Heavy Metal Horror

10/16/2025

**_Bleak pseudo-documentary about a hooker and a thrash band_** Don’t expect anything like "Trick or Treat,” “Black Roses,” “Rocktober Blood” or "Shock 'Em Dead.” Made in 2013, this is basically a meshing of “Curse of the Blair Witch” (the fake documentary that set-up “The Blair Witch Project”) and “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.” If you favor those, you’ll probably appreciate this. Once adjusting to the unique presentation, I found myself getting to know Julia and her sad, self-inflicted plight (played by Daphnee Hanrahan as the interviewee and Keltie Squires in the ‘reenactments’). You also get to know the band and its five members, who constantly smoke, drink and do drugs in one form or another. Their ages are stated at the end and it’s believable how they range from the early 20