Shock 'Em Dead

While entertainment executives and apologists smugly deny any causal relationship between heavy metal music and devil-worship, exploitation filmmakers perversely crank out one horror flick after another that confirm every fundamentalist minister's worst suspicions: heavy metal summons demons, corrupts youth, creates maniacs, subverts Western civilization. There's seldom any real criticism aimed at the music industry or fans in these films; in fact the trappings of pop superstardom are childishly glamorized. This trend would be worthy of study if only the movies, like SHOCK 'EM DEAD, weren't so utterly shallow and forgettable.

Martin (Stephen Quadros) is a path...