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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

  • 1990
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
1.7K
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Anthony Daniels, Michael Elphick, Neil Morrissey, and Amanda Noar in I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)
When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengeance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.
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When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact v... Read allWhen a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengeance on the gang.When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengeance on the gang.

  • Director
    • Dirk Campbell
  • Writers
    • Mycal Miller
    • John Wolskel
  • Stars
    • Neil Morrissey
    • Amanda Noar
    • Michael Elphick
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    1.7K
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    • Director
      • Dirk Campbell
    • Writers
      • Mycal Miller
      • John Wolskel
    • Stars
      • Neil Morrissey
      • Amanda Noar
      • Michael Elphick
    • 27User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Neil Morrissey
    Neil Morrissey
    • Noddy
    Amanda Noar
    • Kim
    Michael Elphick
    Michael Elphick
    • Inspector Cleaver
    Anthony Daniels
    Anthony Daniels
    • Priest
    Andrew Powell
    • Roach
    George Rossi
    • Chopper
    Daniel Peacock
    • Buzzer
    Midge Taylor
    • First Road Toad
    David Daker
    David Daker
    • Desk Sergeant
    Burt Kwouk
    Burt Kwouk
    • Fu King Owner
    Brendan Donnison
    Brendan Donnison
    • Satanist High Priest
    Graham Padden
    • P.C. Ben E. Dorm
    Paula Ann Bland
    Paula Ann Bland
    • Hospital Nurse
    • (as Paula-Ann Bland)
    Teddie Thompson
    • Hospital Sister
    Terence Budd
    • Bike Shop Dealer
    Ann Casson
    Ann Casson
    • Mrs. Bancroft
    Douglas Campbell
    • Mr. Bancroft
    Richard Smith
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    • Director
      • Dirk Campbell
    • Writers
      • Mycal Miller
      • John Wolskel
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    User reviews27

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    walkeraudio

    Brilliant film!

    This was one of the best b-films I've seen for a long time, with humorous references to classic sixties biker/horror films such as Psychomania and The Damned, more than a few hilarious one liners, and Neil Morrisey before he was famous. And anyone who has actually owned and ridden a Norton like the star of the film, will know exactly where the writers are coming from. Rent it now - highly recommended for an evenings dvd entertainment.
    10hugodrax

    Great fun movie, with a "don't care" attitude

    I've caught this movie quite a few times and I always enjoy it. It's the tale of a despatch rider (played by Neil Morrisey) who buys a demonically possessed motorcycle that runs on blood instead of petrol. It's a silly idea fleshed out with great characters; a comedy vicar (played by Anthony Daniels) and fine comic copper (Michael Elphick). The films cheap, but resolutely cheerful and the overall effect is very pleasing. Particularly good apres pub viewing. I'd recommend it.
    7randalthor1812

    Enjoyable

    An enjoyable romp by the cast of Boon who are obviously enjoying themselves in a silly but entertaining horror.

    Not to be taken seriously , not the greatest horror , a definite B-Movie as it was supposed to be , so for me it hits the targets .

    If you liked Boon a motorcycle courier and almost Rockford files English TV programme with Michael Elphick and Neil Morrisey just shot in Nottingham rather than Birmingham which the film is then u will probably enjoy the actors hamming it up.

    Reminded me of some of the old Dracula films by Hammer , but using a motorbike instead of a foreign Count and that i think is what it is a Homage to Hammer by a TV cast using cheap effects and filming worth watching just don't expect too much.
    8Shrike-10

    For anybody who needs to give their brain a rest

    I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is the definition of "Good Bad", from the title that describes the entire plot, to the broad-brush performances, to the suspension of disbelief that comes when you know the budget is laughably small, but you *don't care*. Those who love the work of Troma will discover that the British can do the same thing, and with even more gore and humour.

    Neil Morrissey, pre "Men behaving Badly", plays Noddy, an innocent young Birmingham motorbike courier who buys a classic Norton with a dark history. What follows provides a hilariously imaginative reworking of every scene you'd expect from a self-respecting vamp flick, but on two wheels and set in Birmingham. The special effects are zero-budget but enthusiastic, and the title creature in its mutated hunting guise is a highly impressive piece of kit, complete with Ancient Briton-style axle blades. Morrissey looks as terrified and bemused as the script requires him to be, but the film is stolen by Anthony "C3PO" Daniels as a camply gung-ho biker exorcist, complete with razor-sharp throwing-crosses. Michael Elphick provides sterling support as a Sweeney-esque copper with a life-saving taste in snacks. As the punk rock soundtrack pounds (complete with inevitable theme song "She Runs On Blood...She Don't Run On Gasoline) and the severed heads of Hells Angels fly across the screen, you will revel in thrills, spills, cheap sexual innuendo, and low comedy. See it.
    5Cinema_Fan

    It pulls you in. Then sucks you dry.

    Films such as this, simply made and at low cost, can go either way as to insult your intelligence or titillate your senses of fun and humour. This particular genre, the British independent film genre, is taken to lower levels and with good company such as "Psychomania" aka "Death Wheelers" (1973) that rolls along with Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid (1919-1996) and George Sanders (1906-1972), joining the shenanigans "Come Play with Me" (1977) has Mary Millington (1945-1979) jumping on more than the band-wagon, too, Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook in the half-baked "Sex Lives of the Potato Men" (2004) and the whiter-than-white "The Calcium Kid" (2004) delivered to us by a young Orlando Bloom making an all too disinvite crease in this celluloid bargain-basement bin genre.

    It's all been done before; the highest example for this accolade is the winning team of the exceptionally successful English comedy franchise the "Carry On..." films (all Pinewood Studios shot) spanning thirty years (1958-1978). For decades this British tradition of slap-stick, innuendoes, double entendre and low-brow wit regurgitated as it may feel never feels drawn-out but is highly additive cinema indeed; it's a language all of its own.

    "I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle" is no different, but it tries its hardest not to excluded itself from this pile. It fits into all the niches that brings this into the fold. On the surface this comes over as rather unsophisticated and that is exactly what it is. It holds no punches set against its downfalls of low budget production and simpleminded script. Saying this, this does not make for a poor, dull and unoriginal score. Bearing in mind its premise is extremely original and this is its draw and fascination.

    A British Norton Commando motorcycle inadvertently becomes the harbinger of death and commands a thirst of a bloodlust that brings laughs from the bottom of the barrel to casually float to the top with the classic British one-liner technique. While not smutty, its sarcasm and target-audience clichés hold up the lowest common denominator and delivers its strength and keeps the stakes deeply pushed into the heart of this quirky little motor with a few nuts & bolts of its own to give this production a slant of personality.

    To surpass beyond the pale of barrow-boy antics we see that the pièce de résistance is most definably the art of the cameo. Here we see film and television personalities as Burt Kwouk (1930-2016) "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975) etc, "Tenko" and Ed Devereaux (1925-2003) "Skippy" plus a unusually cast, but a undeniably surreal highlight, Anthony Daniels "Star Wars (1977) as a trike riding priest to raise an eyebrow of intrigue and surprise.

    This is certainly a film of night or day, with such a captivating title as "I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle", it draws you in to entice you to its curiosity. Being what it is, it holds no pretentious misgivings as to what you are getting. You may reach the fork in the road and on seeing this you may, you can, then decide if you were humoured or simply taken for a ride.

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    • Trivia
      Only one set was built for this film. The bulk of this movie was shot on existing practical locations.
    • Goofs
      When Kim (Amanda Noar) brings the cups of tea out to the workshop after Noddy and Buzzer unload the bike from the van, she calls Noddy "Neil" by mistake - Neil Morrissey being the actor's name. He was also Amanda Noar's husband at the time.
    • Quotes

      Noddy: [after leaving the Chinese takeaway] Where that bloody tart gone with my bike?

    • Connections
      Featured in The James Whale Radio Show: Horror (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Are You Ready Yet
      Written and Performed by Dean Friedman

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    • Release date
      • 1990 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Iron Thunder
    • Filming locations
      • 1 Sycamore Road, Smethwick, West Midlands, England, UK(Noddy's and Kim's house)
    • Production company
      • Dirk Productions Ltd.
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    • Budget
      • £320,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 41m(101 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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