Detroit Rock City is a 1999 cult film about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978. It takes its title from the Kiss song of the same name. The movie bombed at the box office, grossing fewer than five million dollars domestically, and it disappeared from theaters approximately a month and a half after its release. It has since become a cult classic for Kiss fans, rock music fans and metalheads in general...
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Detroit Rock City is a 1999 cult film about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978. It takes its title from the Kiss song of the same name. The movie bombed at the box office, grossing fewer than five million dollars domestically, and it disappeared from theaters approximately a month and a half after its release. It has since become a cult classic for Kiss fans, rock music fans and metalheads in general. The movie was originally to be called The Kiss Movie. It has been often compared to the 1993 film Dazed and Confused and the 1979 film Rock 'n' Roll High School.
The film was shot at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and other Ontario locations.
The movie starts in Cleveland, Ohio 1978 Mrs. Bruce (Lin Shaye) is relaxing at home when she plays KISS's Love Gun record thinking it's a Carpenters album. This greatly disturbs Mrs. Bruce, who believes that KISS is "the Devil's Music."
Three blocks away in a basement,...
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