Rocktober Blood

9/18/2022

**_The first film to fuse slasher horror with heavy metal_** A Los Angeles metal band loses its vocalist after he goes mad in the studio. Two years later the new group is successful with a female singer (Donna Scoggins), but the specter of the former vocalist haunts them… literally. Could it be that he’s still alive and their lives are in danger? “Rocktober Blood” (1984) mixes horror and heavy metal in the mold of the great “Trick or Treat” (1986), the entertaining “Shock ’Em Dead” (1991) and the decent "Black Roses" (1988). It’s not quite as good as those, but it’s the first of its kind and definitely superior to Jon Mikl Thor’s “Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare” (1987) (which has to be cut some slack since it only cost a paltry $53,000). The opening 25 minutes and ending 25 minutes are q