WASTELANDS - An Australian
B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show exploring the vast
undiscovered cultural wastelands as a creative pursuit. Hosted by long time
partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk
oddities, trashy treasures, street levelness, life, culture and stuff.
In this episode Adam and Mark rip
through their next Metalsploitation instalment -the video nasty Hard Rock
Zombies. This distasteful horror comedy rock musical entry to the sub-genre
features hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler
and that’s all in the first 10 minutes.
In the 80’s, rock music and
horror movies went together like acid washed jeans and feathered hair. The
trouble is, even though many horror movies had awesome rock soundtracks, the
movies that specifically featured rock musician characters as heroes or
villains varied wildly in quality. Although the rock horror movie has mostly
gone the way of the 80’s, I’m not sure any other type of music will ever have
such a successful love affair with horror.
A nameless hard rock band who for
some reason have the key broadest from Kraftwerk whose music can raise the
dead, travel to that town out of footloose for an auditions with a big record
executive, unfortunately Hitler now lives there and they fall prey to his
entourage of mutant dwarfs, a flick knife wielding werewolf, a maniac with a
wiper sniper and blonde sexy psychopath. They are then resurrected by a 14 year
old groupie by who plays one of their songs at their graves the lyrics of which
were taken from the Necronomicon and they take undead revenge on their
killers
That takes us to the half way
point after which it starts to get weird. Actually it doesn’t get any weirder,
that would be impossible. It just becomes less coherent.
The first part is mental but at
least it makes sense in the context of the movie- the band arrives in town,
gets murdered, is resurrected and takes revenge. That’s a complete story –
problem is there is still 45 minutes to go.
So the bad guys now get back up
again as undead ghouls and attack the town. While the zombie band go through
with their audition. It’s important that the audition is there it kinda ties
things up but the rest is hilariously pointless and it really leads to some
very very strange places.
Highlights / Lowlights
The film starts off promisingly,
quickly scoring points for gratuitous use of both nudity and dwarfs,
But rapidly becomes a
jaw-dropping bad mish-mash of musical interludes and inept gore (courtesy of FX
man John Carl Buechler),
Interspersed with moments of
complete insanity: an old man (later to be revealed as Hitler) his wife; the
old lady turns into a werewolf;
The hitch-hiker dances by herself
for no reason in the desert;
One dwarf eats himself;
The band survives an
electrocution while practising; and one guy momentarily avoids being eaten by
pretending to be a zombie (beating Shaun of the Dead to the joke by a couple of
decades).
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