Charles Martin Smith

this week we're cranking the volume to 11 spinning some records backwards and discovering if heavy metal might actually be the devil's music as we revisit trick or treat the 1986 heavy metal horror flick directed by charles martin smith and starring mark price tony fields and lisa orgolini with some special cameo metal appearances from rock favorites like uh well we'll talk about it When a bullied teenage metalhead gets his hands on the final recording of his recently deceased rock idol, he discovers that playing it backward can summon more than a few hidden messages.

But when his favorite musician actually returns from the dead with a seriously aggressive comeback tour, things get way out of hand.

Nearly 40 years later, does this head-banging horror classic still rock, or is it time to pull the plug?

I got some interesting notes for you.

Do it.

The director of this film is Charles Martin Smith, who I guarantee you don't know by name.

Absolutely not.

I did not.

This is a supernatural horror movie.

It was directed by Charles Martin Smith.

Important to note that this is his first directing effort.

At the box office, it pulled in $6.8 million against a budget of $3.5 million.

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We have the principal on stage.

That's Mr. Wimbley, actually played by the film's director, Charles Martin Smith.

He is introducing a band called The Kickers.

I thought she would be minimum four and a half for you.

Charles Martin Smith, 73 today.

He was great in The Untouchables, among other things.

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on this episode of the rocklopedia fake bandica it's the spooky season of halloween again and we look at three more metal exploitation flicks from the 1980s and today this is the rocklopedia fake bandica so Welcome to the Rocklapedia Fake Bandica, your number one source for fictional music in pop culture.

I'm Charles.

There's Alan.

Hail Satan, everybody.

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my my question is were they the only four people in the cemetery yeah

Excellent point, Charles.

Were they not listening to the other people? It didn't come up.

Sort of earlier, and I mean, I think the two films are kind of strangely intertwined.

I mean, even going back to the music aspect of it, you know, but even like Arnie, he's very much like Charlie Martin Smith in American Graffiti.

That sort of, even the way he looks and the hair and the glasses.

I've never made that comparison,

I think really well.

I think it's, and it's so, the transformation is so subtly done.

In a lot of films, you know, sometimes there's like literally a scene and somebody comes down and, you know, the, the, the totally different, like, I know, and go back to Greece, Olivia and John were suddenly it's a, it's sort of a very sort of major transformation, but it's so subtly, drawn and even the the clothes that he wear changes and i mean even the way he's dressed throughout the movie he's wearing like a harrington jacket from the 1950s or 60s you know like um james dean and rebel so he's got that that geeky look again like like charlie martin smith and the performance he goes from having so little confidence to being very I think it's such a well-balanced performance that I think, you know, it could have been very, very bad, but he manages to keep it so right.

I mean, Keith Gordon had built his career on playing these nerdy characters like in Jaws 2 or in Dressed to Kill, and then suddenly he starts doing that here and then flips it around to something much, much darker.