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7A
A band of 70's English bikers who call themselves “the Living Dead” discover a strange phenomenon. Due to a deal the leader's mother made with a flying frog (or maybe it was the devil, it's kind of hard to discern), the leader finds out that if he kills himself and truly believes he'll return from the dead then he will. So after he kills himself and is buried sitting upright on his bike, he returns to life ala Ghost Rider and starts doing wacky crime shenanigans. He then rallies his old gang and tells them that if they do as he did that they'll become immortal psychopaths too. So much of the gang kills themselves in really stupid ways (like jumping out a 16 th story window, Going swimming with 40 pounds of chains, or blasting their own head off with a shotgun), and most of them come back. The leader's girlfriend tries to do herself in with pills, but is revived before she dies and doesn't want to try it again. Meanwhile, the now immortal biker gang starts going crazy and doing really horrible crimes, like running over babies in grocery stores, cutting out the tires of a driving semi with a pocket knife, and pretending to hang themselves. Soon the gang discovers that the leader's girlfriend is still alive and they plan to kill her, but luckily at that point the leader's mother resends her deal with the frog and turns into a frog herself, and all the gang members turn into Stonehenge
Moment of madness: One of the “fun pranks” the biker's pull is that they decide to run headlong into a brick wall with their bikes. When they hit the walls they bust through, utterly demolishing the wall while receiving not even a scratch to them or their bikes (which I'll remind you, the bikes never committed suicide to the devil frog)
Bullshit or Reel? |
Reel, the movies name is “Psychomania”, and I lied a bit on the main page, I used some screen captures from the movie for this section |
7B
After a short intro involving a midget being interrogated by the police for his involvement in some unknown incident, the movie opens on a revolution at a midget mental institution (which is for some reason designed for people of normal proportions). The tiny tenants trap the head of the institute (also a midget) in his office, where he's taken a consistently cackling patient as a hostage. With no authority left in their homestead, the dwarfs run ramped through the bizarre (seemingly apocalyptic) landscape, going more and more insane, until they go on a violent rampage and begin destroying and burning everything. During their possession of the institute, the tenants do some strange things like dressing a bug collection in tiny suits, crucifying a monkey, and setting a car to drive around by itself in circles for hours until their riot, where they push it down into what looks like a chasm straight to hell.
Moment of madness: There are constant shots of feral chickens running around doing really creepy things. In one scene a one-legged chicken is trying to eat the corpse of another while fending off other chickens, who are trying to eat it. It's really kinda unsettling.
Bullshit or Reel? |
Reel, the movie is called “Even Dwarfs Started Small,” by Herzog of all people (Fritz Coraldo, Aguirre the wrath of God, Grizzly man). This was the second movie ever to have an exclusively midget cast, the first one was a western called “Terror of tiny town”
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