Saturday, April 4, 2015

Black Roses (1986)

How bad is it? Well, the soundtrack's okay, but it comes with a crap movie.
Should you see it? Yes, especially if you remember hair bands fondly.


Back when the Parents Music Resource Center started putting parental advisories on CDs, the idea of a band actually causing children to become monsters that kill their parents seemed like a good idea to someone. The band Black Roses, complete with impressive mullets, plays a small town and then the children start to become evil. There's a song by Lizzy Borden that gets played repeatedly, which suggests they had trouble getting the rights to music. The special effects aren't great, though much higher budget than in most films I review, and there are a few moments worth capturing: a guy gets sucked into a speaker, there's a beating with a gong hammer (the pom pom remains attached) and an English teacher kills a demon with a tennis racket.

No comments:

Post a Comment