MartinHafer Ignore my numerical vote--this is a bad movie but only in the best possible way!! I am a bad movie fan, but not all bad films. Some bad films are dreadfully boring and I hate them (such as "The Conqueror" or "Cracking Up"). However, a small group of film are bad but hilariously bad--so bad, so silly, so unbelievably stupid that you can't help but like them. I love films like "The Apple" and "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare" because they don't take themselves seriously--and they revel in their badness! Now this isn't to say the film is all bad--the music, for 80s hair band tunes, is great stuff and made a wonderful soundtrack to an apocalyptically bad film.This film is basically like taking "Halloween" or "Friday the 13th" and injecting them with great tunes--along with taking about about 98% of their budget! It's hard to imagine, but the film was made in only seven days and cost a paltry $53,000 to produce. This budget, adjusted to inflation, makes it even cheaper to make than Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space"! The film begins with the slaughter of some family. Then, many years later, a rock band goes on a retreat in the middle of no where (Canada) to work on their music and cut their next album. However, the place is infested with demonic hand puppets who wipe out the cast one by one until their is a final climactic battle between a large-breasted guy and a giant Satan puppet that throws evil starfish at him! You really have to see it to believe how bad it is--but also how incredibly funny it is.By all means watch the film--it's horrible and funny. But be prepared--like so many slasher films of the day, there is LOTS of nudity. But, considering that the movie is all about Satan and his hand puppets butchering rock stars, you wouldn't think to show this to kids or your mother! So amazingly bad AND cool at the same time, you just have to see it. And, if you can't stand the film (because it is dumb), just listen to the songs--they really are awfully good.

HumanoidOfFlesh Hair metal band Triton rents out a farm house in rural Ontario to perform their music whilst doing rehearsal.Jon Mikl Thor plays the leader of the band John Triton,blond haired and heavily muscled rocker straight from Manowar.The action of "Rock'n'Roll Nightmare" moves at snail's pace between various scenes of playing crappy glam rock music and sexual sessions.The band is tormented by amateurishly looking evil demons from hell in the form of one-eyed puppets.The band members are picked off one-by-one until only Triton remains and the battle between good and evil begins.Incredibly boring and inept horror flick with phenomenally bad and amusing last 20 minutes.Jon Mikl Thor is totally dedicated to his role despite of abysmal script and wooden acting.Jon shines as The Intercessor,a warrior alpha angel.Pure super-hero battling the devil in the most hilarious fight scene ever put on film.That's why I give this crap 6 warriors out of 10.

movieman_kev There are movies that exist out there that are so awful, so bad, that they're good "Filthy McNasty", "Class of Nuke em High" the first Troll film, and on and on. This putrid little horror cheapie that is Rock N Roll Nightmare is definitely NOT on of those. This Jon Mikl Thor starring piece of crap is so bad that I revs past bad, soars past 'so bad, it's good' and takes a firm nosedive into 'so bad that it's freaking terrible' territory. No redeeming value whatsoever. My 2 year old niece can do better than this celluloid waste. I kept hearing about how the last 10 minutes made sitting through the rest of the film worthwhile. Well no and no. Thor tells a foam latex devil puppet that he had tricked him, gets pelted with clay starfish, and that's pretty much it. Yeah that was so worth sitting through boring minutes of nothing but a car driving down the road, so worth watching people wash dishes, and endless scenes of filler and padding. I love heavy metal, i love low-budget horror flicks, so one would think i'd love a combination of the two...right?? WRONG. Do yourself a favor, bub, go rent "Trick or Treat", "Rocktober Blood" or pretty much any metal/horror hybrid and leave this one in the dust bin where it belongs. Followed by a sequel!!!! That I hear is even worse (is that even possible) DVD Extras: Commentary by Director John Fasano and actor Jon-Mike Thor (the latter also provides a video intro & afterwards); 15 minute interview with Thor; 13 minute behind the scenes make-up featurette; 21 minutes of rare footage from the set; and two music videos Eye Candy: Both Jillian Peri and Teresa Simpson get topless My Grade: F

HaemovoreRex Something of a cult classic this although it's only in the last 15 or so minutes that it becomes clear as to exactly why.Up until this point, the film is a typically by the numbers, unimaginative 80's slasher flick set in an old farm house wherein the protagonists are bumped off one by one by various supernatural beasties (including some hilariously rendered sock puppet like critters!!!)The protagonists in this case are members of a heavy metal band and their girlfriends/wives. Leader of the group is the lead singer John Triton (the incomparable Jon Mikl Thor!) who has arranged for his band mates to stay at the farmhouse for some creative inspiration. Trouble is that by the end of the film everyone except John has been murdered..... or so it seemed at least for in a twist at the end it is revealed that in fact no one was murdered at all(!) and that John's band mates were all externalised figments of his imagination which he has created in order to lure his ultimate nemesis out into the open.And who is John's ultimate nemesis? Why it's none other than Satan himself!!! (Or at least a rubbery, gangling armed puppet who's method of killing is surely to make his victims die of laughter!) But surely even Jon Mikl Thor, as awesome as he is, is no match for the Devil? (even such a poorly rendered representation of him!)....Well in a final shock twist John undergoes a sudden miraculous transformation and reveals himself to be the studded leather codpiece wearing Archangel Triton!!! WHOAH!!!Now the stage is set for what must surely rank as one of the most hilarious cinematic battles ever filmed as our hero gallantly grapples with his virtually immobile adversary (and with his deadly, demonic starfish!!!)After much exaggerated straining and grimacing Triton proves to be the eventual winner (hurray!!!) and Satan is forced to admit defeat (for now at least) wherein he promptly disappears behind a decidedly shoddy looking pyrotechnic display.WOW! I've got to say it, this final battle is absolutely side splitting stuff! For all fellow fans of bad movies, if you haven't yet seen this veritable classic (ahem) then I recommend you high tail it and grab yourself a copy as soon as possible - trust me, you won't regret it!