I Love Being a Horror Fan!

August 23, 2024 by Jon Kitley in Misc. Ramblings and tagged Akelarre, All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2, Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit, Beauty and the Beast, Blood Tea and Red String, Born of Fire, David Gregory, Demon, Edge of the Knife, From the Old Earth, Io Island, Litan, Nang Nak, Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf, November, Psychomania, Scales, Severin Films, Sundelbolong, Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic, The City of the Dead, The Enchanted, The Legend of Hillbilly John, The Ninth Heart, The Rites of May, The White Reindeer, To Fire You Come at Last, Who Fears the Devil | Leave a comment

Since I’m on the verge of hitting the big 60 next year and have been a horror film fan most of my life, watching as many different films as possible over those 6 decades, one would think that I’d be close to seeing everything, right! WRONG! Therein lies the beauty of the horror genre, or really cinema in general. If they stopped making movies today, we would still not be able to see all the films out there that we haven’t seen yet. And to prove this, is the latest stunning box set announced by Severin Films today, All Haunts be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Vol. 2.

The first set was amazing enough, especially with the deep diving documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, that opened up the doors to so many films. And now, Severin has done it again with volume 2, that features 13 discs, with 24 international folk horror classics! As I mentioned, I’ve been in the game a long time and there were many of these titles that I was not familiar with at all. That is why I never get tired of the horror genre. There is always more to discover.

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Movie Review: Psychomania

February 14, 2017 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Movies and tagged Arrow Video, Death Wheelers, Don Sharp, Nicky Henson, Psychomania | Leave a comment

Psychomania (1973)
Directed by Don Sharp
Starring George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Roy Holder, Robert Hardy, Patrick Holt, Denis Gilmore, Ann Michelle, Miles Greenwood, Peter Whitting, Rocky Taylor

The film, also known as The Death Wheelers, is about a biker gang that call themselves The Living Dead, that tools around England causing the usually sort of trouble like forcing cars off the road and just being royal pains. But their leader Tom is getting bored with the normal stuff. In fact, he often thinks of doing something really wild like killing himself. When he learns a little secret from his mother, that if you really believe that you’ll come back when you kill yourself, you will. It’s apparently that simple. Even better though is when you do rise from the grave, you can’t die and seem to be super strong. So he convinces the rest of his gang to follow his lead, in usually interesting ways.

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Psychomania Rides Again…on Blu-ray!

January 16, 2017 by Jon Kitley in Misc. Ramblings and tagged Arrow Video, Don Sharp, George Sanders, Psychomania, The Death Wheelers | Leave a comment

Fans of ’70s British horror films are well aware of the 1973 film Psychomania, also known as The Death Wheelers! Director Don Sharp gives us not just a film about a ruthless gang of bikers, but undead bikers! Sharp gave us a The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), and Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) for Hammer Studios, but also gave us two treasures that don’t get enough love, Witchcraft (1964) and Curse of the Fly (1965).

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