He proceeds to take it home and fix the damage caused by the crossbow alongside his friend, named Buzzer, and Kim.

Ten members of the motorbike gang from the beginning of the film enter the bar, and one of the bikers shoots the building with the crossbow.

When it notices a crucifix around her neck, the bike drives back to the pub, where the a member of the motorcycle gang attempts to steal it.

The bike stabs the leader through the leg with a large metal spike, then launches him at some graffiti artists.

The bike then proceeds to decapitate the majority of the biker gang, leaving only one member, named Roach, alive.

Kim uses her crucifix to scare the vampire bike away, so it goes after Roach, passing the priest and inspector in the corridor of the hospital.

Noddy then bashes the bike, which feigns death, making everyone feel safe until it starts throwing people's limbs in the air.

[3] Director Dirk Campbell stated that he "wanted the film to have the look of a serious horror movie, a dark gritty realistic look that used the decaying back streets of Birmingham, so there's nothing that jumps out at you to tell you it's a comedy".

[1] I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle was released theatrical in the United Kingdom during July 1990; the film had low box office returns and grossed only £19,193 in its opening week.

while stating that "there is no justification for including the scene in which the bike pursues a high heeled prostitute down a dark alley.

Clive Davies reviewed the film in Spinegrinder, praising its special effects and calling it "Silly and often (knowingly) corny" and that it "slowly grows on you, and is quite good fun by the final reel".

[7] In 2000, Kim Newman reviewed the movie for Empire, comparing the movie to Pete Walker's Frightmare and Norman J. Warren's Satan's Slaves and writing that it represented "a trashy but sometimes vital British horror tradition diametrically opposed to the Home Counties politeness of the Hammer Films.