Terrorists, political conspiracy, drugs and bad music. Just another night at the Heartbreak hotel.
Director: Jim Wolpaw
Stars: Stanley Matis, Margo Dionne, Allen Oliver.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099295/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
5 songs in the Soundtracks; seems like more were performed, but maybe some were repeated.
None of the 1st 3 credited people have any other IMDb credits. So it's not just that I don't recognize them, or anyone onscreen, but this looks like a one-off for them.
This is very low budget, starting with the script. A presidential candidate wants to kill his own son who runs the rock club Heartbreak Hotel. So he hires some terrorists to plant a bomb in a modified beer keg with 100 lbs of plastique due to explode at 1am. They call in the bomb scare and demand a random to disarm it. The manager/son shrugs it off, hanging up on multiple call attempts. Apparently he's had a lot of cherry bombs in the toilet lately. At one point he says the terrorist will have to come to the club to talk with him, and he does. What? Yeah, well the plan is really to blow the place up, so it doesn't matter if the terrorist is seen by future dead people. The politician just wanted some publicity out of it to help his campaign.
Meanwhile, the mayor wants to shut down the club because he wants the property sold to developers for a shopping mall. So he had hired a biker gang to go break things up, and numbed the police to any calls about trouble at the club tonight. So the terrorist can't get the cops to take this seriously, nor the FBI (the operator wants the terrorist's phone number; "we don't usually deal directly with the criminals; first we hear from the victims.") But a tv reporter outside the club is interviewing the bikers and hears rumors about the bomb.
No hero comes to the rescue; the bomb goes off while onscreen we see pliers snipping a wire. Lots of dead people and news headlines. The good news: the politician gets locked up in a mental hospital for his ravings after the event.
There's more nonsense to fill the time, but nothing worth seeing or writing about.
Avoid.
Y'know, when Amazon (or any streaming service) says they have X thousands of titles to view, they should not be able to include this in the tally.
Rated 5.6 by 109 IMDb users.
indie, dir. Wolpaw; 5
