out. I imagine they were probably actually going
Speaker 1: at pretty low speed, but then by playing it back
Speaker 1: in slow motion, you can create the impression that at
Speaker 1: full speed they would have been doing something incredibly dangerous. Um. So,
Speaker 1: so this is the biker gang at the heart of
Speaker 1: the movie. They're known as the Living Dead. I adore
Speaker 1: their outfits. They've got these skull helmets and they all
Speaker 1: wear black leather motorcycle gear except for Jane, who wears
Speaker 1: red leather and white gloves. And these are just some bad,
Speaker 1: bad English youths whose brains have been defiled by overdoses
Speaker 1: of black leather, carbon monoxide and moral nihilism. They do
Speaker 1: what they want and they care not for man's law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these outfits are incredible. If you if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: clips from this film, look it out because the design
Speaker 1: and the baker helmets just looks great. Again, it looks
Speaker 1: like a skull And then they're wearing most of them
Speaker 1: again are wearing head to toe black leather and it
Speaker 1: says of course living dead on the back. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then they have their name tags on the front or yeah,
Speaker 1: which which is a great thing for criminals to have, right.
Speaker 1: So the first thing we see them doing is just uh,
Speaker 1: dangerously harassing people driving on the on the on the back,
Speaker 1: you know, the country roads. And uh, I think they
Speaker 1: actually kill a guy like that, or at least they
Speaker 1: knock him out, like they scare him until he's in
Speaker 1: an accident and is thrown from his vehicle. So they're
Speaker 1: just out just randomly murdering innocent people. And they've got
Speaker 1: their name aimes on their clothes. Yet, this film mostly
Speaker 1: has a very sanitized view of how death works because
Speaker 1: mostly things happen, people become very still and they're dead.
Speaker 1: It's weirdly sanitized for a film that is otherwise uh,
Speaker 1: you know just on paper is obsessed with death. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's not a bloody movie. It's actually it's it's it's
Speaker 1: very clean. Yeah. Uh. And there are a number, like
Speaker 1: pretty much all outlaw biker films. You've got to have
Speaker 1: just these scenes of the characters being lawless and dangerous
Speaker 1: and and and harassing other people. I would call these
Speaker 1: scenes to take a coinage from Polly Walnuts Mayhem. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got to have your Mayhem sequences. And so so
Speaker 1: that's what we get right at the get go. They
Speaker 1: go straight from the stone Circle stunts to to riding
Speaker 1: around doing mayhem and uh. And so the leader played
Speaker 1: by Nicky Henson is this guy named Tom Latham. I
Speaker 1: already mentioned that he is sort of like Nigel tough
Speaker 1: Knell of Spinal Tap, but I would describe him as
Speaker 1: a cross between Nigel tough Knell and Malcolm McDowell and
Speaker 1: a clockwork orange picture. Those two in a in a
Speaker 1: ven diagram, and then you've got Tom. Yeah. But La
Speaker 1: la la a lot more likable, more likable than perhaps
Speaker 1: any Malcolm McDowell character has ever Sure. Yeah, Now, of
Speaker 1: course it's being a biker film. There are lots of
Speaker 1: shots of bikers biking. Um, one thing that sets us
Speaker 1: apart from let's say, less well crafted biker films. And
Speaker 1: I've seen a few of these where sometimes you'll have
Speaker 1: a camera set up and you'll just watch the bikers
Speaker 1: approach for like a mile in the desert, you know, Um,
Speaker 1: werewolves on wheels does that, Yeah, where it's just like, wow,
Speaker 1: we're really gonna watch this for a while. They set
Speaker 1: up this shot and we're gonna we're gonna see all
Speaker 1: of it. But and there there's maybe like one shot
Speaker 1: in this where it felt like it went on a
Speaker 1: bit long. But otherwise they did a good job of
Speaker 1: of just giving us interesting footage of our gang terrorizing
Speaker 1: the roads. So a sin that is often committed by
Speaker 1: B movies is padding, trying to insert extra stuff to
Speaker 1: pad out the run time and get to full feature length.
