Blu-ray Review – Dead Girls

In the 1980s, the wave of "Satanic Panic" was helped along by heavy metal, with bands courting controversy by playing up the presence of evil in their music, giving kids a reason to celebrate and parents a reason to worry. 1990's "Dead Girls" uses this hysteria to inspire a murder mystery, with director Dennis Devine and writer Steve Jarvis creating a study of musicians slowly picked off by a masked killer, dealing with all the interpersonal relationships and acts of alarm required for this kind of film. "Dead Girls" has the setting and the idea, but Devine doesn't have much execution, struggling with his limited budget to cook up some real suspense during the unusually long run time (106 minutes), visibly struggling to make anything in this draggy endeavor seem exciting. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com