Scary Hair Metal Movies for Rocktober
October 22nd, 2007 | 8:04 am est |
Inspired by the recent release of Dethklok’s The Dethalbum, a brutal combination of metal and gore, and with Halloween impending, here’s a very scary list of craptastic heavy metal horror movies for your viewing displeasure. Thirteen of ‘em, to be exact. Unlucky you.
- Trick or Treat: Marc Price (Skippy from Family Ties) is a metalhead that becomes possessed by a deceased rock idol after listening to “Songs in the Key of Death” on Halloween. Gene Simmons and Ozzy make cameos.
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare: A heavy metal rocker (played by Canadian bodybuilder Thor) wants to lay down tracks for his new album, but the demons aren’t havin’ it. In an epic battle, they throw satanic starfish at his pecs.
- Hard Rock Zombies: A convoluted but joyously campy plot involving a sexy hitchhiker, a switchblade yielding werewolf, a pair of dwarves, Adolf Hitler, and of course, hard rockin’ zombies.
- Black Roses: Beelzebub, disguised as a hair-metal singer (who looks a little like Adam Curry) brainwashes small town teenagers to kill their parents and teachers.
- The Gate: Stephen Dorff opens the gates to hell by playing a heavy metal record backwards. Typical.
- Slumber Party Massacre 2: A heavy metal baddie with a power-drill guitar wreaks havoc on a female rock group’s slumber party. Hence the title.
- Slaughterhouse Rock: A deceased rock star’s ghost (Toni Basil) helps a teenager fight a cannibal demon… in Alcatraz!!!
- Terror on Tour: Some metal bands salute their fans that are about to rock; the Clowns threaten to kill them.
- Shock ‘em Dead: A wannabe rocker sells his soul to a Voodoo priestess to win the heart of lust-worthy Traci Lords. Evil ensues.
- Scream Dream: Rock sensation Michelle Shock (not Michelle Shocked) fights a demon that looks like a hand puppet with black magic.
- Rocktober Blood: An evil rock star named Billy Eye does his best Rob Halford impression and terrorizes from the dead.
- Monster Dog: Alice Cooper and a monster dog. ‘Nuff said.
- Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal: Following a heavy metal concert on a 747, the lead singer shoots the pilot. It’s not really a horror movie, but it’s scary, nonetheless.
Black Roses is worth if for a laugh and Monster Dog for the opening number with Alice Cooper’s hundred costume changes (I like the Sherlock Holmes outfit myself). I have somehow missed all those other cinema classics, though I might have to track down Hard Rock Zombies now.
13 seems appropriate somehow. And it’s been a while since Marc Price was a source of inspiration.
I dug your post so much I linked to it from our Halloween production music update at Burst Labs.
Really a fantastic job on this list! So far, so good on your blog, guys. :)
“Turbulence 3″ is surprisingly enjoyable, even if the rock star character is a hell of a lot like Alice Cooper circa “Brutal Planet”. He even uses an electric chair in his performance, and the song he sings (something like “Just Shoot Me, Baby”) is very much like Alice’s “Blow Me a Kiss”. Naturally, there’s a lot of Marylin Manson thrown in for good measure.
Speaking of Alice, and it may be a shitty non-music related movie, but “Prince of Darkness” features a fun performance and cool song from the Coop. He also steals the show as Freddy Kruger’s father in “Freddy’s Dead”.