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DO OR DIE FOR "LOVE MEETS MURDER"
Birmingham's hottest rock band is going through a "transitional phase" with a new guitarist. With their last album being a flop, the record company is reluctant to spend any money on them. They compromise by allowing them to record a low budget video in an old studio, one that is a bit primitive with bars on the windows and only one exit. Nigel (Adam Fray) the director brings in girls who add to the conflict.

The idea is to create or recreate the band's "primal energy." From the start you know something else is in the works for the band from the coded and secretive talks that the director and their manager (Carl Coleman) hold. As you know from the description, a hooded slasher enters the locked studio with no cell reception.

Fairly good integration of sex, slashing, and rock and roll...although we have seen better. Laurence Saunders is no Gene Simmons, still a decent film for those who love rock and roll slashers. Better than "Slumber Party Massacre 2", not as...

It IS just that...OK
It was watchable. Nothing great. They could've put a tad bit more work and feel into this flix. Too bad.

Would've been better without the CGI gore
This shot on digital video British slasher film is overlong and takes too long to get moving. I was hoping for a really fast paced slasher flick, but this film is too slow getting started. However, once the body count starts, it does eventually deliver the exploitation. I don't mind a slow starting film, as long as there's good scenery or atmosphere; this film has none of these, and this makes it boring at times. It does deliver the gore, although most of it is CGI, and there's a very bloody scene where a nude woman is stabbed in the crotch. I've read that this scene was cut from the British release of the film, but it's intact on this DVD. Gore fans shouldn't be disappointed here because there's no lack of gore or violence, and there's also a decent amount of nudity; even though the nudity isn't really explicit which is disappointing because this type of film would've been better with more explicit nude scenes. What's also disappointing is the unnecessary filler that extends...

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