Black Roses

The hard-rock group Black Roses arrive in a small town to do a live concert performance. Turns out the band are actually evil demons in disguise who cause the local teens to do all kinds of horrible stuff thanks to their wicked music. Director John Fasano, who previously blessed us with the gloriously ridiculous "Rock'n'Roll Nightmare," once again delivers the deliciously cheesy vintage 80's over-the-top heavy metal horror goods: We've got a delightfully bonkers story, several gnarly demon monsters, a few choice scenes with teenagers killing their own parents, a seriously groovy head-banging soundtrack, an exciting fiery climax, and even a little tasty gratuitous female nudity for trashy good measure. John Martin as a concerned English teacher makes for a likeable protagonist while ever-reliable old pros Ken Swofford as the amiable mayor and Julie Adams as an uptight bluenose biddy lend sturdy support. Vincent Pastore of "The Sopranos" fame pops up in a small role as a disapproving dad who gets offed by a rubbery puppet beast. A total kitschy hoot and a half.

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The worst thing about this movie is it seems no one has ever HEARD of it!! I had seen it dozens of times as a younger person. often at Halloween parties and had a copy taped off TV, (c'mon we've all done that). I was very lucky though, that when i had some extra floating around i was able to purchase a DVD copy from Turner Classic movies, (still trying to get my grubby paws on a copy of "Popcorn") I still, to this day love this movie, it's freaky without being too scary, and fun! I decided to do a swap with my horror-loving niece and she totally loves this movie. We had a Halloween-en party last year where we had 29 other people see it for the first time and everyone enjoyed it. it is truly worth watching, and if you liked it, I suggest "Trick or Treat" with Tony Fields or "976-EVIL" with Stephan Geoffreys.

This is a perfect example of a bad rated movie because people review without the vote. How the bleep will this get the right rating if it is not even voted. So sick of the owner and developers not making it mandatory to vote on reviews. This movie and a lot of other movies will never get the right ratings because of this. This is an awesome metal and horror mix movie like Trick or Treat but this one gets rated lower because of the darn no mandatory votes. If those reviews had votes that don't this would most like have higher rating. Oh well, this site does not care about that. They rather keep it this way while all ratings are flawed. That is why I come to this site to read about the movie and roll my eyes when reading reviews that have no voting. This site has been up for years and they never ever bothered to fix it. My one 10 star vote is not going to help it much.

It seems to me that Z-grade features like Black Roses would be a lot of fun to make. Signing up for this project (as a cast member) you would get to do one of the following: wear scary make-up and play monster, rock out or show off body parts. And because the script is everything but demanding, and there are no studio heads making deadlines for the project, There is never much pressure involved. As enjoyable as the filmaking experience may have been, It is a bore to watch. It is hard to get away with being deliberately cheesy. A tiny handful of films with names that include Killer Klowns from Outer Space, work exceptionally well as a satirical throwback the days of Ed Wood. Black Roses could just as easily be looked at as a high campy throwback of a movie, but unlike Killer Klowns, this one is likely to draw your attention away from the screen and towards the exit sign. Only a moron could ask for professionalism in something like this. Even if you set your expectations low, Black roses is still disappointing. Is it too much to ask for a little humour in what is supposed to be part comedy I think. Black Roses is a case of a movie that sells a funny idea. It reads well, but the end product is highly insufficient. I may have laughed in two or three places (but that's it). the majority of laughter in Black Roses is more likely to be unintentional, like the shakiness of the picture in all the wide shots. There must have been a loose bolt on the camera crane. I've seen video productions that draw less attention to themselves. Seriously who was operating the camera? There is a reason why Z-Grade movies have earned such a name. I've seen a few which are entertaining, but Black Roses is not among them.

