Hard Rock Zombies

1984
R
1h 38m

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A freshly-out-of-the-grave band of Hard Rock Zombies is thirsting to take their sweet revenge, as they give the performance of a lifetime.A freshly-out-of-the-grave band of Hard Rock Zombies is thirsting to take their sweet revenge, as they give the performance of a lifetime.A freshly-out-of-the-grave band of Hard Rock Zombies is thirsting to take their sweet revenge, as they give the performance of a lifetime.

Director
- Krishna Shah
Writers
- Krishna Shah
- David Allen Ball
Stars

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4.5/10

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Director
- Krishna Shah
Writers
- Krishna Shah
- David Allen Ball
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Jessie
(as E.J. Curcio)

Geno Andrews

Tommy

Sam Mann

Chuck

Mick McMains

Robby
(as Mick Manz)

Lisa Toothman

Elsa

Jennifer Coe

Cassie

Ted Wells

Jack Bliesener

Hitler

Richard Vidan

Sheriff

Phil Fondacaro

Mickey
(as H.G. Golas)

Crystal Shaw Martell

Mrs. Buff
(as Crystal Shaw)

Vincent Albert DiStefano

Olaf
(as Vincent De Stefano)

Gary Friedkin

Buckey

Christopher Perkins

Christian

Michael David Simms

Don Matson

Nadia

Susan Prevatte

Wolf Lady

Emanuel Shipow

Grandfather
(as Emmanuel Shipov)

Director
- Krishna Shah
Writers
- Krishna Shah
- David Allen Ball
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Originally, this was only meant to be about 20 minutes long and solely used as the feature movie in American Drive-in (1985). At some point during production, the decision was made to invest a little bit more money and come out with two full length feature films instead of just one.

Goofs
Soon after the end credits start rolling, director Krishna Shah's first name is misspelled as 'Written By Kirshna Shah.'

Quotes
Chuck: You guys ready for the show? The loud show? Loud music show? ROCK AND ROLL?

Crazy credits
This film is dedicated to Ramona Evelyn Andrus "Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns..." -- William Wordsworth

Alternate versions
Some gory shots were removed from the theatrical release to avoid an "X" rating. The unrated Vestron VHS restores the cut gore.

Connections
Featured in American Drive-in (1985)

Soundtracks
Morte Ascendere
Written by Paul Sabu

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Entertaining (though minor) cult film

My review was written in December 1987 after watching the feature on Vestron video cassette.

"Hard Rock Zombies", a pickup briefly released by Cannon in 1985, is a not-bad cult item combining rock music and horror spoofing. Picture was lensed in California in 1983 in tandem with "American Drive-In", with latter film economically using the "Zombies" feature as the film-within-the-film playing at the drive-in.

E. J Curcio plays the lead singer of a heavy metal band on tour, which gets mixed up with a Hiler cult after picking up a pretty blonde hitchhiker (Lisa Toothman a/k/a Donna Boise). The band is murdered, but fortunately Curcio was toying with some satanic lyrics taken from a book on raising the dead and, sure enough, the music is used to reanimate them as zombies.

Plot involves some silly run-ins with local types intent on banning rock music from their municipality, but catchy music and some effective satire, especially the zombies' rhythmic strutting, are the film's highlights. Horror buffs will note an inconsistency in pic's solutions to dealing with the problem of annihilating the undead and a silly sequence of good guys obtaining large blow-ups of celebrity posters (Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, etc.) to scare the zombies with is thoroughly unconvincing.

Pic would make an interesting college campus booking with "American Drive-In".