Speaker 1: That is a thing I would not accuse this movie of.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a lot of padding. I think
Speaker 1: it moves at a pretty nice pace and there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of just watching people drive around with no purpose. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if I think if some people were confused by
Speaker 1: the film and they might say, well, maybe we needed
Speaker 1: more of the film to explain these things, I think
Speaker 1: that I think that would be the wrong instinct, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff, like the frogs, that we
Speaker 1: don't completely understand. There's a cryptic nature to it, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that is how it should be. Given
Speaker 1: the magic that's taking place here. We're not supposed to
Speaker 1: understand frog necromancy. It is supposed to be a mystery
Speaker 1: to us. I almost forgot about the frogs. We got
Speaker 1: to talk about the frog So we do the mayhem
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and then the next scene is we
Speaker 1: get Tom and Abby. Abby is another member of the gang.
Speaker 1: Uh and and Tom is her boyfriend, and they're hanging
Speaker 1: out in a graveyard and uh and Tom catches a
Speaker 1: frog in the graveyard and he says hello, little green friend,
Speaker 1: and uh and Abby. It's funny because Abby seems like
Speaker 1: she does not really belong in this gang. She just
Speaker 1: seems like an extremely nice young lady who would not
Speaker 1: be out doing highway murders the rest of the gang
Speaker 1: or obviously these immoral, lawless creeps. And and Abby just
Speaker 1: seems like like she's she's just a nice girl. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's going on there, but it makes
Speaker 1: sense because she's she I think of it. Chilli becomes
Speaker 1: the main character. Um, and you're only five minutes into
Speaker 1: the movie before Tom is saying to Abby, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's kill ourselves and become some kind of cursed, undead monsters,
Speaker 1: and and Abby's like, oh, Tom, not that again. So
Speaker 1: apparently he brings this up all the time every time
Speaker 1: they get together. He's like, what do you say, let's
Speaker 1: become undead. Uh. It's also kind of strange how much
Speaker 1: she seems to take this in stride, like she's just
Speaker 1: like that's silly, not like it doesn't really bother her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but clearly yea, he talks about it a lot. This
Speaker 1: is his thing, like it was probably I don't know
Speaker 1: if they had yearbooks in uh in Britain at this time,
Speaker 1: but if they had one, he would be most likely
Speaker 1: to to destroy oneself and become an undead monster. Right.
Speaker 1: So Tom goes back to his house, which is a
Speaker 1: gigantic mansion. Wouldn't you know it? This good for nothing
Speaker 1: moto Rascal is actually a posh rich kid, and so
Speaker 1: they're at the house. You find out his family. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much to explain the family situation. So
Speaker 1: the family is him and his mother and their butler, Shadwell,
Speaker 1: and his mother and Shadwell seemed to be into evil
Speaker 1: magic there. They're into the occult. They do seances and
Speaker 1: other occult stuff in the house. And Uh, Tom's father
Speaker 1: has passed away because it's implied he tried to do
Speaker 1: some kind of dangerous evil ritual and failed and died
Speaker 1: in the process. Right and possibly like permanently warped room
Speaker 1: in their house with foul magic from beyond. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: not completely explained, and I don't want the film to
Speaker 1: explain it more. I like that it's so cryptic. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a weird house in a weird
Speaker 1: family setting because Shadwell is not really he's the butler.
Speaker 1: He's not, he's not his father. But he also there's
Speaker 1: a there's clear from the very beginning that Shadwell is
Speaker 1: not just a butler. There is there's a power to him,
Speaker 1: there's knowledge there, and he's he's only so involved in
Speaker 1: the actual affairs of the family. Like I noticed that
Speaker 1: a lot of times that maybe in a very sort
Speaker 1: of proper uh you know, English butler way, Uh, one
Speaker 1: of them will express an emotion and he'll comment upon it,
Speaker 1: but he's not really expressing an opinion one way or
Speaker 1: the other. Yes, the circumspect removed jeeves Ish editorial position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's like Jeeves. But if Jeeves were an
Speaker 1: ancient rud warlock. Yes, yeah, because ultimately we we come
Speaker 1: to to learn that he is either some sort of
Speaker 1: an ancient druid warlock or perhaps something worse, perhaps a
Speaker 1: demon or the devil himself, or or something something from beyond.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It could go either way. But but
Speaker 1: there's a lot more to Shadwell than just butlering. So
Speaker 1: Tom gets home with this frog that he caught in
Speaker 1: the graveyard and he's like, He's like, Okay, I want
Speaker 1: to know the secret of the living dead, And and
Speaker 1: I guess Shadwell is like, okay, maybe he should know.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, Um, but the frog seems significant. Can you
Speaker 1: explain the frog to me? I've seen this movie multiple
Speaker 1: times and I don't understand the relationship between the frog
Speaker 1: and the power to come back from the dead. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really have a clear answer. But we see
Speaker 1: actual frogs. We see, of course, the wonderful frog ammulet
Speaker 1: that comes up that when he first appeared on screen,
Speaker 1: I I audibly ga it was so to behold wonderful jewelry.
