Welcome back from the second day of
the week. Yeah movies that have the word slaughter in them seems a
trifle lame but again NO SUGGESTIONS WERE MADE. Sorry if that was a
bit on the nose, I got a couple of messages complaining about
yesterday's write-up. I wasn't sure it was because it was
blaxploitation or just my idea to watch it. So again the randomness
of the week I have an 80's horror film of featuring music by Devo, a
gaggle of teens and Alcatraz!?! This is Slaughterhouse Rock a.k.a.
Hell Island a.k.a. Alcatraz Horror and Slaughter House.
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| There is no Alex, only Zuul. |
Our story centers around Alex Gardner
(Nicholas Celozzi of Pretty Smart, Marked for Death, Carnal
Crimes, Hidden Obsession, Campus Hustle, Big Sister 2000 and Deep
Cover) a young college student (that seems to be held
in a high school) who has vivid dreams or nightmares if you
will, experiencing the numerous deaths of victims in Alcatraz. No,
no. Not the inmates of decades past, but a vicious killer who dwells
in Alcatraz slaughtering at will. His nightmares start effecting the
physical plane of existence as his starts sleeping above his covers.
Four feet above his covers! He barks, he drools he claws! His
friends all share the same rental house and have witnessed this first
hand. Thank God he didn't sleep in the nude or wank at night.
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| And there on the handle, was a hook... |
Discussing it with his teacher,
Professor Harding (Donna Denton of Nashville, The New Mike
Hammer, Death Blow: A Cry for Justice, Glory Years, Slaughterhouse
Rock, Gor II and Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All) professor of
the occult and supernatural, suggests to head to Alcatraz to face his
demons if you will. His brother Richard (Tom Reilly of Paper
Dolls, ChiPs, Young Warriors, Kiss and Be Killed, Sworn to Vengeance,
Mirror Images II, Valleys of the Dolls and Ice Cream Man) and
gang of Marty (Ty Miller of The Young Riders, The X-Files,
Without a Trace and U.S. Seals), Krista (Hope Marie
Carlton of Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Savage, Bloodmatch, A Nightmare on
Elm Street: The Dream Master, Round Numbers and Noctropolis),
Jan (Tammy Hyler of Cloak & Dagger, Pretty Smart,
Judgement, A Time to Revenge, Back in the Day, Heaven Bound and I'm
Not Ashamed) and Jack (Steven Brian Smith of
Moonlighting and Slaughterhouse Rock) all decide to help Alex
confront this problem head on and boat out to Alcatraz... cause you
do that.
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| Pumpkinhead: Man on the Town. |
A friendly and foxy ghost Sammy (Toni
Basil of Myra Breckinridge, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Movie,
Greaser's Palace, Mother, Jugs & Speed, Angel III: The Final
Chapter, Rockula and Eating) formerly a pop rock star of the
band Bodybag, tries to give Alex advice to stop this evil residing in
Alcatraz and save his friends, maybe bring herself some peace as
well.
No sooner does the Scooby gang make
their way to land, Richard gets possessed by a cannibalistic demon
trying to attack his buddies and brother alike. Can anything be
done to save Richard? Will Alex continue to be haunted??
The use of Alcatraz makes sense as the
general theme giving us dark dreams, demonic possession, astral
projection and ghosts roaming about. Ladies be warned there is an
attempted rape. Yeah, that was clearly needed he said with great
gobs of sarcasm. This film loaded with some decent practical
effects, good lighting, a fair degree of fog machines going on full
tilt, the atmosphere is creepy but the lack of enough characters cuts
down on the potential for eerie effects. This film has a solid,
fast pace giving a flick with horror elements rather than the typical
80s exposition, drawn out slasher film.
Director Dimitri Logothetis (Pretty
Smart, The Closer, Body Shot, Hungry for You, Cheyenne, Dark Realm,
The Lost Angel and Wings of the Dragon) had a good crew, a
decent cast and good direction overall. Not too shabby.
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| Not even my 80s hair to stop all this weirdness. |
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