Imagine The Hills Have Eyes, but in a skiing lodge, with a hair metal band.
It stars Easy Action, the first Swedish band to ever get a worldwide record deal, which is a fact on their Wikipedia page that kind of smells fishy. Abba?
The band split up in 1986, a year after this effort, when guitarist and band leader Kee Marcello quit the band to join Europe. That band went on to sell 30 million albums, so he did pretty well. Singer Zinny J. Zan went on to join the band Kingpin, which you would know better by their later name, Shotgun Messiah.
American hair band Poison used the chorus of Easy Action's 1983 single "We Go Rocking" in their song "I Want Action," which led to a lawsuit that the Swedish band won.
The original lineup just played their hit album That Makes One at the Sweden Rock Festival. That makes me happy.
There's a whole bunch of mayhem, hairspray and murder in this movie, including people getting their eyes eaten, axes to the head and impalings. It's pretty grisly, which is great, because it juxtaposes the ridiculous antics of this band and its groupies trying to make a movie in the snow.
The best part of all of this is that Easy Action were all afraid to act, so director Mats Helge Olsson got them drunk. You can tell - they're destroyed for most of the movie. I advise that you're in the same condition when you watch this.
It stars Easy Action, the first Swedish band to ever get a worldwide record deal, which is a fact on their Wikipedia page that kind of smells fishy. Abba?
The band split up in 1986, a year after this effort, when guitarist and band leader Kee Marcello quit the band to join Europe. That band went on to sell 30 million albums, so he did pretty well. Singer Zinny J. Zan went on to join the band Kingpin, which you would know better by their later name, Shotgun Messiah.
American hair band Poison used the chorus of Easy Action's 1983 single "We Go Rocking" in their song "I Want Action," which led to a lawsuit that the Swedish band won.
The original lineup just played their hit album That Makes One at the Sweden Rock Festival. That makes me happy.
There's a whole bunch of mayhem, hairspray and murder in this movie, including people getting their eyes eaten, axes to the head and impalings. It's pretty grisly, which is great, because it juxtaposes the ridiculous antics of this band and its groupies trying to make a movie in the snow.
The best part of all of this is that Easy Action were all afraid to act, so director Mats Helge Olsson got them drunk. You can tell - they're destroyed for most of the movie. I advise that you're in the same condition when you watch this.