Hell's Bells: The Dangers of Rock 'N' Roll (1989) Online

This is proof at how paranoid people got in the 80's, during the rise of the PMRC and the height of the 'Satanic Panic'.

The film contains strange and irrational logic (i.e. Rock is the sole reason for a 10,000% climb in violent crime from the past thirty years, which was most of the rock era.). There are also some rather bizarre experiments (amplified rock can apparently hard boil an egg), unproven claims (Jim Morrison of the Doors killing a man, for example), and outright fallacies (according to this, Madonna was an ex-porn star).

While I have no toil against films because that could be long ('2001: A Space Odyssey' clocks in at over 2 and one third hours), this film is 3 hours of what is essentially preaching coming from some guy with a rather stupid looking mullet. It is needlessly long, considering the subject matter.

Finally, he just misses the point of why these rockers act the way they do; it isn't some ritual they pull the audience into, but rather just showing off in order to shock people and get attention. I, as a rocker, can fully understand that. He gives rockers why more credit for their intelligence than they actually deserve. Especially AC/DC.

The only redeeming quality of this movie is that it contains some fairly high quality footage of AC/DC, Dio, and the Rolling Stones. If you ignore some of the more preachy and/or anti-rock speeches, you could possibly enjoy the music if you like rock.

I am not anti-religious (and am, in fact, a Christian). It's just I don't feel that rock is inherently anti-Christian. The man here, though, clearly doesn't. And does a poor job of trying to convince us to agree with him.

This was meant to illustrate the dangers of Rock'n'Roll by showing it's satanic influences. As the makers would have it, the entire music industry is nothing more than Satan's representative on Earth. This documentary clearly illustrates how artists, engineers, managers, arrangers and everyone else within the industry collaborates to get Satan's message across. What this is however is as brilliant a self parody of bible thumping, everything fun is evil, listen to me or you'll go to hell, repent now while there's still time as the makers of Airplane! ever could have come up with. As an added bonus it features plenty of snippets from AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac and a whole host of heavy metal artists and some others you would never expect to see in this film. By method of deciphering garbled "messages from the devil" of records played backwards and boiling an egg in front of speakers it "scientifically proves" Rock music is bad for your moral fiber and will rot your brain. Best enjoyed with a large pop corn and a huge pinch of salt and the knowledge that the makers of this program where deadly serious when they made this! This makes the flat earth theory look progressive. And makes it all the more entertaining.

The best and most thorough Rock Music Expose until Hells Bells II was released in 2001. Eric Holmberg gives thorough and compelling evidence that much of secular music, including Rock, Rap, Country, Alternative, Grunge and Metal line up perfectly with the Satanic Bible written by Anotn Lavey. The artists and their fans might try to dismiss, and some might wish to ignore it, but the evidence is presented in a clear, cogent and irrefutable manner. Simply compare what Lavey wrote with much of what this video shows Rock music to convey, and one is left with the inescapable conclusion that Rock Music is Satanic. I highly recommend this video for anyone that grew up in the 80's and its sequel to anyone that enjoys music.