Spooky Goat day fourteen! Spooky Movie Psychomania
5PSYCHOMANIA
Look, I’m clearly running behind today, and it’s sad in the forums for certain parrot-related reasons (@Walterbird LOVE FOREVER), so TODAY IS PSYCHOMANIA DAY!
Psychomania is a 1973 British horror film about a biker gang whose members commit suicide one by one and come back from the dead. I very clearly remember looking at the VHS box in Kmart as a teenager and thinking it looks interesting, but I don’t like biker movies. Little did I realize that it’s a BRITISH movie, so it has Beryl Reid and Nicky Henson and GEORGE SANDERS OF ALL PEOPLE, and STANDING STONES, and is very, very silly.
George Sanders committed suicide shortly after making this movie, leaving this beautiful suicide note:
/quote Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck,
It also has a kick-ass soundtrack if you like that sort of thing:
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Aw dang, I did something super-weird w/George Sanders’ suicide note and also ended it with a comma, WHICH HE PROBABLY WOULDN’T HAVE DONE, even after the dementia diagnosis and the failed sausage investment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sanders#Final_years_and_death).
ALSO: if I’d checked the tv listings I’d have seen that Asylym, the 1972 Amicus horror anthology film was starting, and I’d have mentioned that too! Make it a night for British horror movies NOT from Hammer! It’s written by Robert Bloch from his own stories, and features in one vignette Charlotte Rampling as a young woman who takes pills that (spoiler) make her hallucinate Britt Ekland!
@mossygreen I wasn’t going to watch it, but put it on anyway and got sucked in. Now I’m wishing I had a tiny, living Herbert Lom robot to do my evil bidding, awkwardly and over a long period of time!
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@MarkDaSpark SO ADORABLE AND EVENTUALLY DEADLY, ONCE HE GETS UP ON A HIGHER SURFACE.
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Okay, that image made me look up this movie, and I found this absolutely terrific and hilarious review. All full of spoilers, but I might watch it now, because it does sound so strangely cool (I don’t often watch horror movies.)
http://www.finalgirl.rocks/2007/11/amicus-week-day-3.html
The 70s were such an odd time for movies.
@sammydog01 …and for just about everything else, tbh!