The Nine Light: DVD Menu Artwork #1 Del Tenney

If you like old, cheesy, cheap B movies with crazy plot twists and makeshift ideas, then Del Tenney is definitely on your to-watch list. He produced some of the oddest horror films ever made, including THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, ZOMBIE, and in particular, PSYCHOMANIA, in which “The Living Dead motorcycle gang is on the rampage, wreaking havoc in their small English town. For gang leader Tom however, mere earthly violence is not enough: he's obsessed with the occult and is convinced that he can kill himself and then return from the dead -- with the help of a frog-worshipping cult and his séance-conducting mother. Remarkably, Tom succeeds and soon joins the ranks of the walking -- and riding -- dead!”

One thing constant about old b-movies is is how the poster art promised much more than the film actually delivered, as if the filmmakers put more money into designing the artwork to lure you in to the theatre than the making of the films themselves. Which makes them fun in a different, almost childlike interactive way. (In the old days before video games and CGI, when you were a kid, a stick wasn't just a stick, it was a Buck Rogers ray gun, and a rock was an unearthed jewel. Cars were monsters and shrubs were jungles.) What you saw on the poster was definitely NOT what you got, but the creative effort was appreciated someplace deep in our brains. As if your imagination helped the experience. Sure the films were clunky and over the top, but you accepted that going in – and your brain smoothed over the wires and the rubber suits. Today we expect more, rightly so, but back in the fifties there was still a kind of childlike innocence in our monster movies.