mwilson1976 Review of The Death Wheelers

The Death Wheelers (1973)

Don Sharp's zombie biker horror is in a class of its own.

[6/10 · 21 March 2019]

Nicky Henon plays the leader of a biker gang called the Living Dead, who makes a pact with the Devil and uses it to win himself eternal life. His gang follow suit and join him on a rampage across the country. Would-be immortals have first to kill themselves, and if their faith wavers at the last moment they do not come back. Beryl Reid plays Hensons spiritualist mother, who holds seances in her living room and transforms into a frog. A lot of the action takes place at an imaginary stone circle near to Shepperton Studios, which many fans of the film still believe to be the Rollright Stones near Oxford. Despite awful reviews at the time of its release, Psychomania is a collision of mythology and modernism, in which the spirit of rebellious anarchy is both celebrated and ultimately, eerily punished, and remains a solid cult favourite.