The music in this movie does have a lasting appeal to anyone whom might have grown up knowing what a metal band was and how some mentally-unadept children reacted to songs by such bands. As for those of us though that appreciated the music for the artistry and show of the music itself, it is one HELL of a ride!
Like any great theme ride, you must have a feature, or in the case of this movie….Three! Ozzy “The Self-Proclaimed Prince Of Darkness” Osbourne as a Baptist Preacher protesting the very music which he helped to make famous throughout the world was a total hoot! I laughed until I cried in seeing him “dolled up” in such a ludicrous role. Gene Simmons, of KISS fame, as “Nuke”, an overworked disk-jockey whom befriends the anti-hero in this film was an absolute pleasure (must have been his vacation).
Then there was the performance of Tony Fields as the “Devil Worshipping” rocker who comes back from the dead to gain revenge on a small town that refuses him a gig at the local High School’s Halloween Dance, total hillarity! While the primise of this film are totally ludacrous, the music spells out the time in which this film was made. Poinient and precise is all I can say about the soudtrack which was masterfully performed by the band Fastway!
If one listens to the soundtrack closely one can get the meaning of each and every song!
The soundtrack follows in the footsteps of the band W.A.S.P. and thier movement against the “Washington Wives” and all of those “Parental Advisory” stickers we now see on music and movies today. Censorship in any format is wrong and this “Horror Parody” proves as such!
