The movie starts with a home video type of shot of three kids partying on top of a roof. They're drinking and shouting how they're all American. blah blah blah, one of the kids fall off the roof, blah blah.

Then the movie actually starts with one of the kids from the roof scene (not the dead one) moving into a new house. He also has a new "look" to him, which I guess means you're supposed to get the impression he's bitter.

So the kid's bitter, and his parents seem to hate him for no good reason. He goes to school the next day, where he smokes cigarettes. He doesn't smoke cigarettes like a normal person, though. He lights one up, (he seemed to be smoking Marlboro Light 100s -- guys don't smoke these cigarettes) takes two drags, puts it out, and lights another one up.

He meets some hippie girl who points him out to the "evil" heavy metal kids. She also points out that they call themselves the "Black Circle Boys," and they're into the occult, and the leader is some bad boy who's been to jail.

This is pretty much the point where the movie turns from entertaining to agonizing. A bunch of dumb stuff happens, and ths kid ends up befriending the Black Circle Boys. They invite him to one of their Black Circle Boy parties.

Almost IMMEDIATELY, they accept this kid into the black circle boys, although the leader has only known the kid for like a day.

The following scenes consist of drug use, supposed satan worship, and dumb cliches that may have existed in the 80s, but this movie was made in 1998.

As you can probably guess, the movie builds up to the point where the leader and our main character have a fallout, and they battle it out for the rest of the movie.

It was very disappointing. I wasn't expecting the next "Star Wars" or anything. I WAS expecting a bad movie, but an ENTERTAINING bad movie.

Another stupidity: the box says something about "gothic rock." Goth kids don't hang out with dirty heavy metal kids (i.e., most of the characters in this movie).

Basically this movie is a cross between "Foxfire" and "The Craft" but with guys, and somehow this movie managed to be worse than either. It was as if someone lived in a cave all his life somewhere in Japan, then one day read an article about Americans and heavy metal music and got the OK to make a movie about what he read about.

Rating: half a turkey. (If you can watch this for free, the first ten minutes are entertaining, and then you could fast forward to all the REALLY dumb parts.)