It makes sense for me to review this film now just because the DVD came out a few weeks ago and I just happened to see it. I am not going to lie and say this is an amazing film- it is not. It’s a documentary about the lead singer of the 70’s doom metal band Pentagram Bobby Liebling who spent years smoking crack in his parents basement. He- I don’t know- Pentagram is a really good band but I am not crazy about this Liebling guy. He’s really not especially insightful or interesting. He’s a weirdo, and not really in a positive way. He gets sober by the end of the film. The film is similar in tone to the documentary about Arthur Kane of the New York Dolls except Arthur Kane had vanished from music and become a very serious Mormon, which is a lot more sympathetic. Bobby is pretty annoying, he vanished from music to smoke crack in his parent's basement. But who is really annoying is his wife. He marries one of his young fans in the film. This is an ugly crackhead who lives with his mom. First of all, she becomes romantically involved with a particularly ugly crackhead because he was in some band in the 70’s, which reminds me a lot of the woman who said she wouldn’t date me because I wasn’t a skinhead in high school. Secondly, if you watch the film, the strong argument could be made that she was more of a hindrance to Bobby’s recovery than a help. The documentary doesn’t even play that much Pentagram in it.
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