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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 5h

Kitchen sink drama, landmark in queer cinema, and shot at the Ace Cafe! New blog post on The Leather Boys (1964). talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/t...

The Leather Boys

British youth culture in the late Fifties and early Sixties owed a tremendous debt to The Wild One, in much the same way that Elvis had changed everything. And while the low budget outlaw biker mov…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 5h

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 21: ‘Keep up!’ Punky goth #vampires on dirt bikes led by Kiefer Sutherland terrorise Santa Carla in Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987). #31daysofhalloween

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 1d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 20: And the hits just keep on coming… An ancient and malevolent force creates a legion of the living dead to reclaim the world in Todd Brunswick’s Biker Zombies from Detroit (2001). ‘Evil never looked so bad!’ #31daysofhalloween

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 2d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 19: ‘It’s like the whole town’s turned into zombies, vampires, walking dead, Republicans, ever since they came…’ Hair-removal-related shenanigans at Chez Yvonne in Michael Roush’s ultra-low-budget Hot Wax Zombies on Wheels (1999). #31daysofhalloween

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 9d

Seems like a good moment to reshare this. Some suggestions on age-appropriate scary movies for your kids and grandkids - or, indeed, great grandkids - this #Halloween... #Horror #Film #Parenting #SundayBlogs stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children

I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 3d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 18: Troma’s Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989). It’s exactly what it says on the tin. #31daysofhalloween

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 4d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 17: Triumph-riding bad boy Kevin Dillon takes over Steve McQueen’s role in Chuck Russell’s 1988 remake of The Blob. #31daysofhalloween

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 5d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 16: A serial killer stalks Spring Break on a Honda Goldwing with a pillion converted into an electric chair in Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare Beach (1989). #31daysofhalloween

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 6d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 15 - Yes, I am still doing this. Post-apocalyptic bikers take on radioactive mutant rats in Bruno Mattei’s glorious Italian Maxploitation-Splatter mash-up Rats: Night of Terror (1984). #31DaysOfHalloween

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 7d

‘Making a movie is casting a spell...’ New blog post just dropped on Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963). talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/s...

Scorpio Rising (1963)

While Eric Von Zipper was first doing his thing, a much more reverential project was coming together in LA on the underground film circuit. In a mere 28 minutes, Scorpio Rising (1963) by the gay av…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 7d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 14: In Ruggero Deodato’s surreal The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), punky Atlanteans on Japanese superbikes start purging humanity. It’s up to a trio of Vietnam vets and a couple of shipwrecked academics to sort this mess out.

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 8d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 13: Bike racing team and survivors of the first film Bobby and Ruby inexplicably return to the site of the original movie with predictable results in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985).

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 9d

Seems like a good moment to reshare this. Some suggestions on age-appropriate scary movies for your kids and grandkids - or, indeed, great grandkids - this #Halloween... #Horror #Film #Parenting #SundayBlogs stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/a...

A Parent’s Guide to Halloween Films for Children

I’ve been meaning to write this for years… As Halloween descends once more upon us, our 12-year-old son is horse-trading over what horror movies we’re going to let him see this year. Th…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 9d

Isn't it? So far ahead of the curve with zombie movies + Ray Lovelock is always excellent.

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 9d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 12: Bikers Ali, Fox, and Loco run into Jason Voorhees with a pitchfork and things do not end well in Friday the 13th Part III 3D (1982) – the ‘Friday’ film in which Jason acquires his trademark hocky mask. #Jason #Fridaythe13th

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 10d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 11: Norton-riding Ray Lovelock and Cristina Galbó run into #zombies created by experimental farm equipment in Jorge Grau’s The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue AKA Let Sleeping Corpses Lie; Don't Open the Window (1974).

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, I can relate #motorcycles to anything! #punk #poetry #JohnCooperClarke talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/p...

Psycle Sluts by John Cooper Clarke

In honour of the Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke, who I went to see perform in my hometown last night, I thought I’d share his wonderfully apocalyptic biker poem ‘Psycle Sluts’, from the 197…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 11d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 10: Italian #Giallo meets #Poliziottesco as a Ducati-riding serial killer stalks the streets of Rome in Massimo Dallamano’s What Have They Done To Your Daughters? (1974).

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 11d

Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 12d

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Race with the Devil, 1975

Race with the Devil (1975) is one of the few occult biker movies. It therefore occupies a tight huddle with Werewolves on Wheels (1971), Psychomania (1973), and I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990)…

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 12d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 9: Motorcycle dealers Peter Fonda and Warren Oates and their wives Loretta Swit and Lara Parker get on the wrong side of a satanic cult led by R.G. Armstrong in Race with the Devil (1975). #occult

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight. The Bard of Salford has been in my life so long, it feels like an old friend coming in from out of town. Or maybe it's just part of that shared culture. Us old punks have to stick together. We all lived that same lifetime. #punk #poetry

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 13d

#Halloween #Biker #Horror Challenge Day 8: Psychomania (1973) – On stone circles, devil worship, and the importance of doing the ton and holding it! Triumph-riding Nicky Henson learns the secret of the ‘Living Dead’ and resolves to wipe out the entire English Establishment.

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Stephen J Carver @drstephencarver.bsky.social · 14d

‘Nobody tells Eric Von Zipper nuthin’!’ Remembering hapless Wild One reject Eric Von Zipper of the 'Beach Party' movies. New blog post available now. talesfromaratbiker.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Ratz Revenge! Remembering Eric Von Zipper

After Elvis joined the army, teenagers got a makeover in the media and, like rock ’n’ roll, became a lot more clean-cut. This can be seen in AIP’s Beach Party (1963), a surprise hit that spawned a …

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