Plot:
Oh, a Dino de Laurentiis production, classy...
A scary voice is talking about the power he will receive for 24 years if he sells his soul.
Metal lover's room. Ozzy and various other pictures adorn the walls. Skippy isn't his name in the movie. But, it's his biggest role. I like the sound of a metal head called
Skippy. Anyways, he's writing to his metal hero. We get a montage of the hell Skippy endures. He's a social outcast, butt of jokes. Skippy is taunted mercilessly by the jocks. He
is not quite the 80s male version of Carrie. But, it seems to be fairly close. After one truly embar-assing joke, we actually find a girl that thinks it is horrible to make Skippy suffer like
they do. She is Leslie. And, you can say potential girlfriend if she survives.
The montage ends as he keeps writing the letter. His hero, Sammi Curr, went to the same high school that Skippy suffers at. He's about to mail the letter. He learns from TV
that he Sammi was killed in a hotel fire. Sammi also wanted to play a Halloween Concert at the high school, but various groups blocked the concert.
Skippy is upset at the loss of his hero. Trashes a lot of the posters in his room, leaves the giant black velvet painting of Sammi alone. That night, Skippy heads down to the
local rock station, where Gene Simmons, I mean DJ Nuke is on the air. Skippy felt like Sammi was the reason for living. Nuke tries to make him realize that is a load. Nuke knew
Sammi. He gives Skippy the only copy of Sammi's unreleased record. This could only happen before the 90s. A dead artist seems to put out more albums than living ones. Nuke
has a cassette copy of it, he'll play on Halloween. Possible plot point.
Next day, Nerd-Boy checks on Skippy. The whole Sammi thing. Leslie gives Skippy a tape of his back and a picture of yesterday's embar-assing incident. She invites him to
a pool party. Why do I think that something bad will happen there?
Skippy gets in his car and drives to the pool party. He gets in and is locking for Leslie. Jock-Boy and the goon squad find him first. Sneak a weight into his backpack and push
him in the pool. He sinks to the bottom unable to get out until Leslie saves him. He accuses her of setting him up, which she denies. Why would she deny setting him up? Maybe,
she's not evil and likes Skippy.
Back in his room, he gets out the record to play. After the record starts, Skippy sees a burning house and hears
It's like the White album, only Evilllllllll
chanting in a strange language. Sammi is in a circle of fire. This gives Skippy the great idea of playing the record backwards.
Next day, Skippy sets up a mop bucket at a certain location. Strategically places a rolling chair, too. He then heads to lunch. Leslie wants to talk with him. Dude, you've got a
chick chasing after you while you sit in a dark room playing records backwards. Skippy heads straight up to the jocks and tosses Jock-boy's tray in his face and runs like the
wind. Through halls and stairwells, uses the aforementioned rolling chair to slow them down. This has to be the largest high school in the country. Through the library, through the
band room where the goons trip over some band members, Skippy is running from the band of jocks. He uses the same trick with the mop bucket. They don't see Skippy go down a
hall and see a door close slowly. Jock-boy grabs a fire extinguisher and busts through the door. Soaking Skippy down. Wait, Skippy isn't in the room. Jock-boy just hosed down
the teacher's lounge. Skippy sneaks out of the room across the hall he was hiding in.
Skippy is trying to convince Nerd-boy about the album. Skippy thinks the message was meant specifically for him. Nerd-boy gives us the record industry just but backwards
messages for people to wear out their records by playing them backwards. Later on, Skippy makes a cassette duplicate of the album. He doesn't hear the message now. Suddenly, he
hears a voice and maniacal laughter. Skippy starts using the record like an ouija board. He starts asking it questions. It is part of the plan. His mom wants to know who's in
there. Skippy is given a room number in the high school to go to.
The room is for the shop class. Listens to the cassette copy of the album and eating his lunch, Jock-boy and his goons show in the room where Skippy is. They beat up
Skippy. Make some vague threats. The shop's power tools all start turning them on. Skippy cuts the power right before Jock-boy would get a new hole in his forehead. The jocks
leave as we see that the walkman is still playing.
