Suck (2009)
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With the genre's recent surge of vampire films, it's hard to find something actually good among all the crap. The recent Canadian-based vamp flick Suck, luckily doesn't fall into the crap-side of things and despite its name, does not suck.
The film follows a underperforming rock band, ironically named "The Winners" that travels from one small town-bar after another, until they strike it big after their female bass player leaves with a strange man named "Queeny" one night, only to return the next day a new woman (or vampire).
It's not long before the band discovers new found fame, especially after they play on the vampire-angle, and of course, it helps that the female bass player puts the audience under a trance, thanks to her new vamptastic powers. Now the only problem the band faces is how not to succumb to the thirst and drink human blood...
The blood-suckin' rock-comedy features a number of musicians that offer fun little cameos throughout the pic, namely Moby, who plays a hardcore metal singer named "Beef", and of course Alice Cooper as the devious bartender/ancient vampire, and Dimitri Coats as "Queeny", who plays a surprisingly wicked lookin' blood-sucker.
Henry Rollins also has a cameo as the outspoken disc-jockey and comedian Dave Foley plays the band's agent. Genre-vet Malcolm McDowell co-stars as Eddie Van Helsing, a eye-patch wearin' vampire-slayer with a grudge against Queeny, who killed the woman he loved decades prior.
Unlike the recent horrible Vampires Suck spoof, the comedy in this film actually works, delivering a lot of chuckles and a few laugh-out-loud moments for me. I'm also normally not a fan of flicks that offers musical sequences, especially when characters randomly burst out into song, but the ones in this pic work considering they're a rock band and the songs aren't all that bad to begin with.
The movie is, of course, not without its faults -- a majority of the flick consists of traveling to one bar after the other, even after they get vamped, which does get a bit repetitive after a while. Then towards the end of the flick the group (much like the viewer) gets a little tired of the same-old and decides to finally end the charade and go after the vamp that started it all -- Queeny.
Despite the film's title, the movie does not Suck, and as a comedy, delivers some surprisingly good chuckles and laugh-out-loud moments (for me anyway). There's a decent amount of blood, but not much as far as gore goes. Never-the-less, Suck is a nice addition to the recent surge of crappy vampire flicks. Worth a check if you're lookin' for a fun horror comedy with a rock twist.