Speaker 1: So Tom's mother is like, kids, should we tell him
Speaker 1: the secret of the living dead? It could be dangerous
Speaker 1: for him, And Chad wells like, it won't be dangerous
Speaker 1: for him if he's protected with this and then he
Speaker 1: gets out this necklace that's got a frog on it,
Speaker 1: and I think Chad Well has a ring with the
Speaker 1: frog on it as well. Uh uh. And then oh,
Speaker 1: and then there's the like the Frog from Beyond. There's
Speaker 1: like a dreamlike sequence involving a mirror that cast no reflection,
Speaker 1: and within that smoking mirror of a cult uh weirdness,
Speaker 1: we see the form of a frog. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if like that is the form of the force
Speaker 1: from beyond? Is it is it conveying information? Or is
Speaker 1: that there? Or is that the is that the form
Speaker 1: of the destroyer? And this h this picture, I don't know,
Speaker 1: so many questions, but the frog is a repeating symbol
Speaker 1: and uh oh yeah, it's uh it's goods. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of frog action in this and it absolutely works.
Speaker 1: There's also a wonderful scene where when Tom and his
Speaker 1: mother first meet up, they start waltzing around the living room.
Speaker 1: They've got like a sunken living room and they're dancing
Speaker 1: and she's like, Tom, now I you know, I think
Speaker 1: the police are after you. And he says, the word
Speaker 1: mother is fuzz and she says, she says, if you
Speaker 1: don't be careful, you're going to end up arrested, and
Speaker 1: he says the word mother is busted. It's weird how
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's having to educate his mom on
Speaker 1: the cool lingo. But their living room is really hip
Speaker 1: like it's a very mod living room with m like
Speaker 1: they had this cosmic like black star skate behind the
Speaker 1: occult seance table, and then there's a fireplace and there's
Speaker 1: like a this weird modern furniture going on. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a strange, strange living room and I love it.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, in this whole sequence, Tom has Tom has
Speaker 1: this weird thing where he goes into the cursed room
Speaker 1: and faces the magic mirror, and ultimately he finds out
Speaker 1: the secret of the living dead by overhearing his mother,
Speaker 1: and it does it seems like much of a secret.
Speaker 1: The secret just seems to be that you have to
Speaker 1: to become an evil, undead immortal, you have to kill
Speaker 1: yourself and truly believe you'll come back from the dead.
Speaker 1: And Tom is, I guess he's convinced of this. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. I'm trying to remember what specifically convinced him.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was the experience in the room, like encountering
Speaker 1: other worldly, weird, magical things. But when he he's terrified
Speaker 1: in the room, like there's there's a lot of terrified
Speaker 1: acting going on while he's in there. But it's not
Speaker 1: long afterwards, so he gets out of there. He wakes
Speaker 1: up and he's like, all right, let's do it. Death
Speaker 1: and immortality bring it on, right, And so the next
Speaker 1: day he's ready. He's ready. He's ready to become the
Speaker 1: Litch King. So, like we said earlier, every outlaw biker
Speaker 1: movie has to have scenes of bikers riding around knocking
Speaker 1: things over. You know, they see stuff that's vertical and
Speaker 1: just their eyes go red and they're like, uh, you're
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be vertical for long. And so they
Speaker 1: ride around in the town square knocking stuff over in
Speaker 1: a in a scene of chaos and mayhem that will
Speaker 1: that will culminate in Tom driving his motorcycle off a
Speaker 1: bridge to become the evil Dead. Right. He watches up
Speaker 1: on the bank and they're like two children there and
Speaker 1: they're like look. And so then after this we get
Speaker 1: a scene is one of the best scenes in the movie.
