Prayer of the Rollerboys in Hecklevision
Rated R; 95min; Director:Rick King (1990)
From the website: HeckleVision is the Action Pack's newest interactive way of enjoying a movie, and the basic premise is super simple: There's a spot at the bottom of the screen that holds five lines of text, and audience members in the theater can text in whatever they want to say about the movie while we all watch it together. Our debut HeckleVision show, a screening of the classic Lifetime Original Movie INVISIBLE CHILD, was a raging success and one of the most fun experiences we've had in the theater in a while. Unlike regular hecklers who get loud and ruin the movie for everyone, the silence of the texts mean that you don't miss a second of the hilariously bad dialog in the wonderfully cheesy movies we pick for this series, but you also have an endless supply of extra jokes enhancing the experience for you. And when those jokes aren't funny enough, of course, you can text in your own!
PRAYER OF THE ROLLERBOYS is a redux of one of our original (and failed idea) Heckler's Paradise screenings, and as we've been digging through the '90s to prep up for the 1997 Sing-Along one inexplicable trend had one perfectly inexplicable movie role - Corey Haim plays a Rollerblading pizza delivery driver in a bizarre future dystopia that is lorded over by the Rollerboys, a gang of white trench coat wearing synchronized skaters who are pushing a special sort of drug that should sterilize the poor people and lead to a brighter, Nazi-ish future. Yeah, reread that sentence and try to get a handle on what this movie is about. We're pretty sure audiences leaving the theater after it's insanely short run were the first people to coin the term, "WTF?" (Henri Mazza)



