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TRICK OR TREAT
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Who would have known that Skippy from Family Ties was really a metalhead destined to save his high school from hell? Well, it's true. Watch out, Sammi Curr! Eddie Weinbuaer (Marc Price) a.k.a. Skippy is your typical teenager. He wears denim, lots of dark clothes, listens to cool music, wears headbands, and gets thrown in swimming pools by preppy jocks. Also, the girls all hate him (except not!) and the cool kids make fun of his private diary broodings. Oh well, he still won't stop listening to his favourite music, the stylings of Sammi Curr! (Tony Fields). You'd think all is well in the world, but as it turns out, Curr has died in a hotel fire, and Skippy is devastated. Enter Gene Simmons (yes, the one and only Gene Simmons from KISS), Skippy's radio dj friend, who just happens to have the only master platter of Curr's very last recording! Gene is on instructions to play the recording at the stroke of midnight on Halloween. No problem, he made a tape and gives the record to Skippy, who is so appreciative he says words like "awesome" and "neat" and "whoa!" As it turns out, the record is backmasked! For those of you who aren't cool people, that means there is spoken word recorded backwards along with the music! Skippy realizes immediately that this is no ordinary backmasked album, oh no! This backmasking is personal, ever changing and eager to provide instructions to young Skippy. It is not until after he has nearly killed two of his enemies and melted the brains of another girl (after successfully getting her raped by a giant fish-demon) that Skippy realizes hey, man, this stuff is evil! Sammi then appears, all burned but in the flesh! He has to get serious with Skippy. Skippy is non-compliant. Sammi notices a preacher on TV who is crusading against the evils of heavy metal. What's this? Sammi's evil touch is far-reaching, as he is able to cause the poor minister a horrible death (via brain anuerism) by simply touching the tv screen! We can't help but laugh though. On closer inspection, the preacher actor is actually Ozzy Osbourne in his big cameo! Anyway, he's dead, and Skippy is freaked! Then Sammi drops the biggest bombshell of all: he intends to...I dunno, but it's evil! And it's going to happen when the album is played over the air on Halloween! And he went to the same high school as Skippy! And the high school wouldn't allow him to play there earlier that year, so now he's pissed! And who wouldn't be? Skippy destroys the record, but not before Sammi almost destroys him. Then skippy asks his school chum to destroy the copied tape of the record that had been left in his walkman. No problem! But first, the friend listens to it. Sammi appears and I'm not sure, but I think he rapes a couch or something! And he threatens the chum, who has no choice but to play the tape at the school dance that night. Sammi appears at the dance, kills the band and rocks out superhard. How hard does he rock? He rocks so freakin' hard that he can shoot massive electrical energy from his guitar, killing students by the dozens! It may not be nice, but it's a pretty damn sweet concept. He may be from hell, but we've gotta give props to Sammi Curr for coolness and originality. I mean come on, what kid hasn't at some point wanted to shoot lightning out of their guitar? I rest my case. Skippy's car freaks out and Sammy is in the backseat. Then his bathroom shower freaks out (there's a radio in there) and Sammi is wet and pissed. Then the radio station freaks out, but the token chick cuts the power. I think we're safe. We're never quite sure, but we think Sammi is dead, because Skippy traps him in the backseat of a policecar, then drives it off a rediculously high bridge to nowhere! They splash down, and Skippy pops up from under the water, cheering. I guess he won or something. So the moral of the story is when your rock idol cannot be killed by fire, you must drown him or he will send everybody to hell. On Halloween. Trick or Treat! © 2005 actionplant.com. all rights reserved.
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