THE UNHOLY ROLLERS (1972)

Claudia Jennings, who you might remember from 'GATOR BAIT or THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE, is sick and tired of her lame job at the cat food factory so she tries out for a local roller derby team, makes the team and somehow parlays that into "making lots of money".  Of course, fame has it's drawbacks (especially when you are slightly insane) and soon Claudia goes off the deep end.

I didn't know what to expect from UNHOLY ROLLERS, but with the words "unholy" and "rollers" in the title I was hoping for some sort of Satanic rollerskating action...that didn't happen, but it would have been cool!  Has there ever been a movie about a successful roller derby team that owes it's prosperity to Satan?  If not, there should be.  Anyway, UNHOLY ROLLERS is your standard Roger Corman-produced 70's movie: low budget, quick pace, female nudity, light on story, heavy on cheap thrills, mediocre acting.  That's really about it.  I honestly just kinda sat there watching the whole thing in a trance.  The story is unimportant and Claudia's character goes through life with zero concern for the consequences of her actions.  Example: after being attacked by some lesbians who strip off her clothes on a bar room pool table, she leaves with a dude on a motorcycle.  She finds a gun in his bag and immediately starts firing it off at random signs and people on the street.  This is just a normal event in her life!

Overall, it's a mildly entertaining film, but nothing worth going out of your way to see. On the positive side, there was a quick glimpse of Princess (MUDHONEY) Livingston in a crowd scene and a brief appearance by Kathleen Freeman as Claudia's mom.  Also a young Martin Scorsese was the Supervising Editor.  How strange is that?

Holy fook...it's Princess Livingston from MUDHONEY!

Kathleen Freeman

TRICK OR TREAT (1986)

Eddie Weinbauer is a rocker goddamn it! Screw all those jocks and preppies at his high school, they just don't understand man! His favorite rock musician is the outspoken Sammi Curr. So when Sammi dies in a hotel fire, Eddie is crushed. He sits in his room and pouts while rocking out. Then he gets his hands on a rare recording of Sammi and it changes his whole life...cause it's possessed! Oh fook!!!

Weird stuff happens and the next thing you know a demon is slithering out of some earphones and molesting/melting a sweaty naked chick...and that's just the beginning because soon Sammi himself returns to kill!!  Eddie ends up being not a true metalhead after all because he's against all the killing.  Poser.  So now it's up to him and his cute girlfriend to stop the electrified demon spirit of Sammi from killing everybody on the planet...or at least his high school.

TRICK OR TREAT is a fun 80's cheese-metal horror movie. Terrible 80's rock, "Skippy" from "Family Ties" completely miscast as the main character, cameo appearances by Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons, quick pace (the stuff right after Sammi's return is the highlight of the movie), lots of high school scenes, 80's hair metal merch, nice little topless scene, 80's fashions.

Not quiet as awesome as BLACK ROSES, but better than ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE. If you dig goofy 80's horror then it's worth checking out. Might make an interesting double-feature with BRAINSCAN.

Mic hanging way down.