The 80's was a prime time for hard rock and heavy metal, but the country also made a shift towards the right in the Reagan years with uptight yuppie parent groups scrambling to squash heavy metal. Blood Roses seems like a project that would be championed by the PMRC. Blood Roses is a ultra cheesy hair metal band that the members of it are demons with a mission statement to corrupt the normie suburban youth. The film itself is equally as cheesy. However, a Hallow's Eve song DIE( Death In Effect) gets played in the film. Also there is a melted Mentors record as well. So the film gets some points for giving props to Metal Blade recording artists. Black Roses is decent production value wise in comparison with other hard rock horror movies. However, to me this is just dated and cheesy and don't really do much to make metal look good to people that don't know much about it. Black Roses could easily be the best or the worst movie depending on your sense of humor.
Review of Black Roses
