DumpTV presents "Psychomania"

Biker movies were hot in the late '60s, and the film makers began exploring horror themes by the early '70s
(remember "Werewolves on Wheels"?) In 1972 the British got into the swing of things with "Psychomania,"
... a strange little horror/comedy about a gang of young Mod bikers called "The Living Dead" who make a pact with the Devil, so they can live up to, or rather die down to their namesake.

George Sanders stars as the friend of the devil in butler's disguise who helps get the pact in order. Sanders is probably best remembered as the voice of ShereKahn in Disney's "The Jungle Book" as well as starring as The Falcon in the '40s (when his brother Tom Conway wasn't playing him).

With names like Chopped Meat, Bertram and Abby, the bikers aren't a very savage lot.

They tend to blow cops the raspberry or chase little old ladies and mother's with baby carridges around shopping centers, so whether they would be more viscious by really being living dead is open to question.

But they do have some pretty funny suicides (if there is such a thing) when the gang fulfills their end of the bargain. Watch for the guy in the high rise when he's asked to move his illegally parked bike...what a hoot!

So what if "Psychmania" isn't a work of cinematic art; very few horror films are (Herzog's "Nosferatu-Phantom der Nacht", for example).
... But it is funny and even marginally tasteless, so you know it's ripe fodder for dumptv.com.

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