Psychomania - Black Magic & Bad Boy Bikers
A suicide ride to the other side!
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The latest in my TV and movie review series Hauntology & Dystopia in which I discuss the 1973 movie ‘Psychomania’. Tom Latham, an amiable psychopath, is the leader of a violent youth gang named The Living Dead, which includes his girlfriend Abby. Tom dabbles in black magic and spends much of his free time at an ancient Surrey countryside ruin known as The Seven Witches, a Stonehenge-like circle of standing stones. In a similar vein, his mother and her sinister butler Shadwell get their kicks out of holding séances in their home while they worship the Frog God. Tom’s father vanished in a mysterious room shortly after Tom’s birth, a room Tom enters on his eighteenth birthday and where he sees the Frog God.
This incident leads to Tom committing suicide and, with his mother’s help, returns from the dead. Being one of the undead means that Tom cannot be killed and has superhuman strength, which he demonstrates when he massacres those at a local pub. One by one, his fellow bikers commit suicide with the goal of returning as one of the undead, gathering at The Seven Witches to plan their campaign of terror against the locals. Only Abby refuses. Click below to watch.
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