Stunt Rock
1978 Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
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The Ultimate Rush.
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcer. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.
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Part documentary, part concert film, part action movie (sort of), Stunt Rock presents stunts and rock in their most undiluted form. Grant Page will be your new idol and Sorcery will be your new favorite band. Everything in this movie screams awesome, but don't expect any story. What exists is there simply to give Page a chance to say "I remember that..." before showing another montage of awesome stunts. The stunts are only topped by the performances of Sorcery, with The King Of Wizards fighting The Prince Of Darkness with illusions and magic while guitar solos wail. Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds. Just watch this movie.
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I want to have dinner with Grant Page and Monique van de Ven.
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Half video resume for Australian stunt man Grant Page, half concert documentary for Sorcery (aka THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME). STUNT ROCK isn't much of a "movie" but more like an incredible spectacle of wizard rocking and amazing stunt work. Disregarded at its time of release, STUNT ROCK is now gaining a steady following of fans and deservedly so.
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It's Stunts...it's Rock...it's Stunt Rock! Must've sounded like terrific high-concept at the pitch meeting, but the celluloid reality turned out to be a hot mess. What little plot there is revolves around an Australian stuntman who goes to Hollywood and hooks up with a ridiculous hard-rock concept band called Sorcery, who perform sub-Siegfried and Roy onstage magic tricks with lots of pyrotechnics. Think Crocodile Dundee meets Spinal Tap and David Hemmings, in a flaming car going off a cliff.
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Lead actor Grant Page lived a career on a highwire balancing acting with stunt co-ordination in the late 1970s boom period of Australian exploitation. His best work combining both fields was for Aussie director Brian Trenchard-Smith in 3 features – The Man from Hong Kong, Deathcheaters and Stunt Rock. It was in this last film that his abilities as a likeable action hero who could do his own stunts was put forward amidst a barrage of 1970s heavy metal by band Sorcery and impressive editing. For Stunt Rock, Page and Trenchard-Smith let loose on Los Angeles where Page is trailed by a sinister, sexy seductress (former Paul Verhoeven starlet Monique Van De Ven) and a cult band. It’s unabashed Aussie…
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A perfect marriage of stunt and rock. Well, an OK marriage of stunt and rock.
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It's total nonsense, with the thinnest plot imaginable-- a stuntman comes to LA to work on a TV show, a girl writes a magazine article about him, and they hang out with geeky band called Sorcery that does magic on stage. It's all just an excuse for ridiculous stunts and music that I swear Spinal Tap had to have been inspired by. In no way can I objectively say this movie is good on any level. But it is scrappy and silly enough to make you keep watching until the end.
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I want to have dinner with Grant Page and Monique van de Ven.
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It's Stunts...it's Rock...it's Stunt Rock! Must've sounded like terrific high-concept at the pitch meeting, but the celluloid reality turned out to be a hot mess. What little plot there is revolves around an Australian stuntman who goes to Hollywood and hooks up with a ridiculous hard-rock concept band called Sorcery, who perform sub-Siegfried and Roy onstage magic tricks with lots of pyrotechnics. Think Crocodile Dundee meets Spinal Tap and David Hemmings, in a flaming car going off a cliff.
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This quickly filmed movie should definitely not be watched for its cogent plot or its quality acting, as it has neither. Rather, it should be watched if you love practical stunts as stuntman Grant Page does a whole lot of crazy things, and/or if you enjoy theatrical rock bands; real life band Sorcery definitely were theatrical... their act incorporated magic tricks and fire as Merlin did battle with a demon during the playing of their songs! What a cult classic that at least gives its due to stuntmen, a field that most people don't even think about. What a fine slice of Ozploitation.
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seriously. one of the weirdest movies i've ever seen. it should be a total mess but somehow it's all still a blast.
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It could've been an adequate, well-deserved salute to Aussie stuntmen if Trenchard-Smith actually got a decent rock band (and not the Spinal Tap doppelgangers he got) to wrap this whole movie around. Grant Page is a gangsta, though.
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Trenchard-Smith delivers a film that somehow combines a documentary, rockumentary, and numerous stunts. Special mention also goes to the unique use of multiple split screens.
There is heavy metal mixed with wizards, the devil and magic that somehow mixes in with the central story of a stuntman. Although a great concept the result are dependent on how enjoyable the music and stunts are found. The stunts are quite amazing, particularly the one at the finale if indeed it is real. However the music performances seem to fail to progress and outstay their welcome.
The Reverence: Hanging from a rope with one arm while courting beats out the constant exposed chest of the central stuntman and a masked musician.
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Half video resume for Australian stunt man Grant Page, half concert documentary for Sorcery (aka THE GREATEST ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME). STUNT ROCK isn't much of a "movie" but more like an incredible spectacle of wizard rocking and amazing stunt work. Disregarded at its time of release, STUNT ROCK is now gaining a steady following of fans and deservedly so.
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Part documentary, part concert film, part action movie (sort of), Stunt Rock presents stunts and rock in their most undiluted form. Grant Page will be your new idol and Sorcery will be your new favorite band. Everything in this movie screams awesome, but don't expect any story. What exists is there simply to give Page a chance to say "I remember that..." before showing another montage of awesome stunts. The stunts are only topped by the performances of Sorcery, with The King Of Wizards fighting The Prince Of Darkness with illusions and magic while guitar solos wail. Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds. Just watch this movie.