WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Psychomania 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.320 Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema rewind. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.959 This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and ooh, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.360 we are bringing you a classic. This is one of 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.360 my favorite older episodes of the show. It is psychomania. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.880 Is there a genre better than supernatural biker films? 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.520 I'm not sure that there is, and this says within 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.960 that subgenre, one of, if not the absolute best. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.640 I smell exhaust, the hot breath of devils in the 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.600 fog of dawn, the noise of a great cat purring 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.879 underneath the earth and mound They're waking up. Can you 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:55.440 see it through the mist? Pale sprigs of mistletoe entwined 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.880 with greasy drive chains. The high Priest watches his reflection 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.640 stretch to absurdity across the curve of the mirrored chrome. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.360 He is as tall as the cliffs. He is as 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.920 long as the worm of dreams. The purring of the 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:15.800 cat grows deafening. The Priest's grin is wild. With that 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.760 twist of his hand, flexing the wrist. Is he wringing 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.160 a hen's neck to adorn the altar of spring? Or 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:35.280 is this the spell that brings the iron hog to life? 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.440 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.240 Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.200 This is Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick and Rob. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.480 I'm so excited today. I'm so excited because you out there. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.760 You know, if you've been listening to Weird House Cinema 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.080 that we love our employe genre crossover films. One of 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.720 my favorite examples we've done so far is the niche 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.000 subgenre represented by our back catalog entry Santo and The 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.079 Treasure of Dracula. Of course that would be the supernatural 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:18.560 wrestling film. Well, today we're finally doing a supernatural biker film, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.600 a niche subgenre that really holds a strong, powerful revving 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.680 place in my heart. It gets my motor running. I 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.520 love it. I love it. I love it. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.760 Yeah, this one, this one is a lot of fun. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.600 And it'd been on my list to watch for a while. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.000 I know you've been talking about it for years, and 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.240 we occasionally talk about biker films and supernatural biker films, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.120 but I had not actually watched it till this week, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.680 and it was just a total delight, just such a 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.160 wonderfully weird film and delightfully so. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.520 Now you have seen other supernatural biker movies, right, like 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.079 you've seen were Wolves on Wheels. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.240 Oh yeah, were Wolves on Wheels a very American supernatural 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.000 biker film from the the same time period. But this 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.079 is a very British film we're talking about here today. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.799 Yes, yes, were Rolls on Wheels is a grosser, sweatier, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:16.680 more guttural American western style supernatural biker film. This supernatural 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.519 biker film is a bit more tweedy, and I don't 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.799 know has the English morning fog on its back today. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.000 The movie we're talking about is the nineteen seventy three 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:34.880 British supernatural biker movie Psychomania aka The Death Wheelers. And 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.600 so whenever you have a great genre crossover movie, you 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.760 want to identify, like what are the mainstreams feeding into this? 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.440 And Robie, if you disagree, let me know. But I 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.040 think the main two things we're getting as inputs here are, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.120 on one hand, outlaw biker movies, which we can talk 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.240 about in a little more detail in a minute, And 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.960 then the other hand would be like British witchcraft horror 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.240 films a lah the Hammer horror movies of the late 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.400 sixties and early seventies. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.920 Yes, I think those are probably the two primary influences. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.040 But I think it's also worth noting the Avengers DNA. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.760 In this we have some people connected to The Avengers 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.200 and the Avengers. If you're not familiar with the Avengers 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.960 TV show, A, it was pretty fun, but B it 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.760 also would. It generally featured this sort of idea of 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.039 contemporary weirdness in the world, not unlike what the X 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.440 Files would do later, and I think there is a 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.599 hint of that in this film. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.080 Okay, I didn't think about that input at all because 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.159 I've never actually seen The Avengers, though I know what 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.400 it is. This is very different than Marvel's The Avengers. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.360 This is the British TV show. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.560 Yeah, the one that was eventually made into one of 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.120 Sean Connery's last films, if not his last film, one 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.919 of the last films. They tried to do a reboot 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.080 of it decades ago and it was not successful, but 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.640 the original TV series was often a lot of fun. