It plays out like one feature-length music video that puts Guitar Wolf’s distortion-infused, punk-influenced attitude and sound at the forefront while they slaughter zombies along the way. The horror-comedy is based on a simple setup: aliens are responsible for unleashing the zombie apocalypse, and only Japanese rock band Guitar Wolf can save the day.
Japanese garage punk rock band Guitar Wolf play themselves here. The rock star plays the villainous role well, but he might be upstaged a bit by Clancy Brown as the empathetic Viktor, the Monster. The Bride is, of course, another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, though it wasn’t well-received upon release. The former Police frontman might’ve stolen scenes as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in David Lynch’s Dune, but his turn as the arrogant Baron Charles Frankenstein is his most robust role in the genre.
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But Flea also starred as the bumbling Jester the Alien in the obscure ’80s sci-fi movie Stranded, which saw his alien clan kidnap a woman and her grandma while on the run from bounty hunters. Horror fans will likely recognize him most as Bob Summerfield, a clerk employed at Sam Loomis Hardware in Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake. In horror, that began with a small voice role in the 1983 anthology Nightmare s. Curve was the right-hand man to the film’s big bad and responsible for committing the heinous inciting act that revived a new Crow.Ī founding member and the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers pursued minor work in movies since the ’80s. But one of his most prominent genre roles was the villainous Curve in The Crow: City of Angels. In horror, the musician appeared in Tales from the Crypt episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud,” lent his voice to Hardware, plays a music producer in the rock horror movie Suck, and showcased his comedic chops in The Dead Don’t Die. Iggy Pop, designated the “Godfather of Pop” thanks to proto-punk band The Stooges, long embraced work in television and film. Read on as we revisit Strangeland, Prince of Darkness and more…
These ten rockers temporarily left the stage to step into the horror spotlight. But it’s not the only place where you can spot famous rock musicians in the genre space. So, it makes sense that the genres would bleed together to create a subgenre of heavy metal horror. The two outcasts have been tied together for decades – especially thanks to the Satanic Panic era – for their showmanship, energy, and revelry in darker themes and imagery. It’s the latest entry in an enduring history of horror movies to feature rock stars few things complement each other as well as horror and rock music. New release Studio 666 sees the Foo Fighters attempting to complete their tenth album when frontman Dave Grohl falls under the sway of a demonic hymn.