Speaker 1: It's the funeral for Tom, which they have at this
Speaker 1: stone circle that you saw on the opening of the film,
Speaker 1: which they called The Seven Witches. I don't know which
Speaker 1: elements to focus on first, but this scene is so great.
Speaker 1: Maybe the folk song. So there's one of the bikers
Speaker 1: who again they they kill people. He's also like a
Speaker 1: sweet singer songwriter, and he plays this song that goes
Speaker 1: and the world never knew his name, but the chosen
Speaker 1: few know of his fame. Yeah, it's really good. Um
Speaker 1: and and uh, you can find clips of this whole
Speaker 1: song on YouTube if you look around for it. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the folk song that's going on. That's wonderful. Just
Speaker 1: also the whole premise because basically what's happened is after
Speaker 1: he after Tom died, Abby came to his mom and said, hey, um,
Speaker 1: it's sad that Tom died. We would love to bury
Speaker 1: him in our way, according to our custom according to
Speaker 1: our customs. So you might wonder what is the traditional
Speaker 1: English biker funeral. Well, apparently involves I guess being taxidermide
Speaker 1: atop your motorcycle and then buried on your motorcycle in
Speaker 1: a grave, like an enormous grave. And in this case
Speaker 1: that isn't the grave like adjacent to the hinge. It's
Speaker 1: really right, in the middle of the hinge, which seems
Speaker 1: this seems like this would not be legal the authorities.
Speaker 1: I do not think they would let you bury somebody
Speaker 1: there and on a motorcycle. I mean, it's gonna motorcycle
Speaker 1: just on it. It reminds me of the actual practice
Speaker 1: of horse burial, where, for example, you might see an
Speaker 1: ancient Scythian warrior buried with his horse. I think this
Speaker 1: this practice is common among um people more in sort
Speaker 1: of like the Indo European and Central Asian regions throughout
Speaker 1: his street where you know, the strong, strong horse based cultures,
Speaker 1: people would sometimes be buried with their horse in some way,
Speaker 1: and here it's like that, but it's the motorcycle instead
Speaker 1: of the horse. Yeah, yeah, it's but it's great because
Speaker 1: he's just sitting on the boy. He's just being real still,
Speaker 1: you know, on the on the motorcycle in the grave
Speaker 1: while they're playing the song. And then oh and then
Speaker 1: of course you get to you see the hinge the
Speaker 1: stones behind them, and then also there's a smoke stack
Speaker 1: in the background. And I just love that shot like that,
Speaker 1: that shot just feels so seventies Britain. I love it,
Speaker 1: and the song going on the lyrics. At one point
Speaker 1: the singer goes and he really got it on. He
Speaker 1: rode that sweet machine just like a bomb. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I can't think of instances of people riding bombs except
Speaker 1: in doctors strange love. Is that what he meant? Maybe
Speaker 1: so I mean the time the time frame would work,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's British biker lingo that we're just this.
Speaker 1: But so, of course Tom comes back from the grave
Speaker 1: as as an evil, undead version of himself. I guess
Speaker 1: he was already evil. Please don't just say he camp
Speaker 1: comes back from the grave. He busts up out of
Speaker 1: the grave. So there's a scene where um the like
Speaker 1: a car pulls over on the highway and the man
Speaker 1: gets out of the car and his wife there is
Speaker 1: like he's like, oh, we're having car trouble. I've got
Speaker 1: to go to the garage. And his wife says, you
Speaker 1: could get there faster if you cut through the seven witches.
Speaker 1: You're not afraid, are you, And he's like, no, obviously
Speaker 1: he is. So he's walking through the seven witches. But
Speaker 1: then what's that he hears is that a little bit
Speaker 1: of a Is that a revving? The revving of a
Speaker 1: motorcycle as if coming up from out of the earth,
Speaker 1: and then boom, spray of dirt. Tom busts up out
Speaker 1: of his grave on the motorcycle and runs the s
Speaker 1: guy over. Yeah, so Tom is back from the grave.
