Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
| 10 July 1987 (USA)
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At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tag along girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....

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Lovesusti

The Worst Film Ever

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Limerculer

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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Glimmerubro

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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Lollivan

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Sam Panico

I'm 2:25 into this movie and I'm already screaming at the TV in glee. A farmhouse, somewhere that feels like Canada, with a mother — who has hair that feels like the 80s — is making eggs and calling everyone to eat. Then, a scream, to which her husband replies with all the intensity of someone answering a telemarketer. He opens the stove to a skull faced demon and screams as his son watches.Cue the credits — it's time for Rock 'n Roll Nightmare!This film stars Jon Mikl Thor, who Wikipedia tells us is "the first Canadian to win both the Mr. Canada and Mr. USA titles. During his bodybuilding career, he has achieved over 40 titles around the world. As a musician, he is the front man for the heavy metal band Thor, billing himself as "The Legendary Rock Warrior."" Thor used to appear in the back pages of 80s metal mags like Hit Parader and Circus, but no one I knew had ever heard any of his albums. You may know him from this insane clip of him dancing and singing that the Found Footage Festival has uncovered:Let me further quote from Wikipedia: "Thor started the concept Thor in 1973. He combined strength feats, props, costumes and showmanship with music: his feats included bending solid steel bars in his teeth and having solid concrete blocks smashed off his chest with a sledgehammer." Seriously, Thor sounds like the greatest man who has ever lived. And his latest band is called Thor and the Ass Boys, so he has that going for him. Seriously, I do believe Thor himself descended from Asgard, down the Rainbow Bridge and used Mjolnir to write his very own Wiki page.Getting back to the movie, the credits sequence ranks among the longest and worst shot credits I've ever seen in my entire life. It's even worse than the credits in fellow Canadians Bob and Doug McKenzie's Mutants of 2051 A.D. It's shot after shot of pre-Go Pro footage of a camera racing along a dark house, as if we are to find some terror in the accouterments and candles and bric a brac.What follows next can only be described as fetishistic shots of a white custom van — complete with DUCKER license plate — as it grooves and grinds and rocks its way down the highways and byways of Canada, complete with the ever beefy Thor at the wheel. I'm writing this at 5 AM and my reality is always a bit skewed, but these shots go through more than one song, which is like a wrestling match lasting three commercial breaks. It just isn't done. If the director's intent was to show us how remote the farmhouse they're traveling to is, he succeeded with three and a half minutes of watching a white van slowly drive. I'm shocked we didn't get a slow motion scene of turn signals going on and off or break lights slowly being depressed. These are the moments in genre films where you wonder: am I watching an auteur or a complete hack…and do I even know the difference any longer?Read more at http://bit.ly/2hRkfPp

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HumanoidOfFlesh

Hair metal band Triton rents out a farm house in rural Ontario to perform their music whilst doing rehearsal.Jon Mikl Thor plays the leader of the band John Triton,blond haired and heavily muscled rocker straight from Manowar.The action of "Rock'n'Roll Nightmare" moves at snail's pace between various scenes of playing crappy glam rock music and sexual sessions.The band is tormented by amateurishly looking evil demons from hell in the form of one-eyed puppets.The band members are picked off one-by-one until only Triton remains and the battle between good and evil begins.Incredibly boring and inept horror flick with phenomenally bad and amusing last 20 minutes.Jon Mikl Thor is totally dedicated to his role despite of abysmal script and wooden acting.Jon shines as The Intercessor,a warrior alpha angel.Pure super-hero battling the devil in the most hilarious fight scene ever put on film.That's why I give this crap 6 warriors out of 10.

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ManBehindTheMask63

This is the greatest movie EVER!!! Actually, it's so bad it's good. "Rock N' Roll Nightmare" gives you puppet monsters, really boring and long sex scenes, some surprisingly good 80's metal ("Energy" is a favorite of mine), and Jon-Mikl Thor in a metal speedo! The plot revolves around a group of musicians who go to a farmhouse to record their new album (because the city has made them soft!). Little do they know, that a decade ago a demon killed an entire family who lived there. Now the demon is back and starts killing off the band members one by one. Jon-Mikl Thor is a likable actor and you can tell he really tried and put a lot of effort into this film. But the film is extremely cheesy and low-budget. Many consider this to be the "worst film of all time". I would totally disagree with that. The film has charm and a certain campiness to it. The twist ending is probably one of the greatest i've seen in such a bad movie. I actually was surprised at how well the plot twist worked. The director also did the metal horror classic "Black Roses". Overall, this is a cult classic that is pretty tame and cheesy, but it's fun and has heart. WE LIVE TO ROCK!!!

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HaemovoreRex

Something of a cult classic this although it's only in the last 15 or so minutes that it becomes clear as to exactly why.Up until this point, the film is a typically by the numbers, unimaginative 80's slasher flick set in an old farm house wherein the protagonists are bumped off one by one by various supernatural beasties (including some hilariously rendered sock puppet like critters!!!)The protagonists in this case are members of a heavy metal band and their girlfriends/wives. Leader of the group is the lead singer John Triton (the incomparable Jon Mikl Thor!) who has arranged for his band mates to stay at the farmhouse for some creative inspiration. Trouble is that by the end of the film everyone except John has been murdered..... or so it seemed at least for in a twist at the end it is revealed that in fact no one was murdered at all(!) and that John's band mates were all externalised figments of his imagination which he has created in order to lure his ultimate nemesis out into the open.And who is John's ultimate nemesis? Why it's none other than Satan himself!!! (Or at least a rubbery, gangling armed puppet who's method of killing is surely to make his victims die of laughter!) But surely even Jon Mikl Thor, as awesome as he is, is no match for the Devil? (even such a poorly rendered representation of him!)....Well in a final shock twist John undergoes a sudden miraculous transformation and reveals himself to be the studded leather codpiece wearing Archangel Triton!!! WHOAH!!!Now the stage is set for what must surely rank as one of the most hilarious cinematic battles ever filmed as our hero gallantly grapples with his virtually immobile adversary (and with his deadly, demonic starfish!!!)After much exaggerated straining and grimacing Triton proves to be the eventual winner (hurray!!!) and Satan is forced to admit defeat (for now at least) wherein he promptly disappears behind a decidedly shoddy looking pyrotechnic display.WOW! I've got to say it, this final battle is absolutely side splitting stuff! For all fellow fans of bad movies, if you haven't yet seen this veritable classic (ahem) then I recommend you high tail it and grab yourself a copy as soon as possible - trust me, you won't regret it!

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