Black Circle Boys

this movie wasnt too bad for a straight to vid release. the cast is flawed,(try not to laugh at donnie walberghs attempt to be scary) but eric mabius is decent in his role as the leader of the boys. the plot centers around a kid named kyle who comes to a new school, makes friends with the headbangers, listens to crappy music, does drugs, and ends up in a satanic cult. will he see the light? will he escape the cult? will he quit drugs? will anyone care? the movie gives off a poser-ish vibe thanks to the terrible soundtrack, and the band the kids go to see is a nine inch nails rip off. i thought these kids were headbanger satanists. they should have been seeing deicide in concert, but by that point in the movie, you wont care much. dont get me wrong, its not unwatchable, just dont pay over a dollar to rent it.

Here's a very disturbing little film. It's about a young guy called Kyle (Scott Bairstow White Fang 2, The Postman, Party of Five (tv)) whose family moves to a new (and boring) little town and he ends up attending a new high school -- trying to fit in, trying to deal with being the new guy and also trying to cope with the death of his best friend. He goes from A student to loser in forty-five minutes, giving up being a top athlete in exchange for the acceptance of a group of heavy metal wannabes and large amounts of drugs - virtually everything from pot to lsd to crack. His life spirals out of control. He ends up joining the BCB who are a small group of these high school losers who practice an invented brand of Satanism in the wooded state park behind the high school. The group's leader Shane (Eric Mabius (Party of Five (tv), Lawn Dogs, Welcome to the Dollhouse) is severely disturbed and influenced by drug dealer/fence Greggo (Donnie Wahlberg yeah, that one -- New Kids on the Block, baby) who is the local Temple of Set devil worshiper who recruits local high school losers and gets them to rob houses for him in exchange for drugs.

The plot moves along slowly as Kyle sinks into this realm of madness, but once there, it spins wildly out of control -- there is much violence (including sick satanic rituals where the Shane kills a cat and then they dig up a skeleton) and even murder. The acting is superb, and makes the overall effect of the film that much more disturbing.

Where are first it appears to be just another high school nostalgia film (heck, it looked like my high school), it becomes this horror film -- but way too realistic. One keeps asking, "where are the parents, where are the cops" as these lowlifes rampage through the town pillaging and killing and just making all sorts of mayhem.

In the end, Kyle must fight the demons which are pulling him under, and the second half of the film chronicles his attempts to overcome the darkness which threatens to consume and destroy him.

Although this film was nothing terribly outstanding it was a bit better than the usual teen slasher flick. Scott Bairstow is having a hard time dealing with the death of a younger brother and he and his parents moved to another town where he can finish up high school anonymously so to speak. This one time jock falls in with a crowd of Goths who are into Satan worship and are led by a charismatic Artful Dodger type played by Eric Mabius. The gang also has a Fagin in former New Kid on the Block and future detective Danny Reagan Donnie Wahlberg. He supplies them recreational pharmaceuticals, they break into houses and steal for him.

It takes a while to get his eyes wide open, but eventually Bairstow figures out that these Black Circle Boys are a truly evil bunch and that Mabius is a Charles Manson in training.

Lots of praise has been given to those already mentioned. But for me I liked Chad Lindberg who was rather touching as wannabe who wants so much to be accepted by Mabius that he goes out on his own and screws up royally. He pays a very heavy price.

Definitely Black Circle Boys is a bit better than most cinema of this type.

I've been fascinated with the Ricky Kasso story ever since I read about it. I had no idea that this movie was based on the case. The movie wasn't half bad though, the color wasn't really good to be perfect honest. The acting, although done well, were a little too melodramatic. The actors did a good job, Eric Mabius does a good job as the evil Shane. It's not really that effective and it's not really that scary if you ask me. But, just to be nice, I'm going to be fair with the filmmakers, they've done the best they can to make the movie. But at least they were lucky enough to get their movie out there to be seen. I just wish they would get RICKY 6 out soon.

I usually do not flip through movies I have never heard of and stop and watch them, but I turned Black Circle Boys on and for some reason i couldn't turn it off. It was a movie that just kept my attention. An excellent cast made this movie even more the better. I am so amazed by this movie that I want to go out and buy it.