While not necessarily “1970s fashion”, the gang also sports iconic motorcycle helmets with goggles painted to look like skull and crossbones. Many of the women sport mini-dresses and go-go boots while the gang members favor jumpsuits and tight leather pants. I told you that there are lots of frogs involved.) The fashions in the film also firmly are of their era. (By the way, John Cameron is credited as “Frog” on the single.
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Not every horror movie gets its main theme released as a seven-inch single like Psychomania. While hip, the score does not feel out of place instead, it works well within the scenes. The seriously funky soundtrack is by noted composer John Cameron, who is also the musical supervisor and arranger for the original West End production of Les Misérables.
This does not mean that it is dated it is simply a super groovy film that evokes that time period. Psychomania is one such movie it is infused with the aura of early 1970s Great Britain. Some films bear the fingerprints of the times in which they are produced. Shadwell (George Sanders) requests that a special frog amulet is placed in the grave. Oh, and somehow frogs figure into this whole things. Also, she is growing disturbed by Tom’s increasingly violent behavior, including cold-blooded murder. This appeals to all of them except Tom’s girlfriend Abby ( Mary Larkin ), who is not so sure it is a good idea. Reuniting with his gang, he tries to convince them to kill themselves and live again like him. He is not a zombie he appears to be like everyone else, but he is immortal and possesses inhuman strength. After his friends bury him astride his motorcycle, he comes back to life fully restored. Tom takes this news and promptly kills himself by driving off of a bridge. After Tom awakens, he overhears his mother relating the secret to eternal life: one must die fully believing that one will come back, and one will be resurrected, never to die again. While there, his mother signs an agreement with a mysterious man in a black cape. In the room, Tom has visions, including one where his mother has him at the stone circle as an infant. Speaking with his spiritualist mother ( Beryl Reid ) and their butler Shadwell (veteran actor George Sanders in his final screen role), Tom convinces them to give him the key to the mysterious locked room that is related to his father’s disappearance 18 years prior. This is not enough for Tom, and he wants the freedom to create more havoc. He and his gang spend their time either riding through town and causing general mayhem or hanging out around the local Neolithic stone circle known as the Seven Witches. Tom Latham ( Nicky Henson ) is the leader of the British motorcycle gang The Living Dead. Tom (Nicky Henson) is buried astride his motorcycle.
The story itself blends its two genres seamlessly, and the filmmakers trust the audience enough to allow them to put the pieces together without having to be spoon-fed conclusions. The motorcycle and car stunt driving is top notch and really gives a sense of speed and danger. Firmly rooted in the early 1970s, Psychomania features a groovy soundtrack and far-out fashions. After successfully testing this theory, he convinces the rest of his gang to join him in an undead state so that they may partake of murder and mayhem with impunity. The leader of a motorcycle gang discovers that he can be resurrected if he simply believes that he will at the moment of his death. Director Don Sharp and screenwriters Julian Zimet and Arnaud d’Usseau mashup hoodlum biker and witchcraft/satanism genres to create a unique film. While not particularly gory nor gruesome, Psychomania (1973) is the grooviest undead biker gang movie you will ever have the opportunity to see.
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