Sunday, January 23, 2011

Shock 'Em Dead (1991 93 minutes)

After the worst ever version of Purple Haze we see a horrible band with the horrible name of Spastique Colon trying out guitarists. Some nerd who can't play tries out but gets laughed at so he has this Voodoo woman put a spell on him that turns him into Total Rock Dude. Now he has a Sid Vicious poster on his wall and a TSOL t-shirt so he's all set and tries out again and blows the band away with his fretboard gymnastics. This must've been made during the height of the Joe Satriani/Yngwie Malmsteen phase in rock history because that's the only time that kind of butchery was considered awesome. Too bad the downside to all of this is that now he has to kill people and suck out their life force to keep going. If this was just another movie about vampires or witches i'd be bored but the completely overboard rock nonsense keeps me hooked. There's a rap song that's incredibly ridiculous, one of those total metal 2-necked guitars, that neon lime green color that was only popular in 1991, a guy with no shirt and suspenders like David Lee Roth, and another band called Creeping Flesh. It was even better the 2nd time I watched it.

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