Back in the 80's heavy-metal was very scary to old people, church going kooks and conservative nutjobs and this film tries to cash in on that scary image. Of course nowadays it just all looks extremely silly. I'd always assumed this was some kinda slasher movie but it's really not so much. It's actually the story of a Satanic heavy metal band that turn a bunch of small-town high-school kids into homicidal killers. Things do get a little slashery here and there but I would call this more of a demonic possession kind of film since they also tend to turn into stupid-looking demons. Big Pussy from THE SOPRANOS shows up and gets promptly eaten by an insectoid speaker-demon and Tony Iommi from Vanilla Fudge plays drums in our hellspawn band. I think my favorite death bit here involves a guy whose heart explodes after he peeps a pair of bare tits. With an overload of dumb metal songs, some story elements lifted from INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and a final fight scene with rubber-suited monsters that looks like it belongs in a GODZILLA movie this might be slightly amusing just for it's cheese-factor but I think I'm gonna stick with HARD ROCK ZOMBIES if I wanna re-watch something dumb from the 80's crapheap.
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