“Rock’s chosen warriors will rule the apocalypse!”
Eddie “Ragman” Weinbauer is a pathetic highschooler obsessed with the controversial shock- rock star Sammi Curr (basically Marilyn Manson before Marilyn Manson). Almost as soon as we get to know him Eddie is stricken with grief. News reports that his idol Curr has suddenly died. His friend the radio DJ Nuke (Gene Simmons) gives him a copy of Curr’s last recording on acetate record. He plans to play that same album on Halloween’s eve, in midnight, so Eddie has a chance to hear it before anyone else.
Predictably he gets bullied at school, in fact this time they throw him in a female locker room naked. Cute girl… does get friendly with him afterwords so I guess it wasn’t all a loss.In fact she asks him to come to the pool party that same nigh. Predictably he gets thrown into that same pool by bullies and even thou the girl jump in to save him he is still pissed at everybody.
After that ordeal Eddie falls asleep listening to the Curr’s final record and dreams of him performing some kind of crazy satanic ceremony. He wakes up to the weird skipping of the record and tries to play it backwords expecting some king of hidden message. Well, he gets more than he bargained for!
He heeds the message and tomorrow in the cafeteria stands up to bullies and as they chase him the number of strange accidents befall them.
Eddie continues playing the record back and now it’s becoming obvious that Curr is in fact speaking to him from beyond the grave. Bullies try to corner him again in tool shed but they almost get killed by the machines. Even the girl of one of those ends up in the hospital. His mother finally figures out his record collection is EVIL even thou he was collecting it for years.
I also love the fact that the girl doing her damnedest to hook up with him but he’s being too full of himself to even notice. Finally realizing Curr’s power is too strong and he can’t control it Eddie tries to run away from him but Curr can’t be controlled. Stereo starts working all by itself and after soda spills on the record and creates an electrical surge that gives him energy to fully cross over to our world!
Notice the Preacher Ozzy in the background.
Afraid he tasked his dorky Jewish friend with destroying the tape. Unfortunately curiosity got the better of him and he played it- Curr shows up like Shocker from the TV.
Curr forces him to take the tape to the school dance. As you imagine nothing good comes out of it. Curr shows up (from the amp?) and starts rocking the place. That includes disintegrating people with lighting coming out of his guitar. I am not shitting you!
Eddie and his girl realize that the only way to stop them is to prevent the radio station from playing his record at midnight. He tries to stop them with his electricity and Ragman ends up in water with his car but in the end the only remaining tape is destroy and with it his power.
Verdict: Movie is pure 80s cheese so if you’re into that kind of a stuff, you came to the right place. And soundtrack/ music from Fastway ( featuring “Fast” Eddie Clarke of Motorhead) complements that atmosphere rather well.
Trivia: And I would be remiss it I didn’t point out beautiful irony of having Ozzy Osbourne cameoing as a TV-evangelist/ moral crusader and he does a damn good job! Not something you would expect from the Prince of Darkness.
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