Monday, February 8, 2021

'Psychomania' (1973) - Don Sharp.

This exhilaratingly psychedelicized motorcycle phantasmagoria is arguably one of the very finest, unrepentantly left field examples of blissfully bizarre, deliciously camp, satanically surrealistic 70s Brit-Horror. Don Sharp's exemplary exploitation horror, 'Psychomania' vividly remains a singularly strange supernaturally-charged cinematic curiosity that has lovingly been given a thorough, wholly deserved MOT by the BFI, thereby effectively turbocharging this latterly neglected late night TV favourite, giving this exceptionally odd, luridly logic defying, Toadally tweaked vintage terror treat a most welcome polish!  

Genre Director par excellence, Don ‘Kiss of the Vampire’ Sharp's entertainingly eccentric excursion into the blackened, reality-warping realms of kooky-kitsch, black magic-invoking, grave-dodging, death-dealing 'Ton-up' bikers frequently feels like some deliriously distempered, LSD-laced, fright-packed fever-dream! If you only have time to see one irreligiously revved up, hell-raising, middle-class motorcycle malcontents riding pell-mell across the bucolic British countryside freakshow, then I'm quite sure that you could do far worse than to take a tarmac thrashing terror trip into the fabulously far-out, freewheeling insanity of Don Sharp's Brimstone-blasted 70s zombie biker classic! 'Like Hammer Films on speed,‘Psychomania’ is a pedal-to-the-mental, perversely piston-packed 70s Satanic shocker!' 

'The Devil Rides...a Norton!' - Weirdlingwolf. 

   



 

'Bury Me An Angel'

'I can't get my tongue to come out any other way!' 

'Not having 24 hour tele yet is proper murder, innit?'

'I haven't really thought this move through!'

From the nifty BFI booklet.










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