Speaker 1: And one of the great things about this is you
Speaker 1: might expect, given all this, that that Tom would be
Speaker 1: this like grizzly undead biker now. But no, Tom looks
Speaker 1: exactly like he did in life, acts exactly like he
Speaker 1: did in life, with the added caveat that he is
Speaker 1: now seemingly immortal and indestructible. And you might wonder, well,
Speaker 1: what's his how does he exploit this? Well, the first
Speaker 1: things he does is he basically he takes up his
Speaker 1: his hog, and then he he also goes in as
Speaker 1: a beer and he doesn't pay for any of these
Speaker 1: things because he is invincible. Well, he kills the service
Speaker 1: station attendant because he asked him for money, and then
Speaker 1: he also at he goes to the pub to use
Speaker 1: the telephone um because he wants to call Shadwell. He
Speaker 1: calls Shadwell on the phone and Shadwell is like, Oh,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be back? And he says
Speaker 1: splendid and uh, he seems maybe even more freed from
Speaker 1: pathetic human morality than he was before, because now he's
Speaker 1: just doing murders. Everywhere he goes is like like five
Speaker 1: at a time. Yeah. There's like a lady at the
Speaker 1: pub who wants to to ride on his motorcycle. She's like,
Speaker 1: take me for a ride, and he's like no, and
Speaker 1: he just kills her. Yeah, he's off screen killing everybody. Yes,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so he's he's immortal and invulnerable, and he
Speaker 1: appears back to the rest of his gang and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, here's the deal. If you kill yourself and
Speaker 1: become an undead lich king like me, you will be
Speaker 1: indestructible and then we can really party. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: buy into it instantly because the proof is in the pudding.
Speaker 1: Like here he is, he's back. You don't need to
Speaker 1: go into the weird mirror room because Tom stands before you.
Speaker 1: And also one of them tries to stab him, and
Speaker 1: he's like, it doesn't work on me anymore. See, I'm immortal.
Speaker 1: You guys should join the club. He's not bothered by it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy tries to stab him and he's just like,
Speaker 1: isn't it cool? Um? But so there is a guess
Speaker 1: a very darkly comic sequence where all the rest of
Speaker 1: the bikers are like, you know, I'm next, and they
Speaker 1: take their turns doing are suicides to become the evil dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a sequence that is was just shockingly hilarious, uh
Speaker 1: strong gallows humor. But it's like each one chooses a
Speaker 1: different method. The one that got me though, is the
Speaker 1: is the bike graphic get which one this is? He's
Speaker 1: he's wearing a swimsuit and he's laid in with chains,
Speaker 1: like a ridiculous amount of chains, like like Bob Marley's ghost.
Speaker 1: He's towards Jacob Marley. I'm sorry, Jacob Marley's Ghost's not Bob. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Jacob Marley's ghost from from a Christmas Carol. He's laden
Speaker 1: in all these you know, fake chains, and he's he's
Speaker 1: he's shambling towards the river side. It's clearly to drown himself.
Speaker 1: But it's like, really, that's the method you choose, and
Speaker 1: and he does it one of them Obscaren of course, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: one of them goes skydiving without a parachute. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yes, the goal is they're all going to become
Speaker 1: undead bikers. Just like Tom. Yeah. And so in the end,
Speaker 1: because of course there's just death everywhere. Now, um, the
Speaker 1: police get involved. So the third act, that's, uh, I
Speaker 1: guess pretty standard for movies like this. The police come
Speaker 1: in and they're like, well, we've got to we've got
Speaker 1: to set a trap for Tom and the bikers, um,
Speaker 1: and they decide they want to use Abby as bait
Speaker 1: because Abby is the only one of them who doesn't
Speaker 1: buy into this, and she decides she actually doesn't want
Speaker 1: to become undead. She likes living, thanks very much, and
Speaker 1: she backs out of it. So she does almost overdose
Speaker 1: and has like a dream sequence. That's that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: kind of good. Oh yeah, yeah, that is very good.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, they're the bikers are riding around and
Speaker 1: there's yet another grocery store punishment scene where they're they're
Speaker 1: just plowing through the aisles. This carnation evaporated milk must suffer,
Speaker 1: you know, the marmote will pay, and they're smashing all
Speaker 1: of the products and you see and you see Jane
Speaker 1: being especially evil. She's like, I, I you know, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to hit baby carriages with my motorcycle.
