The plan the police had was to have Abby at the morgue after telling Tom on the phone that Abby was dead. The Inspector's plan was to lure Tom to the morgue and apprehend him. This didn't quite go as planned.
Hatchet, Bertam, Chopped Meat & Gash just happened to be in the freezers in the morgue at the time, with the police completely unaware that they were just about to make Lazarus-like resurrections.
The camera starts on the members of the Living Dead in the freezer, then pans around slowly, indicating the passage of time, and when the camera finally pans 360 degrees, the freezers are now occupied by members of the police.
Tom (presumably assisted by Jane) had entered the place, taken Abby, got the rest of the gang out of the freezers, killed all the police in the place and escaped.
Hope this clears things up for you!
K & N
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markrob-3
16 years ago
I rented the dvd from Netflix and they advertise it as the Euroshock collection but when my dvd arrived it was a Geneon print and the yes the seance scene is missing. The quality of the first reel is scratchy compared to the rest of the film. The sound track in the scene with Tom and Abbey in the graveyard and back at Tom's home is quite "poppy". The second reel which starts with the riding around the stones (at about 16 minutes) before the town centre scene is much better.
I have an awful VHS print that cost a lot of money at the time annd runs at extended long play - very fuzzy but it has the missing seance scene on it.
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markrob-3
16 years ago
I rented the dvd from Netflix and they advertise it as the Euroshock collection but when my dvd arrived it was a Geneon print and the yes the seance scene is missing. The quality of the first reel is scratchy compared to the rest of the film. The sound track in the scene with Tom and Abbey in the graveyard and back at Tom's home is quite "poppy". The second reel which starts with the riding around the stones (at about 16 minutes) before the town centre scene is much better.
I have an awful VHS print that cost a lot of money at the time annd runs at extended long play - very fuzzy but it has the missing seance scene on it.
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Electric_Mayhem_86
16 years ago
Sorry Nestor, I usually dont like to do this but the scene you are describing is incorrect.
Hatchet, Bertram, Chopped Meat and Gash has already left the morgue. Remember the scene where the doctor and his assistant had the one who drowned - Gash i think, on the table and they were checking that he had drowned with the syringe. Doc gets phone call from wife so he leaves room to talk to her while assistant left alone, he can hear someone knocking and is surprise to see Hatchet smiling and waving at him, doc returns from phone call to find the syringe and swimming trunks on the door with his assistance lying on the floor.
When they lay the trap with Abby it is just her on the table surrounded by the 3 policemen and the inspector guy.
I never know if they are dead or just unconscious but i presume them to be dead.
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jguz58
14 years ago
I agree with your correction of Nestor. But I never thought the policemen were dead. I took it that they hid there to keep an eye on Abby as part of the trap, but Abby was whisked out of there more quietly than they expected.
Incidentally, I'm from the USA and the version I currently have is called Psychomania, I've never known it by any other name. I have it on DVD now, it's part of the EuroShock Collection, and it does have the seance scene and the 3 questions Tom asks Shadwell about. I used to have it on VHS too, and I think I recorded it off TV many years ago, but don't quote me. But even that version had both of these scenes that some editions seem to cut out.
A friend told me about this film back in the late 70s or early 80s, and it's always been a great part of my collection ever since. Cheers!
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