Psychomania titles
Psychomania is a British zombie biker horror film from 1973, directed by Don Sharp and starring Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid, George Sanders and Robert Hardy. In the United States, it was originally released as The Death Wheelers. From IMDb:
An amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an “undead”.
In a 2016 article for Film Inquiry, Cai Ross wondered if it’s “the greatest terrible movie ever made”.
Both the opening titles and the end crawl are exclusively set in Charleston. This reworking of the bold weight of Radium (Ludwig & Mayer, 1904) was conceived by Hace Frey and first cast by Ludwig & Mayer as Charleston in 1967. In or before 1971, Letraset competitor Mecanorma adopted the design for dry transfer lettering, which spurred its international dissemination. Charleston also was adopted for phototype, by Berthold and, relevant for this application, by Photoscript in London. For some reason (is it the bone-like strokes?), the Jugendstil revival developed into a popular choice for eerie topics, see e.g. Der Frauenhexer (1974) or Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980).
