Well, it's not Halloween without a bit of trick or treating, isn't it? Pop Screen's spooky month kicks off with an '80s teen horror that also allows us to remember one of the greats we lost this year - Ozzy Osbourne, whose short but hilarious cameo as an anti-rock preacher in Charles Martin Smith's movie allows the Black Sabbath frontman a chance to kick back at a moral panic he was then very much in the crosshairs of.

Join Aidan and Graham as they remember Ozzy's understandably baffled appearance on Geraldo Rivera's Satanism special, talk about the film's use of sitcom, teen movie and homoerotic tropes, and ponder who's going to be the cuddly dad of metal now Ozzy is gone. We also ponder how influential this film might have been on a certain Netflix series, and grudgingly talk about Gene Simmons's cameo towards the start of the film.

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