Rocktober Blood
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| Rocktober Blood | |
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| Directed by | Beverly Sebastian |
| Written by | Beverly Sebastian Ferd Sebastian |
| Produced by | Beverly Sebastian Ferd Sebastian |
| Starring | Tray Loren Donna Scoggins Cana Cockrell |
| Distributed by | Vestron Video |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rocktober Blood is a 1984 horror film, directed by Beverly Sebastian and starring Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins and Cana Cockrell. It features the band Sorcery as actors and on the soundtrack.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]The film opens in a recording studio, where singer Billy "Eye" Harper is in a session working on a few tracks with his band and his girlfriend Lynn Starling, also a backup 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 the recording engineer's offer to join her.
Meanwhile, Billy returns to the studio, where he finds only Kevin and Mary, 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, 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 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 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.[3]
Cast
[edit]- Tray Loren as Billy "Eye" Harper/John Harper
- Donna Scoggins as Lynn Starling
- Kevin Eddy as Kevin
- Mary Well as Mary
- Cana Cockrell as Honey Bear
- Renee Hubbard as Donna Lewis
- Nigel Benjamin as Chris Keane
- Ben Sebastian as head of security
Headmistress Band
- Perry Morris - Drums
- Richard Taylor - Guitar
- Richie King - Bass
- Lon Cohen - Guitar
Soundtrack
[edit]| Rocktober Blood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1984 |
| Studio | Record Plant, Los Angeles |
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| Label | Sebastian International |
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The songs "Killer on the Loose," "I'm Back," "Rainbow Eyes" and "Watching You" on the soundtrack were recorded by the Los Angeles-based band Sorcery, who also play the part of the Headmistress band in the film.
On the tracks written and performed by Sorcery, Nigel Benjamin sang three songs: "Killer on the Loose," "I'm Back" and "Watching You." Susie Rose Major sang "Rainbow Eyes" and "Kcab m'I". The group Facedown did "Touch Me," "High School Boys," "Watch Me Rock" and "Can't Kill Rock 'n Roll." "Soul Searcher" was performed by the Eyes.
The Soundtrack and film were re-released in September 2015 by Lunaris Records.[4]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Performed by | Length |
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| 1. | "I'm Back" | Sorcery feat. Nigel Benjamin | 4:04 |
| 2. | "Rainbow Eyes" | Sorcery feat. Susie Rose Major | 3:30 |
| 3. | "Killer On the Loose" | Sorcery feat. Nigel Benjamin | 4:10 |
| 4. | "kcaB m'I" | Sorcery feat. Susie Rose Major | 4:10 |
| 5. | "Watching You" | Sorcery feat. Nigel Benjamin | 3:56 |
| No. | Title | Performed by | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Watch Me Rock" | Facedown | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Touch Me" | Facedown | 3:13 |
| 3. | "High School Boys" | Facedown | 4:27 |
| 4. | "Can't Kill Rock and Roll" | Facedown | 3:25 |
| 5. | "Soul Searcher" | Eyes | 4:00 |
Personnel
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References
[edit]- ^ "Loose talk loses lives - interview with Ferd Sebastian". Hysteria Lives.
- ^ Free, Erin (6 July 2023). "Unsung Auteurs: Beverly & Ferd Sebastian". Filmink.
- ^ "Heavymetalhorror.com". Archived from the original on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
- ^ "Search: 5 results found for "Rocktober Blood"". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
External links
[edit]- 1984 films
- 1984 independent films
- 1980s mystery horror films
- 1980s serial killer films
- 1980s teen horror films
- American teen horror films
- 1984 horror films
- American mystery horror films
- American slasher films
- Films directed by Beverly Sebastian
- Films directed by Ferd Sebastian
- 1980s slasher films
- Heavy metal films
- 1980s English-language films
- 1980s American films
- English-language horror films
- English-language independent films
- English-language crime films
- English-language mystery films