![]() From the opening to the end, every scene with the Black Roses works, especially the facade. It’s like GWAR before GWAR, and the way that they win over the townspeople with their soft romantic rock before going full demon as soon as the adults are gone. The creature effects here are great, especially the band’s transformation. ![]() There’s a level of cheese that I have to assume was intentional, as director John Fasano (Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare, The Jitters) has done similar films before, and the fun latched onto me. It’s the perfect amount of fun and fear, excitement and creature effects. Having finally seen it, I can state that this flick is great. Shot in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada for tax deals), Black Roses has largely been forgotten by mainstream horror fans, but I’ve had this one suggested to me for a number of years. The only adult with an inkling that something isn’t right is high school teacher Matthew Moorhouse (John Martin, The Underneath, Night Game), but can he convince the rest of the town in time to save the children? What the town’s adults are not aware of is that the band actually IS evil, corrupting the souls of the Mill Basin’s youth population. ![]() The adults are not fans of the band but are quickly won over, and the show is so popular, the Black Roses play for several more nights. Mill Basin has become the destination for the first concert appearance of the new heavy metal band Black Roses, and the local teenage demographic has turned out. Others, like Black Roses, exist under the surface, passed around the horror community like a hidden secret. Some of them, like Trick or Treat, are really difficult to hunt down. There were a string of rock-n-roll horror films in the 80s to combat all the Satanic Panic of the era, though none of them reached the heights of the horror greats. Tags: Bruno Mattei, Cannon Films, Carla Ferrigno, Claudio Fragasso, Dan Vadis, Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Yehuda Efroni Posted in Fantasy/Swords, Reviews | 1 Comment »ģD adventure Arnold Schwarzenegger Australian cinema blaxploitation Bruce Bruce Willis Cannon Films Christmas Christmas horror Clint Eastwood Danny Trejo Dolph Lundgren DTV DTV sequels George Lucas ghosts hip hop Isaac Florentine Jason Statham JCVD Marvel Comics Mel Gibson Michael Jai White Nicolas Cage ninjas post-apocalypse remakes revenge robots Sam Raimi Samuel L.Cast: John Martin, Ken Swofford, Julie Adams, Carla Ferrigno, Sal Viviano, Carmine Appice I guess he’s not strong or immortal enough to do it on his own, so he has to put together a team which includes some gladiator friends and a badass cynical mercenary lady named Julia (Sybil Danning, who had already been in the space version of SEVEN SAMURAI, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS). They find Han (Lou Ferrigno, also in his first movie, though he’d already done six seasons of The Incredible Hulk), a gladiator who is said to be immortal, but it’s not really explained very well. Find somebody worthy and get him to come protect the village. So she sends Pandora (Carla Ferrigno in her movie debut) and three other women into town with “the mystical Sword of Achilles,” which can only be held by the worthy. Obviously.Īn evil Ming-the-Merciless-Halloween-costume-looking-motherfucker named Nicerote (Dan Vadis from EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE and ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN) who apparently has some kind of magic sorcerer powers threatens his own mother (Barbara Pesante) that he’s gonna come back and attack the village after the harvest. THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS is the sword and sorcery version of the SEVEN SAMURAI story.
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