Our intrepid hero...
At his house, his Mom is bringing up his laundry. I think she finally realizes her son is metal-head. She looks through some of his records. The stereo blares, scares her. The
high-pitched volume shatters glass in the room. She tries turning the volume down, which fails. Suddenly, everything turns off at once. Skippy is at the door seeing his Mom.
Later, Skippy lights some candles and plays the record backwards again. He has another duplicate of the album.
At school, Jock-boy finds a note and a tape from Skippy in his locker. People are getting ready for the Halloween dance. That dates this movie. Nowadays, it's a Fall
Festival. Can't acknowledge it being Halloween... Skippy skipped a midterm. Nerd-boy tells he flunked. Leslie catches up to them. Skippy is now confident.
That night, Jock-boy is making out with his teen queen, Jeannie. But, the call of the wild is overridden by the call of nature. He goes off to tap a kidney. Well, Jeannie finds the
tape puts it in a walkman and listens to it. A green glow creeps over her. A green glow has talented fingers. Talented enough to pop her blouse's buttons. She's really into the music
now. Monstrous demon thing materializes. She screams. When Jock-boy returns Jeannie is unconscious. He notices that it was Skippy's tape. He might not be the sharpest bulb in
the drawer, but knows something is going on and Skippy is involved...
I'm feeling relaxed now that I'm glowing....
Skippy's Mom is watching a show on the evils of rock music. We get Reverend Ozzy. The fact Ozzy has a cameo against the evils of rock music.
It's the right Reverend Ozzy!!
He's discussing an album title with the host. Do It Like a Dog.
In the dark room of Skippy, he hears Jock-boy screaming for him. Skippy goes outside. Jock-boy's girlfriend is in the hospital. Jock-boy is going to get rid of Skippy once
and for all. But, Skippy can make flames shoot out of jack-o-lanterns. Jock-boy just wants to be left alone.
Skippy questions the record about Jeannie. Skippy wants to end it now. No more revenge. The voice wants to get Leslie. Skippy tries to convince the Voice that she's innocent
and to leave her alone. Mom is outside the door and wants to talk with Skippy. Jock-boy's dad wants to talk with Skippy. The Voice wants to get rid of Mom. Skippy tells her to
stay out and everything is fine. The Voice can impersonate Skippy and is asking for her to come inside the room. Skippy manages to keep her out of the room.
He can't unplug the stereo. The stereo shocks him. Things are rattling around in the room. Something starts to pulsate out of a crate. Skippy isn't sure what's happening. A
flash of lightning, our jukebox hero finally appears. Sammi Curr arrives into this movie. Well, imagine every heavy metal singer cliché. And that would be a pretty good description
of Sammi. Skippy is watching the Reverend Ozzy show, too. Sammi tells Skippy to be loyal to his hero and vanishes. Mom comes in his room as Skippy is beating his stereo with
a bat.
The next day, Skippy calls Nerd-boy with a big favor. By the way, Nerd-boy has an actual name Roger. But, I'm a Sluggy
Freelance fan. Skippy needs him to get the tape from Jock-boy's car and to destroy it. Nerd-boy breaks into the car and gets the tape easily. At his house, he's looking at the
tape when Skippy calls to see how it went. Nerd-boy lies about destroying the tape. Why is it so important? He starts to play. While in the kitchen, various appliances run
amuck. The living room is very smoky. Nerd-boy runs into Sammi who gives him a simple choice: play the tape at the dance or die.
Mom leaves the house. Skippy is grounded for destroying his stereo with a baseball bat. I'm sure she'd love him to explain it. The spirit of evil heavy metal singer which I invoked
by playing his album backwards is why I destroyed my expensive stereo. Skippy wouldn't have gotten that far before the head-shrinkers are called. Well, tonight is Halloween.