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.320 Yeah. Another way of thinking about this movie is, Okay, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.279 if you got the precedent of where Will was on 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.400 wheels in America, this is sort of like druid Lich 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:10.520 Kings on wheels, like Undead stone hinge magic demons revving 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.880 their engines and uh and and doing all the outlaw 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.200 biker stuff, but from beyond the grave. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.440 Yes, now. I often turned to Michael Weldon's psychotronic video 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.320 guides for a little guidance in the films that we 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.360 we we we we turned to UH. Sometimes I discover 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.960 a film by looking at his work. Other times we'll 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.400 we'll be thinking about one and I'll see what he 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.800 had to say about it. I'm not going to read 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.360 his entire mini review for this one, but it but 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.040 one of He basically kicks off his review of Psychomania 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.960 by saying incredible. To say the. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.680 Least, I disagree. I think it's quite credible. I would 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.280 let this co sign on a loan. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.080 Now I want to I want to put a note 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.120 about the title. So I think we already alluded to 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.960 the fact that it was also released as The Death Wheelers, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.960 which in some ways is a better title for the film. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.520 Like Death Wheelers, it's you know, death and motorcycles. We're 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.800 not actually sure what Psychomania means in context of this film, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.240 but I wonder if the title situation here it might 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:15.919 have to do with the fact that there was another 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:20.080 film titled Psychomania that was released in nineteen sixty three, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.480 so ten years earlier, also known as Violent Midnight, who 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.799 was directed by the guy who wrote Horror at Party Beach. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.280 That nineteen sixty three movie is just a murder picture. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.120 The nineteen seventy three Psychomania is so much more. And 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.520 that is definitely the film we're talking about here today, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.440 a supernatural biker film. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.440 Okay, Well, I guess we need to dwell on the 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.520 concept of a biker film for a moment, because before 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.800 you had supernatural biker films, you just had the biker 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.520 genre as a sort of fad movie genre in the 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.440 fifties through the seventies. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:58.000 Yeah, and I guess more specifically, so boy, a biguess. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.360 A big thing here is that, first of all, motorcyclecles 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.760 are not inherently one thing or another, and a motorcycle 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.719 enthusiast are not inherently one thing or the other. So 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.440 you have motorcyclists, you have motorcycle clubs. But then you 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.120 also have this area that is often referred to as 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:18.120 the outlaw motorcycle club, and that is generally what is 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.280 dwelt upon in films such. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.720 As these, right, I mean I'd say for the same 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.400 reason that there are more movies about bank robbers than 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.520 there are about accountants right now. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.600 Outlaw motorcycle clubs began to form in the late nineteen 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.880 forties in the Western United States, and over time motorcycle 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.360 club culture, outlaw or non outlaw, has spread around the world. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.320 And it's quite fascinating because what we have here is 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.040 an American subculture, and in the cases of outlaw motorcycle 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.400 gangs and often criminal subculture, that ends up just resonating 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.840 around the world, finding slightly different forms in different cultures, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:59.600 inspiring fiction, inspiring myth and then also in turn you 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.080 have the reality of motorcycle clubs and outlaw motorcycle clubs 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.080 fed by fiction and myth. So we end up with 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.000 a number of different variations of the mythic outlaw motorcyclist. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.080 You know, we have the noble outlaw, the scoundrel, the 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.720 sort of anti hippie, the rebellious youth, the rebel without 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.680 a cause, etc. So, as far as outlaw biker films go, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.840 we certainly don't have time to list them all here, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.880 but I want to mention just some of the big ones, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.680 some of the precursors to Psychomania. Now, yeah, the first 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.040 big one, of course, is nineteen fifty three's The Wild 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.120 Ones starring Marlon Brando. Even if you haven't seen this film, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.000 and I have to admit I've never watched The Wild One, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.000 You've seen the title, you've seen the cover, you've seen 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.720 stills from this or maybe even seen a clip from it. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.120 It's generally critically well received. It was highly influential, and 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.839 of course a lot of low budget exploitation films came 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.040 in its wake, just for just for decades like this 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.040 was a big film. But yeah, by the time you 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.320 get into the sixties, you have the counterculture, you have 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.320 a lot going on. Obviously during the nineteen sixties, also 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.400 have Hunter S. Thompson's book Hell's Angels coming out, which 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.200 details his, you know, sort of gonzo journalism experience with 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.360 the Notorious Motorcycle Club, and then a lot of stuff 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.480 comes in the wake of that. You have Russ Meyer's 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.120 Motorcycle in nineteen sixty five, I think that was actually 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.440 before Thompson's book. But then you get The Wild Angels 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.560 in nineteen sixty six by Roger Corman. This one is 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.199 I actually watch part of this one. I think it 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.480 has a great cast. You've got Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:38.400 Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd. Definitely a precursor to Easy Writer 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.280 because it involves some of the same people. And then yeah, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.040 you get Easy Writer in nineteen sixty nine, a highly 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.480 influential hippie biker film directed by Dennis Hopper. Terrific film, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.680 Easy Writer. But you might be asking, well, these are 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.400 all American films. When do the British films come in? Well, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.319 you have some notable entries in the British biker film 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.880 bucket of content. You have The Leather Boys from nineteen 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.079 sixty four, The Girl on a Motorcycle from sixty eight, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.000 as well as some early forays into horror hybrid biker films, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.760 such as The Black Rider in nineteen fifty four. I 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.600 don't know, you might be I haven't seen this one yet, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.000 but I think maybe it does. I mean, it does 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.479 have a motorcyclist in it. I don't know how motorcycle 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.240 club the elements there are. But then there's also a 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.600 sixty three film called The Damned which has some sort 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.679 of motorcyclist element to it as well. But then by 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.640 the nineteen seventies, Basically, we've had so many biker films 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.439 come out that you see this need to create new 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.679 twists on the genre. You can't just put out a 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.720 biker film, you know, you can't just say, oh, well, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.360 they're bad boys out there riding around on bikes. Well, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.920 how bad are they? Could they be supernaturally bad? And 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.520 that's where we get stuff like seventy ones wear Wolves 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:53.280 on Wheels or seventy two's Blood Freak, as well as 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.120 this is later and this comes after the time period 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.040 we're talking about. But I bought a vampire motorcycle from 0:10:59.080 --> 0:10:59.880 nineteen ninety. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.360 Oh, I don't know that one. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.160 I was looking. It looks good. I believe that one's British, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.360 so I may have to investigate further. But today's picture 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:12.680 might well be considered the supernatural biker film par excellence. Uh. This, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.400 this really takes the cake. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.200 Without a doubt. If you want to watch supernatural biker 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.959 horror movies, I think you should start with Psychomania. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.880 Yeah, and really, I feel like with biker fiction in general, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.600 we kind of ebbs and flows. Right. A few years back, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:34.160 we had that fairly long running Sons of Anarchy series, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.439 which I ended up watching all of. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:38.400 Uh. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.120 Oh, it's it's it's entertaining. It's uh, it's an interesting Uh, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.640 it's an interesting show. It's it's it has a lot 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.640 of cheesy elements. It has a lot of elements that 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.080 or maybe in questionable taste, okay at the time and 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.680 certainly by today's standards, but uh, it had a lot 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.800 of things going for it, like essentially trying to do 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.360 a motorcycle gang story that is shakespearean influence story at 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.120 least shakespeare light in its. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:13.000 Creation, so which Shakespeare was based on you. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.280 Like, well, the basic bones of it. They tried to 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:21.200 set up a Hamlet thing like young what's his name, Charlie, Charlie, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.600 Charlie Hanman. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.760 You know, you know the guy Charlie Hunhum. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.200 Yes him, Yes, okay, Yeah, he's basically Hamlet. They set 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.360 that up, is like he is the Hamlet of this 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.720 biker scenario. And they but they don't try and like 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.959 actually hit all the story beats of Hamlet exactly, and 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.400 then they throw a little bit of Macbeth in there. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.439 At times. It's amusing, Okay, but I'm ready for the 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.520 needle to come back to supernatural biker films. That's where 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.400 we need to go. If they want to keep the 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.679 sons of anarchy thing going that make it, vampires make it? 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.080 Where bring that? Bring that back in? That's that's my 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:54.680 two cents. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.439 Yeah, what has there been lately that really counts? I 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.760 guess there's like the what's that super hero who's like 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.400 a supernatural biker? Oh Night, Nicholas Cage, Nicholas Cauche Night 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.840 Night Right, ghost Rider, ghost Right Ghostrider? 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.200 Yeah, not not right. That's that's a different thing altogether. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.000 I haven't seen any of those except that first movie 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.640 with Nicholas Cage, which I recall being hilarious. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:18.960 I think Peter Fonda shows up in one of those, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.880 Oh does he Yeah, yeah, that that sort. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.640 Of rings a bell. Maybe it was in that first one. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.720 Yeah, that's a fun inclusion. It's thoughtful to include Peter 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:27.400 Fonda in it. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.040 The main thing I remember about that one is that 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.360 the that kid who's in American Beauty is the villain 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.200 in it, and he's some kind of monster And there's 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.800 a part where he's like in the middle of the 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.080 desert and he just walks right up to the camera 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.600 and looks into the camera and goes, Yeah, he like 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.040 opens his mouth and a bunch of teeth and stuff 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:45.440 come out. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.000 Well, that sounds great. I'm sure that character will be back, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.000 though they'll they'll create some other what do we say 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.840 his name was death not death Writer, night Writer. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:00.760 Night Writer, ghostwriter, ghost rider. Yes, all right, Well, if 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 you can't figure out the elevator pitch based on everything 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.240 we've already said, I don't know how much help we're 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.320 going to be other than the lich King rides. It's 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:09.520 that undead bikers. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.080 Let's go ahead and listen to the trailer, and I think, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.520 like last week, we might just let the trailer play 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.199 in its entirety because it's wonderful. It's a same year 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.760 as last week selection, so it makes sense. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.760 They were just ordinary troublemakers as long as they lived, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.120 but they returned from beyond the grave with superhuman powers, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.600 unleashing an unholy reign of terror that holds an entire 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:42.800 community in the grip of psychomania. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:49.080 Psychomania everybody dies, stand there, some come back. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.600 How do the dead come back? 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:51.800 Mother? 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.840 When you die, you've got to believe that you're going 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:56.480 to come back. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.680 Have you kill yourself? 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.720 That's right off a great I'm dying. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.960 You can only die once after that nothing and nobody 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.480 can harm you. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.560 Oh man, what are you waiting for? 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.960 You must stop him? 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.160 You can't. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:43.960 I must. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.520 Psychoma what happened? 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.640 You're not dead, That's what I. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.040 Was trying to tell you. I don't want to die 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:40.640 good after them. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.440 And you know what you will become, yes, and that 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.040 it will be for all eternity, because. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.840 You can only die once. After that, nothing and nobody 0:16:53.320 --> 0:17:07.240 can harm you Psychomedia. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.600 One thing about this movie is it's just so British. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.880 It has this film of Britishness all over it. It's 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.440 you know, it just smells like baked beans. Uh, it's 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.080 a it's a can of Heinz baked beans driving a 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.240 motorcycle through a roundabout. And and it's also got that 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:33.040 wonderful like the inter cutting between the the violent manic 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.000 parts on the road where they're out, you know, riding around, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.520 harassing motorists and all that on the motorway, and then 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.960 and then contrasting that with the indoor scenes where like 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.440 they go to a pub or they go into somebody's house, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.879 and it has this amazing quaint stuffiness of early seventies Britain. Uh, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.120 it's yeah, it's it's just tremendous. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.760 Well, it's an interesting twist if you've if you're used 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.719 to seeing mostly American biker films, there are any biker 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.199 film is going to have scenes where the bikers are 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.280 messing with the squares. But yes, more often than not 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.280 in your American biker films, these are taking place in 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.359 rural situations, you know, say, like a gas station often. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.160 So it's often, you know, very rural individuals who are 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.840 bedeviled by the bikers. And in this case we get 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.679 just it's not even like rural Britain person. I mean, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.840 it's not London obviously, but it's you know, it's it's 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.800 it's in town or it's you know, on the street 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.320 surrounding town. But it's the British way of life that 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.520 is threatened by the bikers as opposed to the like 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.240 American Midwest, you know, or sort of desert community kind 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:37.719 of vibe. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.720 Yeah. I'm not sure, but I think it's supposed to 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.800 be a town in the southwest of England. I think 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.360 it's supposed to be a town in like Wiltshire or something. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.720 I don't know if I'm saying that right, Wiltshire, Wiltshire, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.320 whatever it is, But yeah, there. There is a thing 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.080 that definitely that they do in this movie that a 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.560 lot of outlaw biker movies have to do, even non 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.960 super natural, utterly mundane outlaw biker movies, have to have 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.879 a scene of the bikers riding around knocking things over 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.000 in some public place, And in this movie they do 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.320 it in a grocery store, and they do it in 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.080 the middle of a town square, which makes me wonder 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.120 was it actually a common occurrence for outlaw biker gangs 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.360 at the time and I don't know, the early seventies 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.480 to just ride around in public places knocking things over, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.440 saying that shouldn't be upright and I'll make it sideways. 