Rocktober Blood

Plot synopsis:
The film opens in a recording studio, where singer Billy "Eye" Harper (Tray Loren) is in a session working on a few tracks with his band and his girlfriend Lynn Starling (Donna Scoggins), also a back up singer. After he finishes the recording, Billy and the rest of the band leave. Despite trying to record her own vocal tracks, Lynn is left to go to the jacuzzi upstairs, after refusing Kevin (Kevin Eddy) the recording engineer's offer to join her.
Meanwhile, Billy returns to the studio, where he finds only Kevin and Mary (Mary Well), Kevin's assistant. In an enigmatic move, Billy kills Kevin by slitting his throat and impales Mary on a wall-mounted coat peg. When Lynn returns, she finds Billy smoking some drugs at the recording studio's control panel. Lynn is unaware that Billy has just killed both Kevin and Mary while she was gone. Once Lynn finds out, she is saved by some security guards.
After a brief intermission, it is two years later, where it is revealed that Billy was captured, tried and executed. It is now the "Rocktober Blood Tour Press Party", and Lynn and the remaining band members are touring as "Headmistress". A VJ who interviews Lynn, asks several questions about the band's tour, as well as Billy's fall from grace, to which Lynn responds by stating that identifying Billy was "the hardest thing she ever had to do." A mysterious figure then appears in a Halloween "death" mask, and tells Lynn to meet with Chris (Nigel Benjamin), the band's manager, in the office. When she arrives in the office, she is cornered by Billy, in the same death mask, who leaves her curled up, and crying on the floor. After that, Billy persistently stalks Lynn, killing people involved with her along the way, but hiding their bodies, to make others think she is crazy by claiming that Billy is after her.
Eventually Honey (Cana Cockrell) convinces Lynn to dig up Billy's grave. They find out that Billy is dead, and Lynn assumes that she is hallucinating. The next night, Lynn and the band are getting ready for the show, when Billy reappears and tells Lynn that he is really his Billy's twin brother, John Harper, and that she identified the wrong man. John tells Lynn that the people he killed valued Billy more than him, even though he wrote the renowned songs himself. Then John chloroforms Lynn, and the show begins. A prop coffin pops up on the stage, and Lynn is revealed inside. John tells her that his plan is to kill her as the show's grand finale. When John removes his mask, however security rushes in, attacking him with an electric guitar.
John manages to scream out the final lyrics to "I'm Back" before the credits roll.

Tags: cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist

Review:
Full metal meets average slasher flick.
At the movie's best scene the killer is stabbing dancing girls on stage with a sword/mic stand.
The most unexciting and unoriginal moments include a series of phone calls with no one on the line and the obligatory digging up the killer's grave in the night to see if he lives.The rock music is great and full songs are played several times.
If the viewer does not go for power metal or 80's rock videos, they may not be wild about this flick.
In a creative scene, the hero is chased by an unseen menace while metal music is played backwards on the soundtrack.A great movie for metal fans with patience for mediocre horror..
Rocks hard, but sucks worse.
ROCKTOBER BLOOD, one of the myriad of glam metal horror flicks from the mid-to-late-'80s (BLACK ROSES, ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE, HARD ROCK ZOMBIES, etc.), is possibly the worst out of all of them.
It's a D-level slasher with only one saving grace: the rockin' soundtrack.Basically, the set-up is the singer of a hair metal group goes nuts and kills some people (only two on-screen, but later on, they say 25??).
He gets sent to the electric chair, and the singer's ex-girlfriend starts the band back up again.
The acting is painfully bad, especially the mumbling, uncharismatic killer character.
45 minutes in the middle consist only of a woman swearing Billy "Eye" is back from the dead and people telling her she's crazy.
No other characters do anything the entire film, and the body count is surprisingly low.
The first 70 minutes are honestly really hard to get through.If you make it to the end, you're treated with a killer performance scene by Sorcery (better known for STUNT ROCK), some fun kills and some catchy hair metal tunes.
But ten good minutes out of ninety is not enough, and I would recommend all but the biggest '80s metal/horror fans give this one a hard pass.
Check out TRICK OR TREAT or ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE to see this sub-genre done right..
Rocktober Blood Film Music.
This is just another horror film that is really no better or worse than most of them made in the 70's,and before.
