Psychomania (1973) on Netflix
Tom Latham leads the Living Dead, a biker gang whose members include his girlfriend Abby. On his eighteenth birthday he sees the Frog God in the room where his father vanished.
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- Rotten Tomatoes86%
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Plot summary
Tom Latham heads a biker gang that takes the name the Living Dead and spreads fear through its small town. Black magic is his hobby, and he spends his free time at the Seven Witches, a ring of standing stones in the Surrey countryside. At home, his mother and her butler Shadwell conduct séances and worship something called the Frog God. Tom's father disappeared in one room of the house soon after his son was born. On his eighteenth birthday, Tom walks into that room. The gang holds that a person who takes his own life in full belief will return and live forever, and they mean to put that belief to the test.
Cast
- Denis Gilmoreas Hatchet
- Miles Greenwoodas Chopped Meat
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Psychomania (1973)
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- Nicky Henson arrived on set to find "eight clapped-out 350 AJS' and Matchless BSAs" instead of the Harley-Davidsons he expected, bikes bought second-hand and falling to bits, with eight mechanics working full-time to keep them running.
- George Sanders was paid more than the rest of the cast, so his scenes were shot in ten days to save money, according to his co-star Nicky Henson.
- George Sanders committed suicide soon after filming wrapped, ending a period of heavy drug use, deterioration of the cerebellum and resulting speech problems.
- Nicky Henson said he performed all but three of his own stunts, and that the stuntmen who did the others were injured after each one.
- The stone circle of The Seven Witches was built for the film, and exterior scenes were shot at the Hepworth Way shopping center and Wellington Close housing block in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, both since demolished and rebuilt.
- Two of John Cameron's score pieces, "Witch Hunt (Title Theme from the Film Psychomania)" and "Living Dead", came out in 1973 as a 7-inch single on the Jam label under the artist name "Frog", and were reissued in 2011 by Spoke Records.
- Film historian and director Bruce G. Hallenback wrote in a book published before Psychomania reached DVD that the film already had a cult following; Nicky Henson noted that dodgy films later come out on DVD and become "cults".
