After reading many of the other reviews, I feel those reviewers must have watched a different film than I did. Other reviewers speak of a film with "dreamy visuals", some good action and dark comedy, plus a nice helping of campy occult motorcycle madness. And indeed, that does sound like a great film! Even the name "Psychomania" conjures up LSD tinged trips through the wastelands of the video nasties.
By the Psychomania I watched was not that film. Instead I wasted an hour and half watching a rather boring, rather tame film whose was not even nearly trashy enough to be entertaining. Whatever cult this film belongs to, I don't any part of it.
The highlight of Psychomania are probably the motorcycle stunts. The long boring stretches are livened up a bit by some genuinely impressive stuntwork and some really nice action shots. I do also like when the motorcycle gang goes "rampaging" through polite society, although the delinquency on display here practically feels tame, especially compared to that found in earlier work such as "A Clockwork Orange" or in other films from the early 70s.
Oh and the occult/horror bits? Well they are there. This is a frog. There is magic. People rise from the dead and kill other people. Except these zombies look exactly the same as when they were alive, and you never actually see how anyone is killed. Everyone just seems to drop dead from freight. Or maybe they just all just feel asleep watching this film.
There's really not much else to say. And that's the problem. Maybe this film once had it place, but there are so many better films from this era. Psychomania's problem is that, while it is definitely not a good film, it's also just not over the top enough, or campy enough, or unique enough to leave much of an impression, even when compared to other films from the period.
I came expecting some trashy motorcycle mayhem and rode off sorely disappointed.
By the Psychomania I watched was not that film. Instead I wasted an hour and half watching a rather boring, rather tame film whose was not even nearly trashy enough to be entertaining. Whatever cult this film belongs to, I don't any part of it.
The highlight of Psychomania are probably the motorcycle stunts. The long boring stretches are livened up a bit by some genuinely impressive stuntwork and some really nice action shots. I do also like when the motorcycle gang goes "rampaging" through polite society, although the delinquency on display here practically feels tame, especially compared to that found in earlier work such as "A Clockwork Orange" or in other films from the early 70s.
Oh and the occult/horror bits? Well they are there. This is a frog. There is magic. People rise from the dead and kill other people. Except these zombies look exactly the same as when they were alive, and you never actually see how anyone is killed. Everyone just seems to drop dead from freight. Or maybe they just all just feel asleep watching this film.
There's really not much else to say. And that's the problem. Maybe this film once had it place, but there are so many better films from this era. Psychomania's problem is that, while it is definitely not a good film, it's also just not over the top enough, or campy enough, or unique enough to leave much of an impression, even when compared to other films from the period.
I came expecting some trashy motorcycle mayhem and rode off sorely disappointed.