What makes this film interesting is the MUSIC done in the "on stage concert scenes and in the recording studio scenes" and not the acting or dialog or the production value.
This is actually some of the best Horror film music I've heard,and I have heard a lot of it.
The soundtrack to this movie was hard to find, BUT..I did locate one on E-Bay and it was well worth it.
It's no surprise that the best part of the picture is the music done by professional players.
After all...most movie soundtracks are done by pro players.
Yes...The music on the LP does contain some movie filler tracks,but the concert scenes music in the picture are also included which makes this worth having.
I felt the songs "I'm Back", "Rainbow Eyes", "Killer on the Loose" and "Watching You" are really better than the picture.
ROCKTOBER BLOOD/The music made it!.
The best part of the picture is the music, played, in partby the rock band "Sorcery".
I recently saw an ROCKTOBER BLOOD lp(not vhs) available on e-bay that went for$89!!!
Great music, movie ok.......
Fast forward to the end to see the rock band Sorcery..
This film has one good thing about it, the rock band Sorcery did the sound track and appears at the end of the flick..
Billy "Eye" Harper is a hard rocker who killed 25 people and was later sentenced to death and executed.The only survivor of Billy's rampage is a part-time singer Lynn Starling.Two years ago Lynn wants to go with her new band Headmistress on Rocktober Blood tour.But Billy is not dead and he starts killing people around her..."Rocktober Blood" is one of the better heavy metal/slasher movies of 80's.There is a bit of tension and some lines are priceless for example ""I want your hot steaming pussy blood all over my face".The killings include eviscerations,a nasty impaling and a pretty good decapitation.The acting is terrible,but I must say that I enjoyed hard rocking soundtrack of "Rocktober Blood".7 out of 10..
Head banging horror fun..
Two years after heavy rock star Billy "Eye" Harper is executed for the murder of twenty five people, his ex-girlfriend Lynn Starling, now lead singer of Billy's old band, finds herself stalked by a man she believes to be the dead rocker.If you want a film that is the embodiment of cheesy '80s horror, look no further than Rocktober Blood, a silly slasher that couldn't be more '80s if it were wearing day-glo legwarmers and playing with a Rubik's cube.
From the opening scene, in which Billy "Eye" Harper (Tray Loren) belts out his new number 'I'm Back', to the ridiculous rock gig finalé, the film is a total hoot, a not-in-the-least-bit-frightening melange of gaudy fashion, body popping, break dancing, big-hair heavy metal, hokey gore, gratuitous nudity and sexy aerobics routines.The plot is pure nonsense, the direction lacks finesse, and the performances range from the mediocre to the downright awful, but it's almost impossible not to have a good time with a film that features not one but TWO nude scenes from its lead actress (in her one and only screen role, Donna Scoggins takes both a naked jacuzzi and a bubble bath), includes several half-decent songs in their entirety, incorporates a ridiculous twist into the story, and ends with a handful of grisly murders being performed on stage in front of a cheering crowd of rock fans unaware that the killings are real.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for the hilariously bad freeze-frame ending..
laughing makes the killer and the viewer happier.
A plot analysis (lol): Billy the rockstar decides making bad metal songs aren't enough so he kills off most of his friends, save his girlfriend who manages to escape (something I am glad I did not try to do from this film).
She gets poor Billy executed for the crime and starts over..
as the new front woman of his terrible band!
Of course, Billy boy returns from beyond the grave to kill again and laugh a bunch of times in a very ridiculous manner.
This is definitely a movie you need to take a few alcoholic beverages in with a few friends before hand to fully enjoy, but make no mistake about it, enjoy it you will!!!.
The over the top absurd kills (an iron held to the throat) with lots of nudity and even aerobics in leotards.
It doesn't get any better than this.If you watch the DVD version there is a part after the movie which shows how the director and his wife rescue Greyhounds now..
1984's Rocktober Blood starts with Billy "Eye" Harper singing "I'm Back" while his girlfriend and backup singer Lynn Starling watches.
Before he leaves, he tells her he wrote the song "Rainbow Eyes" for her.
Everyone in the band leaves except Lynn, who tries to record some of her own tracks before turning down the recording engineer's come on and going to the jacuzzi upstairs alone.Billy returns, only to kill the engineer while he's playing pinball by slicing his throat.
Then, he impales the engineer's assistant (he must have hated the mix) before smoking some drugs in a metal one hitter while looking like Larry Sweeney.
