MURDER ROCK

Italy  | 1984  | 93 minutes  | Director: Lucio Fulci 

The world of dance is brutal... the rehearsals are grueling... the competition is fierce. 

At the Arts for Living Center in New York City, the best of the best are dying for a part in a major production, but only a select few will be chosen. Now the contenders are being narrowed down at the hands of a killer who uses a deadly hatpin to pierce women’s hearts through their bare breasts. Ambition and jealousy appear to be motives, which makes everyone a suspect! Also known as The Demon Is Loose and Slashdance, this stylish chiller stars Olga Karlatos (Purple Rain, Zombie), Ray Lovelock (Almost Human, The Cassandra Crossing), and Claudio Cassinelli (Screamers, Hands of Steel), featuring an insane soundtrack from prog rock legend Keith Emerson (The Church, Dario Argento’s Inferno).

Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He made his directorial debut with I Ladri (1959) starring the popular comic Toto. But for one attempted musical, Urlatori alla sbarra (1960), Fulci primarily made comedies during the 1960s and only occasionally dabbled in other genres. His first horror film, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971), has become a cult favorite. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie (1979) and The Beyond (1981), although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy. Fulci is known as the "Godfather of Gore" a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis.