Motorbikes are a staple of horror films.
A trope in fact.
They often crash, stranding the main characters in an evil place and as such start the eerie tale.
A good example of this can be found in the Legacy starring Sam Elliot, Katherine Ross and Roger Daltry of the Who no less.
The crash at the beginning can lead to much more gruesome events as in Canadian shocker Rabid by David Cronenberg.
A trope in fact.
They often crash, stranding the main characters in an evil place and as such start the eerie tale.
A good example of this can be found in the Legacy starring Sam Elliot, Katherine Ross and Roger Daltry of the Who no less.
The crash at the beginning can lead to much more gruesome events as in Canadian shocker Rabid by David Cronenberg.
Although not a crash, perhaps the most iconic of all horror bikes is Death riding a motorcycle in the Monkey's Paw from the original Tales from the Crypt.
Motorbikes became psychopomps in Psycomania, literally carrying the dead back from the grave. How society must have feared the black leather-jacket to have made a film like this. Hell's Angels!
Leather was sex itself in Girl on a Motorcycle as motorbikes became objects of desire in many films and not just horror.
and finally a film on my bucket list, the bikes really are the stars in Electra Glide in Blue.
Have you a favourite motorbike flick or do you know of any more horror bikes?
It's been a while since I saw Psychomania, Woodsy. Produced in the style of typical British horror of the period. I like it a lot :)
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