Lynn has no clue any of this has transpired, but she soon finds out that he's killed both of them.
Billy wants to make sure his message is coming through as he begins laughing like a villain.
Lynn discovers the assistant's body as Billy continues to laugh and menaces her with a knife, demanding that she sing.
A passing security guard saves her life and we cut to two years later and the Rocktober Blood Release party.Billy was captured, tried and executed while Lynn and the remaining band members changed their name to Headmistress.
VJ Rick Righteous stops by, does some coke and interviews Lynn about Billy's murder spree and having to finger Billy, which led to his conviction.Then, while the bands are playing and everyone is dancing and getting their faces painted and smoking cigarettes and break dancing, a mysterious figure appears and tells Lynn she needs to meet with her manager.
It's all a ruse, because it's Billy — back from the grave, just like he said he would be.
Lynn is left crying in the corner, emotionally decimated by whatever Billy said to her.I really have to note that there is way too much break dancing for a heavy metal movie.
In my experience, these worlds never played well together.Lynn goes away to a cabin, but Billy's music follows her everywhere she runs, so she tries to aerobic exorcise Billy away.
The phone keeps ringing, leading to an insane prank phone call (sampled on Acid Witch's "Midnite Movies" EP) that has the caller begging for "hot steaming pussy blood all over my face." The phone just keeps ringing and ringing, even when its off the hook, but look out!
Filmmaking couple Ferd and Beverly Sebastian tap into the then-hot idea of combining heavy metal and horror, with fair results.
Tray Loren stars as "Billy Eye" Harper, leader of a band who goes on an insane killing spree.
The testimony of his lover / backup singer Lynn Starling (Donna Scoggins) helps get him convicted and executed.
Two years later, she's now the leader of his band, and she believes that he's returned from the grave to kill all of his former associates.
Naturally, nobody believes HER, thinking that it's time for her to return to psychiatric care."Rocktober Blood" has a good title, but it's basically adequate at best.
The acting is passable right across the board, although some of the sexy ladies do get undressed for the camera, and Loren does look like he's having fun as the psycho antagonist.
The ending is not terribly satisfying.On the plus side, the songs are actually pretty good.
If you're a fan of the metal genre, you may catch yourself banging your head in appreciation.This is not one I would recommend you go out of your way to see, but it yields okay entertainment for any slasher completist.Six out of 10..
Rocktober Blood.
If this film looks more than a little familiar, think "A Nightmare On Elm Street" etc, or simply slasher.
A year after his execution, a serial killer rock musician returns from the dead to continue where he left off.
There is a slight twist on the usual non-plot in that he decides to haunt rather than murder one of his former associates, and she decides to prove he is not really dead by digging up his body.
She tries to persuade others to help her, but they think it is all in her head, so she decides to do it on her own.
As she opens his casket, Billy Harper opens his eyes and lunges for her, but she is the only one who sees this, the other two see only a rotted corpse; at this point the viewer might begin to wonder if it really is all in her head.
No, it is not, but is this really a supernatural killer or a terrestrial one putting on an act?So what does "Rocktober Blood" have to offer?
And the soundtrack is not bad, although if you think you recognise two of its titles: "Killer Without A Cause" and Rainbow Eyes", they are probably not the songs you were thinking of.There is a fair amount of gore, but it is difficult to credit this was actually banned..
Rock Legends supply the music.
This movie was bad in the beginning, awful during the tedious middle and then AMAZING for most of the last 17 minutes before finally coming to a clunky and unsatisfying finish (and no it was not a biopic of my sex life).
Oh the promise contained in those last seventeen minutes of the film...oh how that promising concept was squandered.
The female lead singer (Lynn) is the only one that knows that there is a "Killer On The Loose"!
The band is playing through a metal/gore concert not knowing that someone is actually killing the cast on stage.
Lynn is singing her trademark "Rainbow Eyes" while a disguised Billy Eye stalks her across the stage with a real sword mic stand.
- - But then, as much as I wanted to, I could no longer suspend disbelief once Billy/John takes off his mask and NOBODY reacted appropriately or even realistically.
This reaction to the revealed John/Billy ruined the very promising concept of a horror rock show with a real killer.
Why in the hell would the band start playing "I'm Back" instead of trying to rescue their lead singer, Lynn.Overall the music was the best part of this movie.