At the dance, Nerd-boy gets to the tape player and gets ready to play it when he's interrupted by Leslie. Skippy is at the house. Leslie calls him. He hears Sammi's album being
played in the background. Skippy gets in his car and drives to the school. If only it were that simple. The car has a mind of its own. And that mind is determined to keep him from
the dance. Car starts trying to kill him. Skippy gets the brilliant idea to disconnect the radio which will keep Sammi from controlling it. Skippy hotfoots it to the school.
At the dance, the tape is stopped as the live band is introduced. They warm up. The guitarist is electrocuted. Sammi appears on stage with the guitar. The crowd is pumped. The band follows his lead. The concert starts. They think it's actually a Sammi impersonator. Sammi is jumping around like an evil gymnastic David Lee Roth. The song he plays isn't heavy metal. It sounds more like a fluffy hair band song.
Sammi starts shooting lightning bolts from the guitar randomly striking people in the crowd being barbecued by the guitar shooting lightning bolts. Would it be hard to
understand there is panic in the gym? Sammi shoots at the band, now. The crowd is trapped, unable to escape. Get to see leather-pants wearing soul-selling heavy-metaleer
swinging around the gym like Tarzan, too.
Leslie is changing out of her costume. Jock-boy shows up mid-change and asks her about Skippy. Speaking of our little metal head, he gets to the high school and finds
Nerd-boy. Jock-boy is angry at Skippy, he doesn't want Leslie hurt. Yeah, sure. He's really polite after insulting her, etc... Skippy and Nerd-boy are going to shut down the power
which should get rid of Sammi. Jock-boy is putting the moves on Leslie who shoots him. Our masculine heroic Jock-boy smacks her around. Leslie has enough sense to run from
this idiot.
Skippy starts destroying some cassettes. Jock-boy is running after Leslie. He didn't mean it. Skippy begins his search for Leslie. Skippy and Jock-boy run into each other. Sammi
gets Jock-boy, Toasted Jock-boy. Skippy manages to get away and find Leslie.
The cops are on the scene. Skippy and Leslie are trying to cut the power. Sammi on the scene. Nerd-boy tries to get to main power box, manages to short the power. Sammi
disappears.
Cops are trying to unravel what happened. One guy point at Skippy and blames him. So the cops automatically think it's his fault. More than that Skippy and Leslie run. They
must be guilty. Right? They outrun the out of shape police and Leslie wants to know what is going on. He explains the record playing, Sammi, etc...Skippy realizes that Nuke has a
copy of the album to play. They try to contact the radio station to keep them from playing it.
The album will be played backwards. Sammi can appear from any radio. Skippy and Leslie manage to get to his house to hide. Individually destroy each radio. Leslie looks for
the keys to his Mom's car. She can't find them. Leslie and Skippy find them in the bathroom. Sammi shows up. He burns through the door.
Skippy and Leslie are in the corner. Skippy throws a hamper at Sammi. Sammi staggers and his hand falls in the toilet. Yes, the toilet water is causing Sammi pain. He is
screaming in pain. To add insult to injury, Leslie flushes the stool, Sammi is still stuck with his hand and he's wailing like a banshee. Skippy and Leslie have enough sense to get
out of Dodge.
The lightshow and the cries of pain in the bathroom stops. Skippy tries to disconnect the radio from his Mom's car before Sammi can control it. Car drives down the road. They
take the cop car belonging to late cop Sammi electrocuted earlier.
Go to the radio station, Skippy checks it out and, it looks like Sammi was here earlier. Weird stuff is going on in the broadcast booth. Skippy's great plan consists of drawing
Sammi away from the station and having Leslie get the tape. Skippy takes a radio with him and drives away.
Skippy keeps insulting Sammi until he appears from the radio. But, he's in the backseat with the metal grill separating them. Leslie goes back into the station. Skippy drives
the car into the river. Leslie gets the tape and destroys it. Skippy is clear of the car. Leslie is waiting at the station when Skippy returns. Touching reunion. Skippy starts the
morning program at the station and the movie ends.
