I bought a vampire motorcycle

Title - I bought a vampire motorcycle
Language - English
Genre - Horror, comedy

Nick Oddy (noddy to his friends) has just bought a new, slightly damaged motorcycle & when he gets it home it doesn’t want to start and some has nicked the petrol cap, also the fuel tank appears to be covered in Tomato ketchup.  The Next morning Noddy goes to fix the bike and finds that the petrol cap is back on.  Whilst at work he gets a phone call to go to his friend’s house and when he gets there he finds that his friend has been killed.

After fixing the bike Noddy takes it out for a test run, everything is going fine until he passes a group of Hells Angels.  As he passes them bike seems to take on a life of it’s own and runs them off the road.  As time goes on the bike starts have odd behaviour, it doesn’t always start or it stops suddenly, it seems to move on its own and, if it’s parked on the street overnight it’s found in the garage the next morning.  The problems get really bad when the bike drives away from the FU-King Chinese takeaway, taking Kim, Noddys girlfriend with it.  After throwing Kim off the bike goes on a rampage leaving Noddy to try to find a way of stopping it.

I bought a Vampire motorcycle is a good little comedy horror that has a clever monster which has a fun and thought through origin which is a concept that is sometimes missing from some low budget horror movies and the story has a good progression.  We are not thrown straight into any violence but the sense of threat builds up as the story progresses and even though we know from the film’s title and from the first scene that the bike is going to be the monster we are never sure how it is going to manifest until it happens.

As well as having a good story vampire motorcycle manages to pay homage to a couple of the classic horror movies, there are dream sequences that are slightly reminiscent of ‘An American Werewolf in London’ and the scenes where priest sets up the protection in the hospital and the nurse takes it back down are taken from Dracula.

Vampire Motorcycle has a very British feel to it (it was filmed in Birmingham and has a British cast) with a good mix of humour and gore with a good number of decapitations, people getting cut in half and arrows up the bum mixed with on screen  gags, throw away one liners and a talking Poo.

I would recommend I bought a vampire motorcycle to anyone who likes movies that don’t take themselves too seriously & to people who like vampire movies.