Cross-media picks for Blue Öyster Cult fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share a sensibility that will feel familiar to any Blue Öyster Cult devotee: the interlocking of rock culture with something darker and stranger underneath. From animated features where music summons demons (Rock & Rule) to a corporate drone clinging to his heavy-metal past (Legend of Black Heaven), the thread running through films, shows, games and books is the belief that rock 'n' roll is not just entertainment — it's mythology, ritual, and occasionally a portal to something genuinely unsettling. Expect obsession, atmosphere, and a faint smell of sulphur.
Film
Rock & Rule
A villain rock star kidnaps a singer to force her to summon a demon — music and occult darkness fused into one gloriously weird animated feature.
Film
Song Sung Blue
Two down-on-their-luck musicians form a Neil Diamond tribute band and find unexpected joy, connection, and a second chance.
Film
Fats Domino: Walking to New Orleans
A concert film capturing Fats Domino performing his signature catalogue of rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues.
Film
Psych-Out
A deaf runaway falls in with a psychedelic band in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where music and mystery are inseparable.
Film
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
A teenage girl navigates a dangerous adult world after her jazz-playing father dies, with music woven through the drama.
Film
Mortuary Blues
Horror-comedy set on a remote island where annual rituals and hidden secrets lurk beneath a festive surface.
Film
Blue Velvet
A severed ear leads a young man into visceral darkness — mystery, crime, and dread wrapped in lush, unsettling atmosphere.
Film
Body Rock
A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends, splitting loyalty against ambition.
Series
takt op.Destiny
Music is the world's life force — until monstrous invaders silence it, and survivors must fight to restore it.
Series
Classic Albums
A documentary series dissecting the rock and pop albums considered most distinctive or definitive in music history.
Series
Legend of Black Heaven
A burnt-out office worker's only grip on sanity is the memory of his heavy-metal glory days — affecting and quietly absurd.
Series
Show by Rock!! Stars!!
An all-stars season reuniting every band from previous series, each bringing its own distinct sound and personality.
Series
Texhnolyze
A fractured underground city ruled by rival factions creates a brooding, atmospheric world of dread and moral ambiguity.
Series
Chance Pop Session
Three young women from different worlds meet by chance at a concert, discovering that music can transcend every barrier between them.
Series
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
A documentary portrait of the Beatle who was always much more than just a member of the world's most famous band.
Series
M3: The Dark Metal
Children drawn back to a void of darkness must confront monsters born from the same place that once bound them together.
Game
AC/DC LIVE: Rock Band
Step inside an AC/DC concert and live out a rock 'n' roll fantasy in dedicated music-game format.
Game
Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
Shred through 80s rock tracks on PS2 in retro venues — a time capsule of the decade that defined hard rock.
Game
Rock Band 2
The most ambitious and authentic entry in the series — master lead guitar, bass, drums, and vocals together.
Game
Rock Band
Pick up the guitar controller and chase rock stardom on a world tour — the game that made music physical.
Game
The Chant
A peaceful island spiritual retreat turns to dread after a group chant opens a psychedelic dimension that feeds on negative energy.
Game
Rock Band 3
The latest Rock Band entry — seek fame, fortune, and rock stardom on a world tour, mastering guitar, bass, drums, and vocals.
Game
Mixtape (2025)
Three friends spend one last high-school night together, playing through memories set to an alternative and new-wave soundtrack.
Game
Mushroom 11
Delete the organism and it grows: mould an amorphous creature through a mysterious world of bizarre mutated obstacles.
Book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Rock criticism at its sharpest — essays on Bowie, Lou Reed, the Clash, Iggy Pop, and the mythology of the form.
Book
Slash
A memoir from one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era, redefining sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
Book
Saucerful of secrets
A biography of a British rock band that pushed progressive and psychedelic music into new territory.
Book
Children of the night
A rock band's rising fortunes attract dangerously glamorous after-party guests — and something predatory hiding behind the cool.
Book
Everybody needs a rock
A gentle guide to finding the perfect rock for play and pleasure — tactile, humble, and quietly joyful.
Book
Without You
The story of Badfinger, a band George Harrison admired deeply, whose promise was crushed by bad luck and bad business.
Book
Rock and roll, 1955-1970
A history of rock tracing its roots in rhythm and blues through solo stars and the supergroups that followed.
Book
SpongeBob rocks!
SpongeBob and friends form a rock band, Squidward gets resentful and steals their instruments — irreverent fun for any age.
Start with Rock & Rule (1983), an animated film where a rock star literally summons a demon — it captures the occult-meets-hard-rock energy perfectly. Blue Velvet and Psych-Out are also strong picks for fans who like their darkness served with atmosphere.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung is essential — rock criticism as myth and menace, covering Bowie, Iggy Pop, the Clash, and more. Children of the Night goes darker: a rock band whose after-parties attract something genuinely predatory. Saucerful of Secrets covers a progressive and psychedelic British band in depth.
The Rock Band series lets you live the hard-rock fantasy from the inside. For something stranger, The Chant delivers a psychedelic horror retreat where a group ritual tears open a dimension of dread.