Call me crazy, but I've got good memories associated with horror films, one of which is 1986's "Trick or Treat" about a loser kid who idolizes a rock star, Sammi Curr, who comes back from the dead to haunt his hometown's high school that rejected him. Featuring a kick ass soundtrack by
Fastway and cameos by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, this film has to come out of obscurity to haunt a new generation. When this film came out, I was still living in Springfield, Missouri as a mixed up teen myself rebelling against a preppie middle class Christian society determined to rein me in. Heavy Metal was the kind of music that scared the shit out of the people I went to school with. Ozzy, Gene, and even Alice Cooper were the boogeymen of the music world. People associated metal with Satanism, black magic, and pornography. Hell, it was considered worse than porno, it was the soundtrack of a horror film. The music was enough to influence my mother to send me into Christian counseling and eventually get kidnapped by a cult deprogramming group. That experience taught me to lie and has instilled in me a love for the dark side. In 1986 it's no surprise that eventually a horror film centered around an undead rock star. I can't think of anything that was more powerful than Heavy Metal back in the mid '80s. Metal still holds a power over me even today.
If I had the power and influence, I'd revive this film for today's audiences. Can you not think of anyone more scarier than a 1980's metal icon come back from the dead? Take a peek at the first chapters of the film I found available on YouTube:
After reviewing this film, it puts me in a mood to list all my favorite metal inspired films...
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