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    Psychomania (1971)

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    The most wonderfully deranged film in the history of British cinema is Psychomania. When it went into production in Shepperton Studios in late 1971, this was to be the first-ever quality zombie-biker-in-Middlesex horror film.

    Tom (Nicky Henson) is the leader of a motorcycle gang called ‘The Living Dead’. He’s an upper-class delinquent who still lives with his mummy.

    With the aid of a frog-worshipping cult, his satanic mother (Beryl Reid) and her shifty butler Shadwell (George Sanders), Tom makes a pact with the devil and willingly commits suicide in the belief that he’ll return from the dead.

    Soon after his death and subsequent upright burial still straddling his motorbike, Tom wheelies straight back from the grave as an immortal biker with a bad attitude problem.

    As a result of Tom’s successful reincarnation, the rest of the gang begins committing suicide and returning from the dead as the now zombie Living Dead gang – virtually all of whom sport the brand of stage-cockney accent last heard in Here Come the Double Deckers.

    Only Tom’s girlfriend Abby (Mary Larkin) refuses to follow his example, incurring the anger of her undead friends. With the gang wreaking havoc throughout the countryside, it’s left to Tom’s mother to stop the mayhem.

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    Naturally, it all ends badly, with Beryl being turned into a toad “for all eternity”. But despite its faults and a restricted budget, Psychomania admirably fulfils its brief of entertaining the viewing public.

    Shadwell
    George Sanders
    Mrs Latham
    Beryl Reid
    Tom Latham

    Nicky Henson
    Abby

    Mary Larkin
    Bertram

    Roy Holder
    Inspector Hesseltine

    Robert Hardy
    Sergeant

    Patrick Holt
    Hatchet

    Denis Gilmore
    Jane

    Ann Michele
    Chopped Meat

    Miles Greenwood
    Gash

    Peter Whiting

    Director
    Don Sharp

    Video

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