Speaker 1: I just want to do the most evil things I
Speaker 1: can think of. Yeah, yeah, she run. She's on her
Speaker 1: motorcycle driving through the aisle aiming at the baby carriage,
Speaker 1: hits the baby carriage, and then of course Kareen's into
Speaker 1: the like the meat counter the back and of course
Speaker 1: these are all real motorcycle stunts. So it's like they're
Speaker 1: just wiping out in a in a grocery store. It's
Speaker 1: under grocery store they shot this in. Was it a
Speaker 1: safe way, maybe so, But Abby's along. Abby's getting cold
Speaker 1: feet at this point for sure, like she was really
Speaker 1: I mean no, she's more than that, Like she she
Speaker 1: had already decided she doesn't want any part of this,
Speaker 1: but now she's part of this, this police scheme to
Speaker 1: trap them, which I didn't completely understand how this played out,
Speaker 1: because just suddenly, like they lay her out in the
Speaker 1: morgue and they let Tom know that she's dead, I guess,
Speaker 1: so that he'll come and get her. And then there
Speaker 1: we get some groovy music playing and then there's a
Speaker 1: suddenly we see all the police and the police inspector,
Speaker 1: including Fudge. They're just they're in the like the coroners
Speaker 1: when like the little cubby holes for the corpses for
Speaker 1: the cadavers, and so I guess they've been off screen
Speaker 1: killed as well. Yeah, I think that is the implication
Speaker 1: that Tom just just dispatched them, as he does with
Speaker 1: nearly everyone he meets now, because again he has super
Speaker 1: strength and cannot be hurt. Right, They're just they're running wild.
Speaker 1: Granted they're not trying to do much. But then we
Speaker 1: get a scene where Shadwell and Mom are talking to
Speaker 1: Tom and they're like, well, what are your plans? What's next?
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, well, you know, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of police officers and teachers, and he just runs
Speaker 1: through a list of like various generally like small level
Speaker 1: local authority figures and he's like, we're just gonna kill
Speaker 1: all of them. That's what we're gonna do. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna completely tear down society from the bottom up. So
Speaker 1: then I think even Mom, even though she's been involved
Speaker 1: in a lot of evil magic, she she sort of
Speaker 1: has a change of heart. She's like, what have I done?
Speaker 1: What kind of monster have I created? And of course
Speaker 1: Shadwell is there, and the Shadwell early on had had
Speaker 1: mentioned had dropped that those stones that we saw earlier well,
Speaker 1: those are what's left of ancient warlocks who forgot their
Speaker 1: bargain or turned their back on the powers that they served.
Speaker 1: And and so when she starts saying, well they must,
Speaker 1: I want to back out. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: part of whatever deal I've made with whoever, with the
Speaker 1: beings beyond the mirror, the thing that takes the form
Speaker 1: of the frog or what have you. And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a price to pay, and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: I will do it. And so that's what we get
Speaker 1: in the end. Even though the the evil Dead Bikers
Speaker 1: cannot be defeated by conventional arms or weapons, they can
Speaker 1: be undone by ritual magic and so ultimately they've got
Speaker 1: to call in somebody's mom to fix things. Yes, so yeah,
Speaker 1: the final scene is Abby's standing up to the Abbe's
Speaker 1: pretended to be undead, you know, sort of going along
Speaker 1: with it, but Tom suspects something's up. When he drives
Speaker 1: through a brick wall. It's total ann pas by it
Speaker 1: and she goes around it and he's like, what's up.
