I’ve been listening to Ladyhawke a lot lately. She did a fantastic job capturing that elusive “feel” that the 80′s had. So much so that her album seems more like a great soundtrack than a plain old album. One night while driving home from my weekly poker game (while blasting the album with the windows down) I started to really wonder “What would a movie with this soundtrack look like?” So in my best attempt to retain that fantastic spirit of the 80′s, when even the lousy movies were awesome, here is the synopsis I came up with for “Ladyhawke & The Living Dead.”

Ladyhawke & The Living Dead

Samantha Mills was your normal small town teenage girl with big dreams. She went to Hollywood hoping to become a star and got more than she bargained for. Backstage at a Curries concert she met her rock idol, Raz, who took a liking to her. So much so he promised to make her into what he was. Problem was, Raz wasn’t only a god on guitar, Raz was also a vampire. Now, a screaming banshee on the axe in her own right, Samantha has returned with her own band “Ladyhawke & The Living Dead” to the town she grew up in to play a benefit concert for the town church where her brother pastors, leaving a trail of woozy groupies in her wake.

Rumor has it a scout for Island Records will be in the crowd. But as the curtain rises, so does the body count. Fans start turning up dead. Even worse, Sam is attacked by a couple of vampires and barely escapes. As the band takes the stage to play the second half of their set, Sam drinks enough from her brother to allow her to see what he sees and communicate telepathically with him, and then sends her brother to unravel the mystery of the murders and her attackers.

The story comes to a head as the scout for Island turns out to be the vampire thats been killing everyone and turning some into vampire slaves to hunt Sam. She too had been turned by Raz before he shunned her for his new turnee. (Samantha) The scout, Melanie Beckheart, had learned enough to know that the turnee had something to do with “Ladyhawke & The Living Dead” so she had begun following behind their tour, trying to learn more. But her patience had run out, so she had chosen this night to end it by killing the band. But when the attack on Samantha by some of her turned zombies failed, she had been forced to feed & to try and form another plan.

Sam’s brother, Isaac, discovers this independently and finds Melanie on the catwalk scaffolding above the band. Seeking to confront her, she grabs him by the throat and hoists him into the air. Sam, playing their last song, sees this, smashes her guitar, and then runs to the edge of the stage, severing the rope to the curtain. The curtain falls, jerking Sam upward into the air. Holding the splintered neck of her guitar, Sam impales Melanie as the curtain hits the stage, stopping her ascent. In the end, Sam saves her brother, the concert pays for the new church, and a scout from Atlantic no one knew was in the crowd signs the band. As the Atlantic rep closes the door to the band’s dressing room he smiles, showing off a gleaming sharpened incisor.