Review by youngcollind

This isn't a paid promotion, I swear, I just wanted to show some love for the Shudder platform. Sure a lot of their content is crap and they don't have the budget for originals of say Netflix, but there's a real human touch to the curation. It's like being friends with a horror nerd who routinely comes by with a sack full of DVDs that you otherwise wouldn't have known about. Like how just the other day, out of nowhere, they just dropped five obscure rock 'n roll themed 80s b-movies. How did you even know I wanted five obscure rock 'n roll themed 80s b-movies? Well I did, and I thank you for your service.

Overall, Hard Rock Nightmare is exactly the kind of trash you'd expect, corny in all the right ways. Every time a character opens their mouth the bad dialogue and acting is worthy of a good chuckle. The effects are less scary than the Thriller video, with dollar store props throughout. I suppose the terrible wolf costume can be forgiven though because (SPOILER ALERT: but do you care, really?) in the end, they hilariously go the Scooby-Doo route and it turns out it was old man Gary all along, bahaha! Grab a bud and a brew and just let the cheese waft over you.