Black Circle Boys (1997)

While watching this movie I couldn't stop thinking about "The Lost Boys". Well both movies have similar plots and even similar characters. The basic plot is even similar; involving a band of boys who followed the wrong way.In "Black Circle Boys" we have boys who worship "The Father" and aspire one day to play on a famous rock club. They will do anything in order to please the father. Everything means murder, robbery, vandalism, etc.This movie is raw and crude at some points but what I dug about it was the symphaty and sadness I felt for the two main members of the band. They are obviously misoriented boys who live on a dysfunctional family and do not know what to do with their lives. On real life, those kind of boys try to find warm and help on Satanic cults.If this movie is based on true events, it's a very well done research and displays perfectly the sadness of teenagers that followed the wrong path just because of trying to find a better life.Education and values are learned in home...

Here's a very disturbing little film. It's about a young guy called Kyle (Scott Bairstow White Fang 2, The Postman, Party of Five (tv)) whose family moves to a new (and boring) little town and he ends up attending a new high school -- trying to fit in, trying to deal with being the new guy and also trying to cope with the death of his best friend. He goes from A student to loser in forty-five minutes, giving up being a top athlete in exchange for the acceptance of a group of heavy metal wannabes and large amounts of drugs - virtually everything from pot to lsd to crack. His life spirals out of control. He ends up joining the BCB who are a small group of these high school losers who practice an invented brand of Satanism in the wooded state park behind the high school. The group's leader Shane (Eric Mabius (Party of Five (tv), Lawn Dogs, Welcome to the Dollhouse) is severely disturbed and influenced by drug dealer/fence Greggo (Donnie Wahlberg yeah, that one -- New Kids on the Block, baby) who is the local Temple of Set devil worshiper who recruits local high school losers and gets them to rob houses for him in exchange for drugs.The plot moves along slowly as Kyle sinks into this realm of madness, but once there, it spins wildly out of control -- there is much violence (including sick satanic rituals where the Shane kills a cat and then they dig up a skeleton) and even murder. The acting is superb, and makes the overall effect of the film that much more disturbing.Where are first it appears to be just another high school nostalgia film (heck, it looked like my high school), it becomes this horror film -- but way too realistic. One keeps asking, "where are the parents, where are the cops" as these lowlifes rampage through the town pillaging and killing and just making all sorts of mayhem.In the end, Kyle must fight the demons which are pulling him under, and the second half of the film chronicles his attempts to overcome the darkness which threatens to consume and destroy him.

I actually quite enjoyed this movie. Great acting by Mabius especially, but also by Subkoff and Bairstow. I think this movie has a lot of potential, the ending was a big letdown, it left many questions unanswered but left room for a sequel, hopefully. Three were quite a few weak parts in the screenplay, but then again some good ones too. Overall it was one of those "good but could use improvement in some areas" type of movies. I'd still rent it, however, for the acting.

Black Circle Boys is kind of the poor man's River's Edge. It started out with a guy in a new school trying to recover from the loss of friend. Along the way he comes in contact with Shane Carver. Leader of the Black Circle Boys. A group of satan worshiping dopers that want to start a band. Well it was kind of funny in a goofy way when it turned serious at the drop of a dime, DEAD serious. Bummer. Eric Mabius (Carver) gives a pretty good performance, but it really doesn't make sense. At the beginning it says it was based on a true story, but I think the writer or director made that up. Kind of creepy flick with some memorable and disturbing sequences. Sorry though guys, its no River's Edge. 6/10