 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Black Roses • Year: 1988 • Country: USA/Canada • Director: John Fasano • Main cast: John Martin, Ken Swofford, Sal Viviano • Runtime: 90 minutes • Production company: Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment • TRAILER |
A heavy metal band goes to a small conservative american town to play for a bunch of teenagers flirting with vandalism and craving for riot. A group of old women wanting to be saved by Jesus complaining about the lyrics of the band, calling them satanic and crying for the kids’ souls salvation. Yes, a typical scenario for a 80s monster movie.
Black Roses are a hair metal band that go to a little american working class town called Mill Basin. And what could be simple teenage fan madness for their chest-haired idols turns into a world of craziness. Suddenly, weird and unexplainable deaths happen in the town as some of the kids start to behave in a strage way. The movie’s plot is simple and effective for the pure it is: teenagers and rocknroll always equals riot, no matter what time or genre the movie is set. Oh, did a mention the rock band are a bunch of demons dressed as humans? Yeah, I know, that makes it even more 80s horror, doesn’t it?
This is a movie that although it’s from the end of the 80s, it looks very old, looks almost late 70s. At some points it gets boring, and can’t compete with other slasher movies from the same decade, with or without the supernatural facts. The story is simple and many things remain without explanation, but the acting and direction, as well as some murder scenes, are not bad at all. In my opinion, many events happen for no reason, and the movie should had gone deeper into some of the characters’ “possessed” actions. There are some random out of nowhere erotic moments with naked female bodies, but at least they manage to give some dynamism to the film.
And if you like this movie, and you are into fake cardboard monsters and glam rock heavy metal, maybe you could also enjoy the director John Fasano’s previous film, Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare (1987).
A movie only for devoted fans, or for you if you want to have a pop corn old movies session.
My Rating: 4/10
URL IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094752
