Thursday, November 24, 2011

Rocktober Blood (1984, Beverly Sebastian)

As a fairly obscure 80s slasher, I found "Rocktober Blood" to be better than I anticipated. That's not to say it's not stupid, cookie-cutter and a bit boring at times, but the slasher sub-genre is the one offshoot of horror that I am relatively undemanding towards.

A stuck up asshole rock n' roll vocalist snaps and kills some folks, resulting in him being executed for his crimes. Cut to two years later (by the way, the details this film glosses over are immense!), his fellow female singer - who just barely escaped his rampage - is invovled in the awaited tour of his former band Rocktober Blood and finds herself being terrorized by the supposidly dead front man who is still as murderous as before...

There's a few decent kill scenes. Many of which are subject to lingering (and somewhat tedious) suspense involving people wandering around cautiously calling out "Hello" and all that kinda cliche shit. Little bit of rear view nudity of a tan-lined lady buttocks as well as some surprisingly catchy rock musical performances that are as laughable as they are awesome. Killer on the Loose and Rainbow Eyes are definatly my new "favs". The sorry thing is, they really phoned in the very end. Fucking pitiful.

Still, I urge slasher fans to peep this one. It's goofy and stupid, but enjoyable.

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