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.919 Or is this merely symbolic, like a way of showing 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.760 them causing chaos that can be accomplished on screen in 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:36.919 a single scene. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.240 I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if actual bikers, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.040 actual outlaw bikers, engage in this kind of thing, because 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.440 certainly there are accounts of outlaw bikers engaging in all 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.040 manner of criminal activities. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.199 I guess the kinds of things you would see with 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.879 any type of organized crime. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.200 Right, yeah, bait, yeah, organized crime, smuggling, things like that. 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.560 You don't see a lot of, say, New York Times 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.840 articles about them just knocking stuff over at grocery stores. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.560 But this reminds me. I was reading an interview or 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.480 part of an interview with the lead singer of Electric Wizard. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.800 What is his name, A Just Oborne? 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.520 I think, yeah, yeah, and doom metal band. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.200 Yeah, doom metal band, stoner band, kind of vibe. And 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.280 there was a quote from it that I want to 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.440 read here just because I thought it was amusing. He says, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.800 I don't know why it isn't venerated in the same 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.439 way as the wicker Man or Witchfinder General. There was 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.600 a whole generation of us who grew up watching it 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.520 on TV. In Wimborne, there used to be a safe 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:40.280 ways that's like a grocery like we see in this film, 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.360 with an entrance on one end and an exit right 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.520 at the other. We used to bike right through it. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:49.160 On bmx's kicking stuff over, it was called doing a psychomania. 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.119 Ah, that's perfect. Oh no, oh no, the kids getting 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.720 bad idea. They're imitating an act of violence they saw 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.400 on television and what they were watching is psychomania. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:03.080 Well, it comes back to this idea of the motorcycle Club, 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.600 the Outlad motorcycle Club in myth and in fiction and 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.600 in reality, and how these things all feed into each other. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:09.879 You know. 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.000 Yeah, at least I guess it wasn't violence against people. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.520 I mean, I don't advocate knocking over pyramids of cans 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.639 of baked beans, but yeah, yeah, but you know, I 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:19.960 guess you got to do it sometimes. 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.120 That's one of the great things about this film though, 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.680 is that, yes, the characters do engage in some heinous 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.760 acts of violence, mostly off screen, but they also just 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:33.480 do some very low level criminal Yes, you mischief in 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.760 this just yeah, knocking over stuff like. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:38.520 Mind calling and traffic. 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.320 Yeah, name calling and traffic, just minor assaults on the 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.840 British way of life. And also murder. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.280 Also murder, so it's murder or like pulling up beside 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.440 somebody in a truck and going yeah. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:22:02.000 Yeah, that kind of all right, So we talk about 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:03.760 some of the people in this film, since we're talking 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.480 about the people here absolutely. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.320 Now, is it true that this was directed by somebody 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:11.639 who had done a bunch of hammer horror films? 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.520 Yeah, at least a few. This is the director on 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.200 this picture was Don Sharp, who lived nineteen twenty one 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:21.840 through twenty eleven. Australian born British director, probably best known 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.359 for his Hammer films, including sixty threes, The Kiss of 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:29.119 the Vampire, sixty four's The Devilship Pirates and Rasputin The 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:33.119 Mad Monk from nineteen sixty six. I believe this is 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:34.960 one that our producer set is quite fond of. 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:39.040 Oh yeah, does this one actually have Christopher Lee as Resputant? 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:39.560 It does? 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.119 Yes, Oh, I've got to see that. I love a 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.760 good portrayal of Resputant. One of my favorites, if I've 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.399 never mentioned it on this show before, is he doesn't 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.679 get all that much screen time, but his scenes are fabulous. 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.200 So there's a movie from the seventies called Nicholas and 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.600 Alexandra that's about the Romanovs and the Russian Revolution and 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:02.560 all that. And it has Tom Baker, who played the 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.800 doctor on Doctor who as rest Bututant and he is 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:09.840 just awesome, just devastating. Will He will turn your brain 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.320 into a boiled ham. His scenes will just beat you 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:16.560 into submission. You'll be watching without blinking. It's so good. 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:21.040 I looked at some screenshots of it. It looks pretty great. Yeah. Now, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.120