Saturday, March 19, 2011
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Stunt Rock (1980 ; 86 Brain Eaters) : This film was made in 1978, written and directed by Brian Trenchard Smith. The movie's top-billed lead actor-stuntman Grant Page played himself and did his own stunts. This film was made to launch the actor-stuntman on the international film market, another movie made before this one was suppose to do the same but failed. They features footage from a number of other movies that Grant as appeared in (Death Cheaters- 1976, Mad Dog Morgan- 1976) and Dragon Flies- 1975). Brian signed the rock group Sorcery after seeing a video-cassette of a performance of the troupe from a 1977 Los Angeles night-club. Sorcery was not the first choice for the rock band, the original choice of band was the rock group Foreigner and Van Halen was also offered to the production at one point. The seven members of the band Sorcery who perform on stage were Paul Haynes as the King of the Wizards, Curtis Hyde as the Prince of Darkness, the Lead Singer Greg Magie, Lead Guitarist Smokey Huff, Bass Guitarist Richie King, Keyboardist Doug Loch and Drummer Perry Morris. Sorcery went on to do more records after this film and other CD's, T.V.appearances, the Dick Clark show and other movies. This film also stars Dutch actress Monique van de Ven (her first Hollywood film) and Margaret Gerard who would later be married to the director . This film is considered an Ozploitation picture (an Australian exploitation movie) but was filmed mostly in California.
Australian stuntman Grant Page accepts a job on an American television series and travels to Los Angeles, where he reunites with old friend and fellow daredevil Curtis Hyde. Hyde performs with a heavy metal band called Sorcery, each gig playing the part of a demon locked in cosmic combat with Merlin the Magician while the band plays out a theatrical but muscular hard rock. Page's first stunt for the cameras goes awry and he is hospitalized, but defies his doctors by escaping out a fifth story window to get back to the set. Such reckless behavior attracts the attention of a newspaper reporter (played by Margaret Gerard) who is writing an article on people obsessed with their careers, as well as a TV star (played by Monique van de Ven) who finds herself drawn to the stuntman's professional fearlessness.
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