Detroit Rock City: after their concert tickets are destroyed by an uptight mom, four KISS obsessed friends head to the Motor Town. Trip, Lex, Jam, & Hawk's combined desperation eventually pays off once they take their seats to see the hottest band in the world!
This movie borrows from a lot more of the horror genre and other genres (than the first one) and is fun because of that. It is neat to try and place each movie they used and even be reminded of others. That being said it still is overall just an okay movie that brings a couple laughs.
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Trigger Warning N-word, Urination, Projectile Vomit, Sexual Assault
We open with a parody on The Exorcist, the party scene where Reagan interrupts and pees on the floor, the priest comes, tries to bless the house but is covered in flies like in The Amityville Horror. Blah, blah, blah, we cut to a year later and it is Cindy and Shorty, two of the survivors from the first movie (because I guess Shorty somehow survived the first movie?), sitting and talking about college. Ray is also there, having survived and not gone to jail, I guess? Anyway all the kids who have had a traumatic experience in the past are going to be in a special class with Tim Curry as the professor and little do they know they are going to see ghosts! Boo! The professor's plan along with his scientist assistant, Dwight, is to take the kids to a haunted mansion. This is a parody of both The Haunting (the location and group) and Rocky Horror Picture Show (Hanson, the family servant) because, oh, yeah, when we get to the mansion there is a family servant. And he has one tiny little hand. So, I think this is also a play on Young Frankenstein but that might just be me.
In the house we also have a clown just like in Poltergeist (only this clown is a perp of SA and a victim of it) and a big grabbing plant like in that same movie (or Little Shop of Horrors, pick your prickly poison). The professor is tricked by the ghost and is lured deep into the basement and then to his demise! The rest of the gang splits up because they are so afraid (after Dwight gives them ghost seeing goggles). Cindy gets chased by a skeleton but Brenda stops her and basically tells her not to be afraid of a Bag of Bones and then Brenda plucks off the skeleton's skull (ha). The girls proceed to mix up the skeleton's bones making it into a funny looking guy who scampered off in the end (defeated).
Dwight the scientist has an epic wheelchair race with the ghost, Kane. While Dwight appears to win the race/battle he is still thrown out the window and refuses to grab onto the house servant's little hand. It also appears that the house servant is gotten by the ghost next but we cut quickly back to the freezer friends. Cindy and Buddy are locked in a freezer and it takes Cindy's quick thinking and know-how to use the materials provided to make a miniature bulldozer so she could break down the door. Smooth thinking there, Cind. (This is also a tiny bit reminiscent of The Shining) At this point Hanson is totally off his rocker and has chopped off the top of Shorty's head like in Hannibal. Next all three (3) girls get together and we have a Charlie's Angels action scene! A little out of character for the genre but still funny and reminds me of other action horrors like The Crow and Malignant.
Hanson totally wigs out and his face sort of begins to explode with a blue light. Next the group tricks the big bad ghostie boy, Kane, onto a platform that sends him away somehow. Don’t ask how, it just works! Ghost science! Two (2) months later, Cindy is out with Buddy when suddenly, Buddy disappears and it is just her and then Hanson is there and he starts to laugh and say it will just be the two (2) of them. Cindy starts to scream, “No!” While Hanson is screaming, “Yes!” And then Hanson gets hit by Shorty driving his car. All's well that ends well!
