Black Roses (1988)
Famous glam rock band The Black Roses is booked to play their first (?) live shows at its hometown local high school. While all the teens are stoked that their favorite band chose their sleepy small town for their first ever live concert, the parents are less than enthused with The Black Roses and their seemingly demonic lead singer Damien. The teachers and mayor stick by "Free speech" while the parents protest. When the band shows up for the show, the PTA and other authoritative adults attend only to find a Michael Bolton type in a Don Johnson suit singing power ballads. They shrug their shoulders at this harmless lite-rocker and bolt for the exit. That's when Damien strips down to a kinkier outfit (think Cher in "If I Could Turn Back Time) and The Black Roses crank out the hard rock. The kids in the crowd go wild. When the band stays in town to do more three more shows, the kids' become increasingly zombie-like and violent. Their English teacher starts to think that maybe the PTA was right and the kids are becoming possessed by Leotarded Damien and his rocknroll. by ThrownMuse
This is not, (NOT) the biography of "The Partridge Family."
Dilbert Thockmeyer
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J S commented
Classic 80s Satanic panic at it's absolute finest. Grab your one way ticket to hell in a hand basket and watch Small-town uSA turn into the ninth circle of Hades when Black Roses (the demonic crooners that have every teen in town enraptured enough in their music to turn a blind eye at the ghastly transformation of their peers into other wordly beings possessed by the devil) come to town to kick off their US tour. Between the feathered bangs, cheesy special effects, hair metal, and 30 year old high school students, this is prime content for riffing.
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Dilbert Thockmeyer
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Movie Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxACTj1iNyc
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Mike Paine
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This film plays on the PMRC-era irrational fear of explicit rock lyrics poisoning the fragile minded youth complete with ignorant prudish parents and the rebellious easily influenced high school teens. The only nuance is that the famous band "Black Roses" decide to start their world tour in tiny Mill Basin's high school auditorium!! They do have ulterior motives though...turn into Gwar-like monsters then possess the kids of Mill Basin and beyond with their sinister heavy metal concerts! Mission accomplished, kind of..despite teacher Mr Moorhouse's (John Martin) attempts to save the day with his strange ramblings about American Literature! By the way...in some of the classroom scenes what gives with the bird chirping too loudly at inopportune times? Hellooo foley artist! The kids eventually start killing the pesky parents and faculty that get in their way. How can you deny the humor in the Soprano's very own "Big P*$$y" Vincent Pastore in his first movie role as angry dad Mr Ames getting eaten by an evil monster living in his son's Cerwin-Vega speaker? All he wanted to do was read the evening paper! Believe it or not, things get even weirder. What's the best way to kill topless Julie-turned-catmonster? Beat her with a tennis racket then shove a tennis ball in her mouth of course! Black Roses "playing" (ok, lip-syncing) the Lizzy Borden classic -Me Against The World- as the rallying cry for the band-turned-demons was fun! You'll also see drumming legend Carmine Appice...I mean..."Vinny Apache" deliver a couple of lines!! Please riff this gem from the folks who brought you Rock N Roll Nightmare & Zombie Nightmare!
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tsarstepan commented