Lovedolls Superstar is a 1986 low budget underground film

Underground film

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, shot on super-8 film.

It is the direct sequel to 1984's Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (film)

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is a 1984 low budget underground film, shot on super-8 film by David Markey, about a rock band of teenage runaways and their misadventures. The film was released on DVD in 2003...

. It was made on a budget of approximately $10,000. The film was reissued on DVD in 2006 as "Lovedolls Superstar Fully Realized" (a certified directors cut).

It was described (in 1991) as "one of the greatest music industry movies of the last decade".

Plot

The Lovedolls return from their untimely demise in this sequel to the Super-8 trash classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (film)

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is a 1984 low budget underground film, shot on super-8 film by David Markey, about a rock band of teenage runaways and their misadventures. The film was released on DVD in 2003...

(1984). Patch Kelley (Janet Housden) becomes Patch Christ, the leader of an acid-damaged religious cult who rescues has been Kitty Karryall (Jennifer Schwartz) from a boozy, wasted life. Once reunited, they recruit Sunset Boulevard hooker Alexandria "Cheetah" Axethrasher (Kim Pilkington) to replace the recently murdered Bunny Tremelo (Hilary Rubens). Rainbow Tramaine (Steve McDonald

Steven Shane McDonald

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), from the Freedom School in New Mexico

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 ventures to Hollywood to discover his twin brother Johnny has committed suicide after taking The Lovedolls to the top, as their manager.

The She Devils leader Tanya Hearst's mother, Patricia Ann Cloverfield (Tracy Lea) is back in town to even the score. Meanwhile obsessed fanatic Carl Celery (Jeff McDonald

Jeff McDonald

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) lives in his own world of Lovedoll worship, only to carry out an assassination of Brews Springstien (Jordan Schwartz). With special guest appearances by Vicki Peterson

Vicki Peterson

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 (Bangles), Jello Biafra

Jello Biafra

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 (Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys

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) & Sky Saxon

Sky Saxon

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 (The Seeds

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).

Cast

• Jennifer Schwartz
• Steven McDonald
  Steven McDonald
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• Janet Housden
• Kim Pilkington
• Jeff McDonald
  Jeff McDonald
  Jeff McDonald is a rock and roll singer and guitarist who co-founded the alternative rock, power pop band Redd Kross with his younger brother Steven Shane McDonald and remains in the band. In the early 2000s he played in Ze Malibu Kids, with his wife, Charlotte Caffey, of The Go-Go's, his brother,...
  
  
• Tracy Lea
• Michael F. Glass

Featuring

• Vicki Peterson
  Vicki Peterson
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• Sky Saxon
  Sky Saxon
  Sky "Sunlight" Saxon was an American rock and roll musician who was best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys...
  
  

Soundtrack

An accompanying soundtrack was released on SST Records

SST Records

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, with music by Redd Kross

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, Love Dolls (the girls in the movie singing and backed by Redd Kross),
Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

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, Meat Puppets

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, Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk music scene....

, Gone

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,
Black Flag

Black Flag (band)

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, Annette, Painted Willie

Painted Willie

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, Lawndale

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, and Anarchy 6.

DVD release

In 2006, the film was released in extended DVD format as "Lovedolls Superstar Fully Realized".

External links

• We Got Power Films Soundtrack available for download