It feels like we have been suffering for weeks without a delightfully bad reprieve but when I look back, it has only been three weeks since the charming "Die Hard Dracula." I guess the last two weeks have been especially rough. Either way, this one may not be a classic of bad movies but it was a nice way to spend an evening if you like horrifying 80s aesthetic, heavy metal, and fakey Satanism. Which of course we do.In a backwoods suburban town, the teens are a-buzz with news that Black Roses, a popular heavy metal band that never plays lives shows, will be during a five(?) concert series at the high school, curiously paid for by the school board. Some parents are aghast because of the band's antisocial, anti-religious content but a few minutes into the first performance, nothing seems amiss so they leave, prompting the band to strip down to their leather harnesses and praise Satan. As the nights of concerts go on, the students seem to develop the ability to turn into demons but it's unclear how or why and they become increasingly more disobedient. One kills the principal after killing her mother, one seduces her friend's dad with strip poker and kills him, and one who's already obsessed with the mustachioed English teacher, kills the teacher's ex-girlfriend and tries to seduce him in his house before turning into a demon that he kills. She's somehow okay later in human form at the last Black Roses concert. The teacher goes to the concert to stop the demonic activity and seems to, but later Black Roses is playing Madison Square Garden so I guess nothing is fixed. Also, all those people are still dead. And we never find out if the kids were saved from their possession. And there's basically no closure.
This movie has all the 80s cheese you would want including silly acting (especially a man who is definitely in his 30s playing a teenager by just having too much energy), bad sound effects, and a plot that doesn't really make sense or go anywhere. Hail Satan?
Spoon Rating: 5
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