Shane West gives a riveting performance as Darby Crash, the Los Angeles-based punk-rock star who was the lead singer of the Germs and committed suicide via heroin overdose in 1980. Writer-director Rodger Grossman vividly and impressively captures the Germs' wild and manic 1970s concert scenes. Following the film's wrap, some surviving members of the Germs played a series of reunion dates with actor Shane West fronting the band. Rick Gonzalez, Bijou Phillips, Noah Segan, Tina Majorino, Ray Park.