Trick or Treat

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Summary: Cheesy Fun!
Review: Ok, let me first say that if you have bought or are planning on buying this DVD because Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne are given top billing on the cover, you will be sorely dissappointed. Combined, the two get a total of about 5 minutes of screen time. This movie is about a nerdy metalhead named Eddie (played by Skippy from Family Ties) who worships an over-the-top metal stereotype named Sammi Curr. Sammi attended the same high school as Eddie does, only about 20 years prior and shortly after the school refuses to allow Sammi to stage a concert there, he dies in a hotel fire. Eddie is crushed, so as a way to cheer Eddie up, a local DJ (played by Simmons) gives Eddie a test pressing of Sammi's unreleased final album, which the DJ was supposed to play at midnight on Halloween, per Sammi's request. Eddie soon discovers, though, that Sammi's spirit is communicating through backwards messages on the record. The spirit offers to help Eddie get revenge on his tormentors at school, including a popular jock (played by the gay guy from Melrose Place) who really has it out for Eddie, and a popular girl who has inexplicably taken a liking to Eddie but whom Eddie believes was trying to make a fool of him. Eddie agrees to go along with the spirit until he realizes that Sammi doesn't want to just pull pranks on these characters but intends something deadlier for the whole school.

Anyway, I could go on and on about this Shakespearian-like story, but I think you get the drift. There is not one scare in this movie, but its pretty funny, although it starts to drag at the end. Skippy does a good job as Eddie, playing him as a dorky outcast who loves metal rather than a brooding loner, which could have easily been done but would have been the wrong way to go. As stated earlier, the guy who plays Sammi Curr is pretty over-the-top, but whatever, it hilarious. I don't know about that Fastway soundtrack, though. Pretty cheesy, if you ask me. I can't believe that Fast Eddie left Motorhead to do that junk. I should mention that Ozzy appears as a Preacher out to censor heavy metal.

This movie is mega-low budget. (...) As for my favorite moment, watch for a cameo by the boom microphone when Eddie's mom gets picked up by her boyfriend for their halloween date. Who says you need to do a retake?

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Summary: the best movie in metal history
Review: i was still very young when this movie was made, but i still remember how things were in the 80's and i wish more everyday that things were still like that. its like a flashback everytime i watch this movie. marc price done a great job playing the metalhead outcast which i can really relate to. its one of the only movies that makes you almost feel like your in that time period 20 years later. the 2nd half is a little cheesy, but its well worth seeing. the movie and soundtrack will always be one of my all time favs. i highly suggest it to the next generation of kids who want to see what the 80's were like. this is it. this is how it was!

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Summary: Pure unspoiled Heavy Metal at its Best!!!
Review: Once in everyone's lifetime there comes and album that defines not only the music genre at the time, but also the mood and angst felt by every high school metal head. This album was it for me, it was so pure in its sound and yet more powerful than anything I have heard even now, some 17 years later. This was an album for guitar players, wanna-be guitar players, and anyone who ever wanted to play guitar and impress a girl. The pure raw talent of David King, co-mingled with the dead-on guitar rhythms and leads of "Fast" Eddie Clarke, made this album a must have for me. I have personally worn out two copies of this album, and replaced it numerous times when it was stolen from me. If you can find this album, dim the lights, light a candle and enjoy the high and low mood swings of this album, you wont be disappointed.

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Summary: Great soundtrack to a great 80's classic flick!
Review: I noticed that these reviews are supposed to be for the cd but tend to be for the movie. Oh well I thought I'd be different and review the cd instead. So we have a classic soundtrack to a classic 80's flick. I wont go into the movie details. I am just glad they didnt ruin the soundtrack like they did in the movie by putting the Whodini rap crap song whatever the heck that was. I know it's Whodini cause I read the end credits. Of course the best songs being the short but to the point Tear Down The Walls and Heft. I dont know what a heft is but it is a cool trippy song. After Midnight rocks as well the rest I just cant give enough kudos to the cd. Get it with the dvd and you wont be dissapointed. "It's time to get tough the boy's had enough" Cliche' lyrics but to the point.

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Summary: "Trick or Treat" a timely classic
Review: How can I express how much I love this film? The combined elements of heavy metal and beyond-the-grave vengeance are the greatest in the history of 80's films. I recall back in 1986 sitting in the theatre watching this film and experiencing a euphoric sense of pride when the mother in the film digs through Ragman's (Marc Price) record collection. I owned every one she pulled out! Not to mention the character of Ragman made me feel less alone, and I'm sure many others felt the same. When Sammy Curr says, "WE . . . WILL BRING YOU DOWN!!" I still say, "Hell, yeah!" This film is glorious fun from beginning to end. It's more entertaining than any film of its kind, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the movies' representation of the McCarty-esque tactics of the PMRC, and the moralistic intent of the religious right (a hilarious cameo by Ozzy Osbourne), which gets plenty of lip service in the flick. The soudtrack by Fastway is still a classic. "Stand up and be counted" and buy this film! It will rock you senseless!