![]() This movie is so fucking wack it’s unbelievable. It was directed by Don Sharp, a Hammer director who’d also shot a few episodes of The Avengers. Freeze” on the Batman TV series, Village of the Damned and the one-time husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor) plays mum’s sinister butler Shadwell, who never ages. Hollywood’s favorite sinister British cad, Oscar-winning actor George Sanders ( Rebecca, All About Eve, “Mr. His witchy mother is played by BAFTA-winning actress and OBE, Beryl Reid ( The Killing of Sister George). His posse is called-what else-The Living Dead. ![]() ![]() Psychomania stars legit Shakespearian actor Nicky Henson as the arrogant leader of a frog-worshiping zombie motorcycle gang who makes a pact with the devil to return from the dead. Probably my very favorite of all the no budget VHS exotica discovered in this unlikely location was an oddball 1973 British horror film called Psychomania. None of it made any sense, but every time I went into this place, there were new weird videos for sale, just $2.99 each. There were also old Flash Gordon serials, Jack Benny shows, NASCAR and monster truck videos and Mexican Cantinflas comedies. They were more likely to have fallen off a truck. I don’t want to give the impression that someone artfully curated these tapes, because this was decidedly not the case. This enterprise seemed to be a side-business of the check cashing business. These tapes were being sold amidst things like car air fresheners, steering wheel covers, and 99 cent “travel” shoe shine kits. (I even found some animated “ Tijuana Bibles” including one called “Woody’s A Fag” which could have ruined Woody Woodpecker’s movie career, let’s just say, had this information gotten out in the 1940s). King of the Zombies with Mantan Moreland, rock conspiracy flick Beyond the Doors and something called Banned and Racist Cartoons which is probably self-explanatory. Sometime in the mid-1980s, in one of those “Checks Cashed” places on 14th Street in NYC, I came upon a remarkable cache of el cheapo cult videos for sale. In America, ‘Psychomania’ was released as ‘The Death Wheelers’
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