Revisiting "Slaughterhouse Rock"
Sep. 20th, 2018 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI miss video stores. Back when I was a teenager, they were everywhere. Not just Blockbuster Video, but a legion of mom-and-pop independent video stores. Walking through the aisles looking for a movie to watch was fun. The box art was often beautiful and it was a mix of blockbuster films and independent (sometimes just plain "cheap") movies.
One of the movies that I remember renting over and over was a 1988 horror movie called "Slaughterhouse Rock." A handsome, furry guy with big mullet hair has horrible dreams of a monster and he and his college friends go to Alcatraz Island to find out why where most of them get killed. It's full of 80's fashion, hair, and musical styles. In fact, the biggest star in the movie is Toni Basil and the soundtrack was written and performed by Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo.
The acting in this flick is average at best. The lead actor is the cutest, but he's also the worst actor in the bunch. He's not the only furry man in the movie either and all of them are shirtless at least once in the film.
Being a closeted gay teen, all that shirt-free furriness was intoxicating to watch. Whenever I had a spare dollar or two, I'd rent the movie over the weekend again. The movie crossed my mind earlier this week, so I checked to see if it finally got released on DVD via Amazon and was surprised that it had been. So I ordered it and it arrived today.
I watched it tonight and while the furriness held up, the movie is far more campy than I remember, but then it is 30 years older now. Still, it'll be fun to watch now and then.
One of the movies that I remember renting over and over was a 1988 horror movie called "Slaughterhouse Rock." A handsome, furry guy with big mullet hair has horrible dreams of a monster and he and his college friends go to Alcatraz Island to find out why where most of them get killed. It's full of 80's fashion, hair, and musical styles. In fact, the biggest star in the movie is Toni Basil and the soundtrack was written and performed by Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo.
The acting in this flick is average at best. The lead actor is the cutest, but he's also the worst actor in the bunch. He's not the only furry man in the movie either and all of them are shirtless at least once in the film.Being a closeted gay teen, all that shirt-free furriness was intoxicating to watch. Whenever I had a spare dollar or two, I'd rent the movie over the weekend again. The movie crossed my mind earlier this week, so I checked to see if it finally got released on DVD via Amazon and was surprised that it had been. So I ordered it and it arrived today.
I watched it tonight and while the furriness held up, the movie is far more campy than I remember, but then it is 30 years older now. Still, it'll be fun to watch now and then.
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Date: 2018-09-24 02:42 pm (UTC)I miss a few things like this that are gone forever, especially old comic shops, with their boxes full of old treasures to peruse, wish for and sometimes buy. Cruising comics on ebay just isn't the same LOL