'Black Roses' (1988) – John Fasano.

I had sincerely hoped that B-Horror hero John Fasano and the unfairly maligned micro-genre of heavy metal-infused, splatter-happy monster movies he heroically helped orchestrate might be regarded with a little more fondness today. This sadly neglected 80s cinematic sinnovation, sonorously spearheaded by video-era cult classic 'Trick or Treat', with indie fight-master Fasano's high voltaged, haemoglobin heavy, teen-creaming, demon-scheming, big-haired, babe-boffing, eardrum bleeding B-Horror classic 'Black Roses' noisily striking the right satanic discords to evilly excite legions of metal-obsessed splatter freaks! 

Malefic musical mayhem gruesomely invades the sleepy working-class town of Mill Hill Basin in the garish guise of poodle-haired, suggestively spandex-slathered metallians 'Black Roses', and after the very first devil-raising, crotch-rockingly riotous gig the terror-titillated teenaged population go from small town ennui to downtown demonized degeneracy as body-beautiful 'Black Roses' lead singer Damian (Sal Viviano) persuasively preaches his blackened, blasphemous gospel of wanton, speaker-shredding slaughter, his metallized, murder-minded minions all fatefully falling under the toxic thrall of the Black Roses blasphemously booty-calling, soul-snatching ruckus!

While a great many mediocre 80s horror movies are erroneously said to be bona fide cult classics, very few are as deserving of the often misused appellation as junk-master general John Fasano's deliciously hysterical hymnal to heavy metal monster-making madness 'Black Roses'! While the film's intellectual merits remain a 'thorny' issue, the still fragrant Black Roses scream louder than Rosemary's Baby, and, perhaps, being subjectively viewed through Black Roses-tinted glasses, this mayhemic heavy mental monster movie still rocks hellaciously hard! Blu-ray spec-heads might care to note that the print looks perfectly pristine!

'Sleepy Mill Hill Basin is about to become a sweltering hot house of horny heavy metal mayhem...me luv it long time!!!!' - TerrorTampon / VideoVixxxens.

'Scent from hell to reek heavy metal havoc, 'Black Roses' are a blooming big-haired B-Movie nightmare!' - Goosey Lucy@Buxom / Bloodfiends.

'John Fasano's cretinous creature feature 'Black Roses' has a singularly satanic stench all of its own!' - Tor Bronson / 'The Heroic Blood Shed'