The band Sorcery played the instrumentals and the actor, Nigel Benjamin, was the dubbed over singing voice of Billy Eye. Nigel Benjamin played the manager (Chris Keane) but Nigel is also a legitimate hard rock/metal singer.
Nigel Benjamin, was, at one time, the lead singer for Mott the Hoople which famously performed the song "All the Young Dudes".
Later, in 1980, Nigel Benjamin was shortly the front-man/lead singer of the LA club band London.
Two very famous metal musicians were also in the band London with Nigel Benjamin for short periods of time: Nikki Sixx the bassist for Motley Crue and Izzy Stradlin, the rhythm guitarist for Guns N Roses.
The director of Rocktober Blood is Beverly Sebastian and she has a real knack for making movies a family affair.
Her husband, Ferd Sebastian was the Producer/Camera man/ utility manager for the movie.
Her oldest son, Ben Sebastian, played the effeminate Head of Security.
Her youngest son, under the stage name, Tray Loren, played Billy Eye and John Eye. Beverly Sebastian made a few low budget horror movies in the 1970s (Gator Bait) and each one prominently displayed the efforts of her family.Why all of the Lens Flare?
Every ten minutes there was an intentional star shaped lens flare effect..
Gloriously ludicrous 80's heavy metal horror trash.
Deranged rock singer Billy "Eye" Harper gets executed for killing twenty-five people.
Two years later Billy returns from the dead to commit a new series of murders.Boy, does this enjoyably absurd howler completely nail the sleazy decadence and outrageous excesses of the 1980's hard rock scene: We've got hideously massive overpermed hairdos, skintight leather pants, herky jerky break dancing, sweaty aerobics, coke snorting, lots of gnarly head-banging hard rock songs blaring away on the soundtrack, and, best of all, an uproariously ridiculous climatic concert which degenerates into a crazed bloodbath.
The slack (non)direction by Beverly Sebastian, gaudy cinematography, extremely variable acting, a silly story complete with a groan-inducing surprise twist, and tacky gore all further enhance this flick's considerable deliciously cheesy charm.
And I'm taking you to hell with me."That's actually a pretty cool line - thing is, it's delivered by a guy with halloween paint on his face.
They maybe spent 2 minutes making him the reincarnated guy or whatever.
As others have pointed out, there are some bad 80s glam rock horror movies out there and this is down there with the worst of them.
I'd actually like to take a minute here just to mention that "Shock 'Em Dead" is, definitively, the worst of all of them.
Every time I watch one of these horror musical movies I think "Oh hey this one looks cool" even though I know they're all super cheesy.
However, the last scene is hilarious and it's worth watching for the last 10 minutes or so..
A must see for fans of the dead rock star genre.
I decided to check it out because it had a similar premise: Rock star dies and returns to seek revenge.
Although it is nowhere near as good as Trick Or Treat (an overlooked masterpiece of the 80s), it is still quite funny and entertaining.
(Spoilers ahead)  You will no doubt notice that Billy Eye's girl does not have a scar where she was stabbed 2 years earlier.
And the scene at the end where he appears to throw one of the dancer's heads in the audience could just be a wig.
All the previous posts were correct in noting that the end is the best part of the movie.
There is an interesting similarity between this scene and the scene in Trick or Treat where Sammi Curr appears on stage at his old High School during the dance.
In both cases the crowd is surprised and pleased that the Dead Rock Star has come back to perform.
Billy Eye is determined to put on a good show and he insists on hitting the last high note of the song even after being struck with an electric guitar..
The music is the only good thing in the movie(spoiler warning).
That song keeps humming in my head.
This movie is about a lead singer who "supposebly" gets killed while being accused of murders as he stalks his girlfriend who sings backup vocals in his band.
The lead singer whos name is Billy "Eye" (yeah, right) is dead after two years and his band comes back for a concert only the backup vocalist is the lead singer this time.
Billy stalks her and eventually goes around killing all these people and terrifying the girl and makeing people around her think theres something wrong with her and that shes imagining things.
During the end of the movie we find out the reason behind all of this, Billy has a brother named John (right again) and John admits that he was jealous of his brother and that he killed all those people to get back at him and place the blame on his brother and then take his girlfriend and terrorize her because she called him crazy.
I watch it for the song.