Regardless of whether the message was positive or negative, the world received more than a few horror films centered around one of the era's most prominent musical fixtures. Many figures who saw rock and metal as a corrupting influence also threw their hats into the ring, hoping to release a film to stem the tide of what they considered the destruction of the youth. The deluge of films around rock n' roll was carried primarily by aspiring filmmakers, and not all of their messages were ones of appreciation towards the music genre. It was only natural, then, that the VHS boom would collide with the leather, hair spray, and manic guitar solos found in the parallel rock scene. Smaller-time producers and studios could bypass theatrical releases and distribute their movies for VHS purchase and rental right away.
Anybody with a consumer-grade video camera could ostensibly become a filmmaker, and a huge uptick of direct-to-home-video releases was the only conclusion to this paradigm. It wasn't just major theatrical films receiving home distribution, either. As the '80s continued, it became increasingly clear that VHS was the victor, and the result was a boom in VHS distribution. At the same time, home video's Format War was well underway between popular video recording devices such as Betamax and VHS. Hard rock and hair metal bands traveled coast to coast on every continent in wave upon wave of in-your-face attitude. "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" was an axiom coined by a 1977 Ian Dury single, and much of the rock music industry in its wake demonstrated this well, especially in the 1980s.
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