Scream Dream (1989 Video) User Reviews

Metal!!!

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 24 January 2023]

How did I get this far into SOV movies without more Donald Farmer?

The band Rikk-O-Shay is trying to get big in the heavy metal business and you know what would help? If their lead singer Michelle Shock (Carol Carr) wasn't biting off their male groupies' cocks and draining them of their blood. She tries the same thing to Derrick (Nikki Riggins), who is one of the band's two backup singers and let's just stop there and say that no other hard rock or metal band seemed to ever have dedicated singers outside of Motley Crue and their Nasty Habits backup singers and dancers (the fact that I knew they were named Donna McDaniel and Emi Canyn maybe says something about how much I read Hit Parader as a teenager). This already seems unrealistic.

Well, Michelle invites Derrick over for some demonic fellatio and he ends up nearly dying too, so they replace her with a new singer named Jamie Summers and she's neither the Six Million Dollar Woman or the Brat. She's played by Melissa Moore, Glaze from Vice Academy Part 2 and Angelfist. She's soon overcome by the same demonic possession thanks to Michelle.

The fact that a full demon-suited monster is coming after a band because they screwed with their demonic leader, well, this is the kind of movie that seems like a Jack Chick pamphlet come to life. As I watch years after I was a Rip! Obsessed lover of metal, well, I found it all so very charming. So much blood, so many puppet demons, Tennessee instead of the Sunset Strip, video in the place of film. This is at the center of so many of my loves - devil movies, SOV, heavy metal, gore - all within one great compilation. Rock on.

Worthless horror video

[lor_ · 8 May 2023]

My review was written in March 1990 after watching the feature on Interamerican Entertainment video cassette.

This shot-on-video gore flick fills the bill for fans whose taste in horror veers toward the "Blood Feast" genre.

Donald Farmer continues to work in the video medium rather than film, and this Tennessee-lense effort suggests he needs to upgrade his script before making the jump to the big time.

Story is set in the music world, with plenty of nondescript rock performances to pad the abbreviated running time. Satanic singer Carol Carr is fired from her band and goes on a killing rampage. She's actually a witch and her spirit possesses her replacement to the band, lovely Melissa Moore.

Item is poorly photographed in a manner closer to the porno than the horror genre, though content never exceeds a soft X level.

Candidate for worst movie of all time

[pumaye · 1/10 · 11 May 2003]

Well, I've seen a lot of really bad movies in the horror field the last few weeks, but this turkey is really bad!! Apart from the very good looking Melissa Moore (probably the most beautiful face in the Scream Queens roster), this movie about a demon possessing several hard-rock singers, it has nothing to make it watchable. Avoid like the plague

Gives heavy metal horror a bad name.

[BA_Harrison · 2/10 · 11 March 2023]

Donald Farmer, the writer and director of Scream Dream, is so enamoured with the godawful rock theme song for this film that he lets the band Rikk-o-shay perform it in its entirety, and then plays snippets of it throughout the rest of the movie. In addition to the overuse of really bad music, we get weak acting, laughable special effects, and a lousy script with diabolical dialogue.

The film opens promisingly enough, with a woman in bed grabbed by several hands and then being sliced up by a chainsaw that emerges from the mattress. This scene turns out to be part of a music promo for controversial heavy metal singer Michelle Shock (Carol Carr), whose wild shows and satanic lyrics have seen her accused of witchcraft and devil worship. Shock is, in fact, a demonic creature that preys on young male groupies; when one of her backing singers refuses to become another of her victims and kills her with an axe, she proceeds to possess her replacement, Jamie Summers (Melissa Moore), and continues with her unholy activities.

I'm a huge fan of both low-budget horror and heavy metal, but this one stinks on both counts. There are a few unintentional laughs to be had -- the crowds at Shock's shows being described as hardcore heavy metal freaks, when they're nothing of the sort, is hilarious, and a rubber hand-puppet monster is good for some giggles -- but mostly this is just inept and amateurish nonsense that bores more than it entertains.

1.5/10, rounded up to 2 for blonde babe Melissa Moore, who provides the gratuitous nudity.

N. B. The characters of Michelle and Linnea were most likely named after '80s scream queens Michelle Bauer and Linnea Quigley.

Watch it, but keep your thumbs in your pockets!

[bobby-sullivan · 13 February 2004]

Yeah, I saw the movie and believe me it wasn't at the drive-in! The movie starts with a girl getting sawed in two with a chainsaw in her bed. Why was she killed? Your guess is as good as mine, no mention of it was in the rest of the film. The rest of the film portays a female rock singer, Michele Shock, who gets fired due to bad media about the suspicion of her witchcraft. The band gets a new lead singer Jamie Summers (Melissa Moore, former Playboy Playmate, just about the only spark of light in the film), and that really takes Michele over the edge. Understandable, only she ends up dead (why at that point in the movie?), and a little demon is seen running around TRYING to wreak havoc. Jamie stumbles onto Michele's lifeless body and is mesmerized by some evil force that compells her to taste her blood that spreads the demonic contagion. Jamie from then on turns into a pretty ugly demon whenever she's the tiniest bit aggravated and kills whoever pushed her buttons. Film ends with Jamie's boyfriend having the cheesiest nightmare. He woke up screaming, I would have woke up laughing. Film is about ten minutes shorter than the average movie, was produced in Tennessee, good creature effects, but the death scenes could have used a little more work. Scream Dream was also the name of a song that was sung by Michele in the movie, not bad, but definitely not good.

best movie of all time

[ichlugebullets · 16 February 2001]

by far the greatest film of our generation.

rick-o-shea is stunning as well

thanks to the late Mr. Donald Farmer

your legacy continues long after your death

The epitome of bad 80's fashion.

[bfan83 · 11 December 2007]

The movie is the epitome of terrible 80's films. Bad clothes, and bad hair are rampant through this tale of Michelle Shock (Carol Carr), a rock singer who's band is in town to perform their sold-out concert. The locals don't like her, and claim that she is a devil worshipper, and that her music contains subliminal messages. Well, she is a devil worshipper. Well, more like a demon. You see, Michelle has a bad habit of sacrificing her young fans. With all this bad PR, her promoter is forced to fire her, and replace her. She is then accidentally killed by her boyfriend (Nikki Riggins), in self-defense. In comes, Jamie Summers, played by former Playboy Playmate and Scream Queen, Melissa Moore. Michelle's replacement. Through circumstances she becomes possessed by Michelle Shock, and continues the bloody murders. For one of his first features, it does show. However, Donald Farmer did a great job with the cast. Carol Carr was very believable as a devil worshipping, rock star. If you can find this, because it is extremely difficult to track down, give it a chance. You can definitely see Donald's talent sprinkled throughout the film. I look forward to viewing his other features. 6/10.

amateurish

[mattkratz · 11 April 2002]

This movie for the most part seems like a combination of a junior high school play and a home movie. While some of it is scary, for the most part it seems amateurish, especially the acting, editing, and writing. It deals mostly with the lead singer of a rock band who is fired for her dabbling in the occult, which she uses to get her revenge. Not too good.

* 1/2 out of ****