The small town of Mill Basin is about to become the first place that the band Black Roses will ever play a show. Up until now, they've only been a studio band. And parents are concerned because these guys have taken over the hearts and souls of the town's kids. But do you blame the kids? Mill Basin reminds me of where I grew up — there's nothing to do but have sex and do recreational drugs. And if you have bad self-esteem issues, you're gonna just stay in your room reading comic books, playing guitar, drawing pictures of Leatherface and staring at your Traci Lords poster while listening to Among the Living on repeat. Oh wait — I was wallowing in the past. The kids come back at their parents with knives, just like Charley claimed they would, like Tony running over his dad (Vincent Pastore of The Sopranos) with a car, another kid shoots his dad in the face and one gets her best friend to hump her father to death (one of these deaths is not like the other). Even virginal Julie goes astray, killing her lecherous stepfather and Moorhouse's ex-girlfriend before transforming into a creature that I can only describe as a fetal pig that makes cat noises. Read more at bit.ly/2yA7j8z

This probably won't mean anything to people from America, but the opening sequences in "Black Roses", which were the best part of the entire film by far, seriously reminded me of the winning act in the Eurovision contest in 2006. They were a Finnish band named Lordi and dressed up like OTT demonic monsters on stage. It was quite a shock they won the conventional and borderline puritan musical concert, but it was a funny sight. Same goes for the intro of "Black Roses", in fact, because the demonic make-up effects are delightful, but the music sounds more like glamor-rock instead of heavy metal. During the 1980s, several directors had the bad idea to mix horror movies with metal music. Both were popular separately, so together they must be even more successful, right? Wrong. I love horror and I love heavy metal, but the string of combo-flicks that came out in the 80s is overall disastrous. Although I haven't seen "Trick or Treat" yet, "Black Roses" must be the indisputably masterpiece of the sub-genre! At least it's vastly superior over titles like "Terror on Tour", "Rocktober Blood" "Hard Rock Zombies" and "Rock & Roll Nightmare". Metal band The Black Roses, with their popular front man Damian, announces that they'll kick off their American tour with a series of shows in the sleepy town of Mill Basin. It's delightful news for the local youth, but the parents and elderly townsfolk are heavily against the Roses' type of "satanic" music and life-style. They don't realize how right they are, actually, since Damian and his band are evil minions of Satan that gradually gain control over their fans' minds and bodies during the concerts. Several aspects make "Black Roses" a lot more enjoyable than the aforementioned titles, for instance a better soundtrack ("Soldiers of the Night", "Paradise" and "Dance on Fire" are good songs) and a handful of awesome murder sequences. There's a nasty scene in which a guy is beaten to death with an ashtray and a very sexy high-school sweetheart even strip-pokers her friend's dad to death! The film also remains a pure 80s cheese-galore, with lovely images of spectators turning into skeletons during the concerts and Vincent Pastore (in an early role) getting sucked into a speaker. That'll teach him to make fun of boys wearing earrings!

So there is a renegade high schooler named Johnny. He is 30 years old, with a mullet and a jean jacket. He hates his teachers and loves metal music. His favorite metal band has a lead singer who turns into a monster while performing cursed songs. There's some great-yet-bad metal music, especially the tune at the beginning. The score is very forgettable 80s synth noodling, unfortunately. It's an alright movie to look at, the acting is passable if you grade on a curve, and the monster effects are pretty decent all considered. This movie kinda has it all if you're into bad 80's monster movies: *, a messy script, rockin' tunes, cheesy dialog, and an awful main character you love to make fun of. Big Pussy from the Sopranos makes his acting debut, and it's freakin' hilarious. Lots of mentions of the "satanic panic" of the 80s where the media cast overprotective mothers and pitted them against heavy metal and rap music that had explicit lyrics. The theme of the movie seems to stem from that whole incident This one was lots of fun to watch, with a great soundtrack and story-line, plus the right amount of cheese, it makes 90min fly by. 3.5 / 5

"Black Roses" is a forgettable, low-budget thriller, which looks inevitably dated today, since its premise links - in a superficial way - rock music with evil demons who want to control the minds of teenagers. The effects are weird-looking and amusingly cheap,although there is more nudity than gore. The film's major problem is its messy storytelling, which has no center to help us get involved. >

A rock n' roll band from hell turns a small town inside out when the music possesses the kids of the town folk and turns them into lethal killers. The tape box praises the special effects, but whoever wrote that description must have been watching another film, because the special effects are no better then the amatuer level production values and acting.