Speaker 1: You're not dead, are you? And she's like no, I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you. And then the whole game kind
Speaker 1: of turns on her. He's reaching out to strangle her,
Speaker 1: but Mom has turned off the magic and uh, perhaps
Speaker 1: the sun is involved as well, because suddenly they start
Speaker 1: turning to stone. All the bikers turned to stone right
Speaker 1: there in the hinge, and Abby is the only one
Speaker 1: left alive. And then this dark vehicle, uh, pulls up
Speaker 1: and a lone figure gets out of it and begins
Speaker 1: walking towards her. And I believe this is supposed to
Speaker 1: be Shadwell, maybe in his like fully realized devil form
Speaker 1: or Warlock form or something. Yeah, so I love the
Speaker 1: ending because it was one of these what's happening, what's
Speaker 1: whether it's the future. Is Shadwell showing up now to
Speaker 1: offer Abby the deal, the deal that the mom has
Speaker 1: backed out on, the deal that we really don't know
Speaker 1: any of the details off, which again I kind of
Speaker 1: like because again, part of the film is it's about
Speaker 1: the youth. It's about the youth in the world that
Speaker 1: the grown ups have created, and they certainly don't understand
Speaker 1: all the ramifications and the rules of that world, either
Speaker 1: the real world or certainly the supernatural world that Shadwell
Speaker 1: and Mom are involved in. Yeah, and you know one
Speaker 1: thing I love about the ending is that all these
Speaker 1: biker movies are about young people rebelling against authority structures.
Speaker 1: Something about the motorcycle signals a kind of freedom, a
Speaker 1: kind of removal of the constraints established by the authority
Speaker 1: figures around you. And at the end of this movie,
Speaker 1: what you've got to do is call somebody's mom to
Speaker 1: to like make him stop acting up. And I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then we roll credits, and uh, it's also fun.
Speaker 1: This is a credit credit sequence that uh the divides
Speaker 1: the cast up by the factions they were involved in,
Speaker 1: which I thought was nice. So you get a full
Speaker 1: list of the bikers, you get the uh the law,
Speaker 1: you also get the survivors. So I really, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I wish I saw it, we saw that
Speaker 1: more certainly in modern um modern uh credits on films.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I like that too. I like the
Speaker 1: fonts to I always get a fontent on good fonts.
Speaker 1: Even the fonts on their their jackets are really nice.
Speaker 1: Tom I believe has like a pink and green like
Speaker 1: kind of a it's kind of like a like it
Speaker 1: feels very eighties. The coloration on his name tag, portion
Speaker 1: of his his jacket. But I really like it. I'm
Speaker 1: just surprised nobody has remade this or revisited it. Yeah, ultimate,
Speaker 1: I mean this is a I think a nearly perfect
Speaker 1: trash movie. Uh. I could not ask for a better
Speaker 1: seventies supernatural biker movie. That this is sort of the
Speaker 1: peak for me. Yeah, I agree this. I think this
Speaker 1: is the supernatural biker film par excellence. Um. So you
Speaker 1: might be wondering out there, well, where can I watch Psychomania? Well,
Speaker 1: Psychomania fortunately is widely available, uh in digital formats. Aero
Speaker 1: Video put out an absolutely beautiful looking two disc blue
Speaker 1: ray of this film a few years back, and you
Speaker 1: can still pick that up. The soundtrack is also widely
Speaker 1: available in all formats. But if you're looking to stream
Speaker 1: this picture, I believe it is hosted on numerous streaming
Speaker 1: platform slash channels including shutter fandor and a m C
Speaker 1: and all of those free trial periods. So if you
Speaker 1: just want to dip in and get yourself some Psychomania
Speaker 1: and then and then check out both, then that that's
Speaker 1: certainly an option. Alright, We're gonna go and close this
Speaker 1: out real quick though, you know, since there were some
Speaker 1: suicidal elements in this picture and we discuss them a
Speaker 1: little bit. If you're troubled by suicidal thoughts, you're not
Speaker 1: alone in a sympathetic ears only a phone call away.
Speaker 1: In the United States, consider calling the National Suicide Prevention
Speaker 1: Hotline eight to five five. You can visit Suicide Prevention
Speaker 1: Lifeline dot org for additional resources tailored towards general and
Speaker 1: specific needs and communities. You'll also find a list of
Speaker 1: local and international suicide hotlines at suicide dot org. That's
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