Okay I'm not a very patient person. I was going to wait a week and let everyone comment on whether my two movies were real or not but I feel like crap and besides, my two readers responded and I think they deserve some praise because they BOTH were correct!
My little teenage slasher flick about rich kids playing in the snow and getting butchered one by one was a FAKE. Tim Forston noticed almost immediately, due to the clue I gave. Two of the characters names were Edward and Bella, which, even if you didn't watch the movies, you probably recognized as the main couple from the Twighlight movies.... he didn't have a title though - just make one up Tim, even if it's silly it's still fun. But you guessed right.
The zombie biker flick was REAL. Serious as a heart attack. Shay Coburn, my other reader guessed this one correctly: "This actually sounds like a horrible enough storyline to be a real flick, perhaps from the early 80's? I'm guessing it's real. I am a little thrown off by the frogs, though.. that's just weird. I would give it a corny title, like "The Secret of the Seven Witches" or how about "Dead Tom"?
Yeah, anyone would be thrown by the frogs, but I thought it was hilarious that the fact that she thought undead bikers, especially one zooming out of his grave on his bike was plausible enough to be true, though terrible. I didn't even mention the helmets with skulls and crossbones but each wore white goggles (Yikes!). The clue was that I hid the actual name of the movie in the synopsis. She was close, it is an older movie, and the title is corny. Check this out:
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| Warning: Undead bikers don't look like this. |
Psychomania (1971) A British horror film and cult film starring Nicky Henson as a devil worshipping gang leader and Robert Hardy as the detective in charge of bringing them in. It is also known as Death Wheelers Are... Psycho Maniacs (Australia) and The Death Wheelers (USA).
Tom Latham enjoys riding his motorcycle with his girlfriend and loves his mother, but he is no ordinary fellow. He is an amiable teen psychopath, clearly modeled on Alex of A Clockwork Orange fame. Like Alex, he has an unusual pet (a frog) and a distinctive catch phrase, "hello, little green friend."
Tom is the leader of a violent teen gang, which ride motorcycles and dabble in Black Magic, and call themselves "The Living Dead". In a similar vein, his mother and her sinister butler get their kicks out of holding séances in their home. With her help and following in his father's footsteps, Tom makes a pact with the devil to return from the dead. One by one, he and his fellow bikers commit suicide with the goal of returning as one of the "undead". Not all succeed but the ones who do, gather together at a secret place called "The Seven Witches" (a circle of standing stones), after which they continue to terrorize the locals.
This was one of the last films of George Sanders, who committed suicide soon after its completion.
Despite having a following amongst fans of cult British cinema, Nicky Henson (Tom) is publicly very critical of Psychomania.
So congrats to you both and let that be a lesson kiddies.... don't make movies about undead bikers who love frogs or you may end up killing yourself.
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