TRICK OR TREAT

Monday, October 27th at 8:00 p.m.

It's MONDO MONDAYS at The Loft, celebrating weird, wild and wonderful flicks from the Mondo side of the silver screen! Admission is only $2.00, and don't forget to check out our yummy "Mondo Munchies" snack bucket ... fill a cup for a buck!

"This rock-n-roll horror flick is a kick-ass 1986 time capsule ... it takes the then-contemporary appetite for 80s hair metal, the devil-worship debate that surrounded it, and the brainless 80s teen horror film and merges them inside one of Seth Brundle's telepods. But is the resulting creation a treat? Hell yes!" - EAT MY BRAINS.COM

It's a heavy metal Halloween at The Loft when Mondo Mondays presents the schlock-tastic 80s horror flick, TRICK OR TREAT, starring Marc Price (Skippy from Family Ties!), Kiss-man Gene Simmons as a nasty metal radio DJ, and a special appearance by the one-and-only Ozzy Osbourne as a sleazy televangelist!
Remember when Tipper Gore, the PMRC and other Uptight Citizens' Brigades had us all convinced that heavy metal records, when played backwards, could summon the devil, turning all unsuspecting headbangers into bloodthirsty minions of the horny hound of hell? Well, the makers of TRICK OR TREAT were sure paying attention, and director Charles Martin Smith (who also played Toad in American Graffiti) unleashed this tricky treat in 1986, at the height of the metal-mania scare.
Eddie Weinbauer (Price) is a typical All-American teenager, at least he was until he fell under the evil spell of heavy metal music. Now he's obsessed with his heavy-metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr (a vision in teased hair and a ripped leather bodysuit), who is killed in a hotel fire. Through a strange series of events, Eddie comes into possession of the only copy of Curr's unreleased album, which when played backwards sends a metal message of destruction to all mankind. Oh yeah, it also raises Sammi from the grave, and this pissed-off rocker is ready to take on anyone who dares criticize his music! As Halloween approaches, the apocalypse draws near, and Eddie begins to realize it isn't only rock and roll ... it's a life and death situation, and he must grow a pair - pronto! - if he's going to save the world from the demonic headbanger!