User:Mclamchop1/Steve (film)

Steve is a 1998 cult horror film about a teenager in a Metallica cover band who discovers that he has the ability to talk to Cliff Burton from beyond the grave with the use of an unreleased record by the band.. The film was released on October 31, 1998, and bombed at the box office. It was taken out of theaters after only a few months of release. The 1986 Metallica line-up appear in the film as themshelves.

A sequel, Steve II: Death Stick, was released direct-to-DVD on October 13, 2008, almost ten years after the release of the original film.

Plot
The film begins in September 1986. Steve Batakis is a high school student whose favorite band is Metallica. One day he is listening to the radio when he hears the news that Metallica bassist Cliff Burton has been killed in a tour bus accident. Devastated, Steve visits a close friend of his, Kyle Logan, a disc jockey who knew Burton personally. To help Steve take his mind off of Burton, Kyle gives him an unreleased acetate disc by Metallica. While listening to the record, Steve falls asleep and has a strange dream about Burton's death.

He wakes up to find that the record is playing backwards. After listening to it for a few seconds, he realises that Cliff Burton is speaking to him from beyond the grave. Steve accidentally spills Mountain Dew on the record, causing an electrical surge, and it gives Burton just the amount of energy he needs to come out of the record. Burton attempts to break up Metallica. He can only travel through radios and other electronic devices, so Steve goes around breaking every radio he can find. Finally, Steve captures Burton in a cassette tape and smashes the tape with a drumstick, destroying Burton.

Sequel
Ideas of a sequel began originating in the early 2000s. Writer of the original film, Metallica vocalist James Hetfield himself, could not find the perfect idea for a story of the film. Dave Mustaine agreed that he would help the band with the writing for the second film. Writing began in mid-2001.

Mustaine announced in early 2002 that the film will be called Kyle, and would focus heavily on Kyle Logan, the disc jockey from the original film, and how he gave Steve the haunted record on purpose. This idea was later scrapped in 2004 and the film had no writer, and the project was eventually abandoned.

Work on the project continued in 2005, with Dave Mustaine returning to write a new script for the film. The film was now called Cliff Burton: Fall of Steve, and was about Steve's later years and growing up in a mental hospital after the events of the original film. It was to feature the death of Steven Batakis and how he comes face-to-face with the true Cliff Burton, in the form of a ghost.

Mustaine kept to his original idea of this film, but was fired from the project after reviews of the script were negative from Metallica members. The project was officially cancelled once again. After two long years, Lars Ulrich, drummer of Metallica, announced that he will be working with James Hetfield on the script for the real sequel.

Steve II: Death Stick was released on October 13, 2008 direct-to-DVD almost ten years after the original film's theatrical release. The film was set ten years after the events of the previous film, in 1996, and had Steve coping with paranoia in a mental institute (similar to the original Mustaine Fall of Steve script). The film has sold over 800,000 copies since release.

Soundtrack

 * 1) Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
 * 2) White Zombie - "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls"
 * 3) Van Halen - "Poundcake"
 * 4) Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
 * 5) Living Colour - "Cult of Personality"
 * 6) The Donnas - "Surrender"
 * 7) The Doors - "Light My Fire"
 * 8) Guns N' Roses - "November Rain"
 * 9) Queen- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
 * 10) Pantera - "Cowboys from Hell"