The first time I saw this was when it first was on tv as a kid. My mom forbade me to see it, but when she left for bible study, my dad woke me up to watch it. I've been a card carrying member of the KISS Army every since.
sharei was either 3 or 4 and i lived with my dad and he worshipped KISS. As a kid this was the only movie i could watch and I grew up becoming an ace frehley cheerleader lmao
"Look that rabbits got a vicious streak a mile wide! Its a killer!"-Monty Python & the Holy Grail
I saw this when I was 8. Every kid in my school was a KISS huge & the girl who was watching me & my brother that night was one too. During the show she kept calling her friends that were watching it & they were going on about how cool it was. I saw it again about a decade ago & had a good chuckle.
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My sister was a KISS fan, so I stayed up late to watch the movie with her. I didn't care much for the band, but as a 7 year old kid, I got a trip out of the movie. The biggest thing was Ace. He cracked me up and won me over. I ended up going out and buying the "Destroyer" and "KISS ALIVE" album and have been a fan ever since.
shareHow could anyone under 10 in the early 70s NOT have seen this flick, lol!!?
I did, as did just about everyone else in elementary school! Painful to watch now b/c its that bad.
Of course, what the hell did I care then? I was 7, I didn't need an Oscar winning screenplay! :)
I was 15 when I saw this (1979)... just after KISS hit the disco world with "I was made for lovin' you"...
In this movie, I learned they were actually a Rock and Roll band, and NOT a Village People counter-attacking disco group.
After this experience, I started my KISS album collection, I learned to play guitar, I got more involved with Rock, I made new friends... etc. etc. etc.
I suddenly stopped buying KISS albums after 1985's "Asylum"... they became too crappy despite the excellent musician they hired by then.
However, it was awesome to see them together again & Unplugged on MTV, but the magic was gone.
By the way, I do remember I was disappointed by the movie... I wish they did something more like Pink Floyd's The Wall instead.
I wish it was more like A Hard Day's Night meets Star Wars!
I actually missed the original broadcast when I was 6 because my mom always made us go to bed at like 7:30 PM! But we did have a magazine about the film with interviews, etc., which we ordered from a pack of KISS cards (remember those)?
But I didn't actually see it until about 10 years ago. I was friends with a guy at my school who was really into KISS and I was at his house checking out his collection of memorabilia. I saw the tape and I was like, "Please can we watch this?" He just rolled his eyes, like, "Yeah, if you must."
After about 10 minutes I realized how bad it sucked, so we took it out and watched the Tomorrow interview with Tom Snyder from 1979, which was MUCH better!
I don't remember the details of when I saw it for the first time but I remember seeing it very young and found the movie creepy...
Just got my hand on a copy lately and watching it brought some nice "cheesy" memories.
"Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? -Davy Jones"
Yes, I remember quite well!! I was only 6 years old, but already a Kiss fan (probably because of my older brother). Seems that this movie along with other mass merchandise, in fact, solidified Kiss' kiddie audience, which at the time was anathema to their hardcore fans. Yet, in retrospect, the "kiddies" of the 70's are the adult fanatics of today. Go figure.
My parents were out that night and we had a babysitter. We talked her into letting us stay up late to watch the entire movie. At the time, I thought it was great. I remember acting out the fight scenes (while singing "Rock and Roll All Nite") with my brother before going to bed. I seem to remember him picking Ace. I must've been Gene, but don't recall. I also remember asking kids at school the next day if they had seen it.
But yes, I do realize today that this film is a horrendous piece of garbage, which is oddly what still makes it fun!
I've always loved Kiss since I was 1 year old. I'm now 15. When I was 4 or 5 my cousin wanted to see a movie and he searched through my father's VHS tapes and found it and said that we had to see it. He WAS a Kiss fan back then too. But now he just listens to them once a week or something. Well however, his favorite was Ace Frehley and mine has always been Gene Simmons. I have to admit I was a little fond of Eric Carr too. He was awesome! My dad has been a Kiss fan since he was 10 years old. His first favorite was Paul Stanley but the 2 last years he has become a really hardcore Gene Simmons fan!
shareI was anywhere from 4 to 7 years old in the mid 80's and I loved this movie when i first saw. I would always hope that it would come on again and again. I tried explaining to several people that this movie existed, but no one remembers it. Now I have the proof, HA HA HA! Although i was very young when i saw this and I liked it, I also remember it being a pretty chessy and terrible movie. I'll watch anything though and just rate it by what level the movie exists on.
shareYeah I just got this movie off of ebay and I havent seen it since I was like 6. The only thing I ever remembered was the first pool scene, wow what a cheesy yet insanely cool movie.
shareAh, the 'cheese' that pleases.
