Fucking cool as hell.
Can't believe I've never seen this one before.
Right up my alley.

You got Skippy from Family Ties in the lead role as a heavy metal outcast kid who is being bullied at school. His rock-n-roll idol "Sammi Curr" is burned up in a fire, but the local DJ Gene Simmons gives him Curr's never-been-released album which just might contain a curse that brings a vengeful Curr back to live to wreck havoc on his bullies... and others.

And a brilliant spot of casting when Ozzy Osbourne shows up briefly as a Reverend who is proselytizing on TV against that evil, Satanic Rock'n'Roll music. Nicely done. (PS... he shows up again after the credits for a brief second line or two, for those of you who watch through the credits for shit like that. I do.)

Directed by Charles Martin Smith - whom I've always known as the little nerdy guy from "American Graffiti" and "The Untouchables" - this movie strikes the perfect tone of 80's high school and heavy metal culture, plus the clashing of the various social hierarchies.

And some kick-ass chaos, deaths, sexy-times and terror along the way.

Hey! There's something for everyone! Hooray!

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Hoop #30 of CINEMONSTER's The Twelfth of Hooptober: Diary of a Madman

My Wild List and all my silly Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 12.0 List.

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