Friday, April 29, 2011

Demon Queen (1986 54 minutes) / Scream Dream (1989 69 minutes)

In Demon Queen, a woman who was probably third runner up in the local Pat Benatar lookalike contest is some sort of demon vampire who likes to take guys to hotel rooms,  rip their hearts out, and smear the blood all over herself.  She hooks up with lowly drug dealer Jesse and chaos ensues. This is all full of crazy jump cuts and music edits, a seriously long dream sequence with the synthesizer left on autopilot, a deformed midget drug dealer in a tie and blue jeans, a completely out of place visit to a video store to discuss the merits of Make Them Die Slowly, sound effects from a ping pong battle in an outer space vacuum chamber, a mall food court hookup  montage, the hit song 'let me be your angelfire' a bunch of nasty throat rippings, and yet another visit to that video store - all of this happens in less than a hour and if you take away the opening and closing credits and that dream sequence it happens in about 25 minutes. Genius.
The band Rikk-O-Shay had it made. They had a hit in 'Scream Dream', a burly ex-football player type guitarist with a cool white striped Explorer, not one but two fancy dancing backup singers, fans who 'think Van Halen is elevator music' and a big tour lined up. Too bad their lead singer, Michelle Shock, is a devil worshipper who's into human sacrifice. Her number one fan steals his girlfriend's car payment money to go see the concert and she repays him by sprouting demon hands and then biting his johnson off. The she gets fired from the gig for being so crazy so she goes to the county fair to pick up some more studs to sacrifice. The one backup singer with the fringed leather jacket and white turtleneck (he looks like the one armed guy from Def Leppard - but with both arms) has to kill her, but her one hand crawls away and a rubbery demon puppet mouth chews on stuff. Meanwhile, the band is still sweating it out making background music like an endless doom metal / sabbath riff and then their manager hires a new singer who promptly gets possessed by the Michelle Shock demon. At their next gig they perform their new hit 'Ballbuster for your love' before the new singer commits groupie-cide on a couple of faces. Can she be stopped so the tour can continue? This is so great that the 'angelfire' song even makes a cameo. I declare director Donald Farmer to be the master of white trash vampire fantasy metal videos.



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