My cousin and I were 8 years old, watching it in his living room as our parents played cards in the kitchen. We thought we were being sneaky, watching this dangerous, tough, cool movie. Oh, to have the low standards and easy-to-please mentality today when watching a movie that we did before we were ten...
I haven't seen it since then, but I have a pretty good memory of it. I remember the cell they were stuck in with the electrified forcefield was awesome to my 8-year-old special effects mind! I couldn't figure out why their fight choreography consisted mostly of kicking each other in the boots, though...
I should probably see it again for a good chuckle, nearly 30 years later.
I remember quite well. I actually didn't get into Kiss until around '84 or '85. I was about 9 then and missed the whole makeup era. It was impossible to see the videos or concert footage of them in makeup so all I ever got to see were photos in magazines. I remember reading about it in a magazine and wishing I could see it, one day I was flipping the channels when I saw the R&R over album cover twirling out of the screen. I knew this was the movie so I hurried up and threw a tape in to record it. I couldn't believe it, I remember jumping up and down so estatic that I was actually watching the movie. I didn't even realize how awful it was. I'd later start collecting tapes of the concerts from the 70's and became a HUGE Kiss fan. Although my interest in them over the years has faded (largely due to their oversaturated merchandising without releasing anything of value ie a GOOD new album) I still get a thrill watching the old footage though and this movie still has a special place in my heart, no matter how campy it is.
shareI was 17 when I first saw it about 10 minutes ago. I'm really not a KISS fan, but I had to see just how bad it was. Well, it was no Plan 9 or Star Wars Holiday Special, but it was worse than some bad movies, such as the Turkish Star Wars. Now there's a great unintentional surealist comedy...
shareI was about 7 and saw this when it first came on tv. Kiss with special powers...awesome! My sister had given me a kiss pin up about a year earlier. I was a huge fan. My very first album was the one with Gene on the cover. I saw this movie again last night...very cheesy and still awesome...kiss fighting themselves, how great is that? LOL!
shareyeha I was maybe 11. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world, or at least I tried convincing myself that. Its funny being a kid and KISS were larger than life to me at the time and could do no wrong, and I remember watching it and being disappointed inside but trying not to allow myself to believe they let me down, and then convincing myself in the end it was so great. A year later I discovered Van Halen's first album and KISS left my childhood behind forever.
shareThe ironic thing 'bout your Kiss to Van Halen conversion is the connection 'twixt the 2.
Y'see (in case U didn't know)one Demon Gene Simmons produced the 1st Van Halen demos @ Electric Ladyland Studios in New York.
And to get back on the 1st time seeing it topic, I saw it on broadcast TV when it 1st aired and loving it.
And in 1984 I saw it on TV again and thought to myself, where are the Magic Mountain mascots?
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I remember this!!! I saw this in the late 70's, so I was about 9 years old. I remember watching this one night over my friend's house on tv. I was never a big KISS fan but I thought they were cool looking. Actually I never even owned one of their albums! But when I would go to any record store back then, I would always go to the KISS bin and stare at their record covers. I was kind of fascinated with them. However, I used to collect KISS bubble gum cards!! Anyone remember them? Anyway, I remembered thinking this movie was cool and good!!! I liked it back then! Ha ha! I haven't seen this since 1978 and my tastes have changed quite a bit since then. I'm sure this movie is quite atrocious! But back in 1978, KISS was quite a phenomenom! So, I should just keep everything the way it was and not re-watch this movie because I don't want to wreck my good memories of 1978! It's best to leave some things the way they were. I did have the Casablanca label 45 single "I Was Made For Loving You". I still like that song today!
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