Psychomania

Last night I was watching a documentary show about the really low budget British "B" movies, some of which looked so bad they were really quite funny. The documentary was followed by a 1972 'horror' film called Psychomania, directed by Don Sharp. The film is about a biker gang called 'The Living Dead' (who wear helmets painted like skulls). Their leader's mother (played by Beryl Reid) is a frog-worshipping occultist who tells her son how to 'come back' after death, and so the son kills himself, and is buried sitting on his bike while his gang have a kind of hippy sing-along. However he comes back to life and persuades the rest of the gang to die and come back as undead zombies and go on a rampage (which seems to consist of tipping over traffic cones and riding around inside a supermarket). The film is so badly made, it's actually really funny, complete with a cast of vaguely familiar TV faces in supporting roles, special effects that would shame a 1970s episode of Doctor Who and the most well-spoken biker gang in cinema. Although any film which features zombie bikers and ghost frogs can't be completely devoid of interest.

After the film I saw this week's episode of Doctor Who, which was really good. I am really looking forward to next weeks story.

I went along to my parent's house for lunch, as usual for a Sunday. We had tacos which was nice. The new issue of Fortean Times had arrived in the mail during the week, so that was pretty interesting. I always like that magazine. I've had a subscription for thirteen years now. We went to a shopping mall in the afternoon, because my parents are going down to London during the week and wanted to get a birthday present for my brother's girlfriend. I bought myself a book called My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith. It basically consists of just over a year's worth of blog posts by Kevin Smith. We went to the food court and I had a glass of coke and a plain scone with butter nad jam. We could see out the window and watch a couple of tug boats in the harbour leading away a large cruise liner. It was kind of fun to see.