Heavy Metal/Hard Rock in b movies

[Doc Daneeka]

SHOCKER! No more Mr. Nice Guy!

[Evan]

And you cant forget the classic "I Was a Teenage Zombie"!

[boomstyck79]

Rock n Roll High School is a classic but beware the sequel, Rock n Roll High School Forever, starring Corey Feldman.

Strangeland with Twisted Sister's Dee Snider

I have seen Rocktober Blood. So terrible. All the lighting for the film is handled by one 40 watt bulb. Lots of really bad music too, but that unfortunately gets stuck in your head. The movie was written by, directed by, produced by and starred a bunch of relatives of the guy who financed the film, all $500.

[RapscallionJones]

Are you guys serious?  We're on the second page and not one person has mentioned Decline of Western Civilization Part 2?

The first Decline is a documentary about the LA Punk scene in the early 80's and it's quite good, the sequel, also quite good is all about the Sunset Strip metal scene around 1987/88.  It features:

Ozzy making breakfast
Chris Holmes of WASP absolutely wasted in his pool while his mother looks on
Gene Simmons in a lingerie store, Paul Stanely surrounded by half undressed girls
Megadeth recording So Far, So Good, So What
London (the band that spawned Nikki Sixx) displaying a shocking ignorance of global politics
Pre Headbanger's Ball Riki Rachtman explains how girls gain entry to his nightclub

For the most part, the bands you've heard of aren't particularly interesting and in some instances, they're flat out excessive and sleazy, but the real stars of the show are the bands that never made it for one reason or another.  Chief among them in Odin, who hope to be bigger than the doors and are quite assured that they will be.  London plays their song, Russian Winter, after many failed attempts to burn a Russian flag. It's a riot.

I really wish they'd put this movie on DVD.  I haven't even seen it on the bootleg circuit.  VH1 played it earlier this year which was the first time I'd seen it since the 80's.

There's a further sequel, but I've never seen it and I don't think it was ever release.  It has something to do with Bay Area peace punks.

[IzzyDedjet]

Right on Anubis! "The Dungeonmaster" IS the (only) film featuring WASP.

Hate to bust your bubble there partner, but unless the band has a starring role in the film, they gave Ghoulies 2 the end title track called Scream Until You Like It

[Shadow]

Are you guys serious?  We're on the second page and not one person has mentioned Decline of Western Civilization Part 2?

I still have the soundtrack to that movie! I always felt sorry for the band, London. They had so many members come and go, only to find mega-success with other bands, yet they never went anywhere.

[GoHawks]

Slightly off-topic, but the movie Carnivore (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251005/) has a 'soundtrack' that features only one song from the movie.  All of the other songs on the soundtrack are well known R'n'R songs by established artists, but with a little asterisk next to them.  Below the list of titles it says something like: "* Song does not appear in this film".

The one song that does appear in the movie is by a local (to me) independent band named Slave Driver, whose guitar player/lead singer (Jeff Swan) played the 'Marc' character in the movie.  I actually know Jeff as a friend of a friend, and I saw this movie back in the 1990s because he had a VHS 'preproduction' copy.  The movie is now available on DVD, but don't believe the packaging:  there are NO extras, the movie is full-frame and the sound is (still) terrible.  And the movie sucks (sorry, Jeff!).

P.S.  For anyone in the Chicago area, Jeff also plays guitar in an AC/DC tribute band named Dirty Deeds.  They totally rock. 

[Andrew]

And the movie sucks (sorry, Jeff!).

"Carnivore" is awful.  Really bad.  I mean, definitely a skull rating.  You start wanting to rip your eyes out, just to deny the movie the satisfaction of doing it for you.

[Megalons Revenge]

Detroit Rock City is a great one. not so much b movie though. Enuff Z'uff has done the soundtrack for multiple b movie. I think they were in Frog-g-g and some Full Moon movies.

[DistantJ]

Pretty much any Dario Argento movie will have a metal soundtrack.

Oh and DEMONS :D

[RapscallionJones]

Pretty much any Dario Argento movie will have a metal soundtrack.

Oh and DEMONS :D

Wha???  Goblin do the soundtracks to his best known movies.  They're prog all the way.

[DistantJ]

Yup but between the Goblin score he includes metal songs. Plus a lot of the Goblin stuff sounds pretty hard rock really.

Oh please for god's sake don't let this thread turn into a music sub-sub-sub-genre discussion...

[BoyScoutKevin]

If you're interested in animated fare, we of course can't forget the midnight movie classic Heavy Metal, based on the underground comic magazine of the same name and featuring the voice of John Candy! Harry Canyon needs a live-action movie... starring Bruce Campbell. 

And its sequel, "Heavy Metal 2000." Though, it's mostly a sequel in name only.

[Psycho Circus]

Right on Anubis! "The Dungeonmaster" IS the (only) film featuring WASP.

Hate to bust your bubble there partner, but unless the band has a starring role in the film, they gave Ghoulies 2 the end title track called Scream Until You Like It

It's only Chris Holmes that featured in DOTWCP2:The Metal Years, Blackie Lawless is an extra in "Don't Stop The Muic" (1980) and in "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984) W.A.S.P. appeared in the aforemention "Dungeonmaster" and "Terrorvision", whilst the bands music is featured in "Ghoulies 2", "Dudes" and "Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child"

[Psycho Circus]

I think "Trick Or Treat" was one of the best, it had cameos from Gene Simmons & Ozzy Osbourne if anyone remembers and the music of Fastway. Fastway did the whole soundtrack which was released as one of their albums in '86. It's excellent!


I also like "Black Roses" which was a sorta zombie/metalhead mash-up, it had music from Lizzy Borden, King Kobra and Masi.