By Richard Winters
My Rating: 1 out of 10
4-Word Review: Rock band gets slaughtered.
In a remote Canadian farmhouse a family is killed by some evil spirits from hell. Now, years later a rock band called The Tritons uses the place as a recording studio, but soon both they and their girlfriends start getting killed off one-by-one by the same spirits. Eventually only lead singer John (Jon Mikl Thor) remains and with his big muscular physique and fashionably long hair decides to take them on singlehandedly.
This low budget cheapie was shot at an isolated farmhouse near Markham, Ontario in a mere seven days and suffers from an excessive amount of footage on stuff that doesn’t matter like spending the first five minutes watching the group’s van driving down the highway. The dialogue and characters are predictably cardboard and the special effects unimpressive except for the moment where a monster’s hand pops out of a guy’s stomach, which wasn’t bad.
The film, which ends up being nothing more than a vanity project of its star who also wrote and produced it, has a million and one holes. For one thing it is never explained why these spirits attack this farmhouse or why a big sound studio was built in a place that had a family slaughtered in it or even why the people that constructed the studio weren’t killed just like the family and band members were.
If you are going to watch it then do like I did with a few beers at hand and a group of people who make jokes at it much of which are far more entertaining than anything on the screen.
My Rating: 1 out of 10
Alternate Title: The Edge of Hell
Released: July, 1987
Runtime: 1Hour 23Minutes
Rated R
Director: John Fasano
Studio: Shapiro Entertainment
Available: DVD
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