Review of Vampires Suck

Vampires Suck (2010)
6/10
Oddly watchable mess.
3 December 2010
Becca Crane (Jenn Proske) moved to Sporks to live with her clueless father (Diedrich Bader), who is the sheriff as well. Becca slowly realized that there is Vampires in Sporks. Becca finds herself falling in love with Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter), who happens to be a vampire as well going to her high school. She becomes friends with Jennifer (Anneliese van der Pol), a fast talking teen slut. Becca is also in danger, when three vampires (Arielle Kebbel, Charlie Weber and B.J. Britt) are after her. Edward saved her from one of the vampire attacks and Jacob (Christopher N. Riggi) also saved Becca from those attacks. But Jacob is a werewolf, who changes into a Chihuahua (!). But Jacob is in love with Becca. Now Becca has to choose between Edward and Jacob.

Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who are the infamous writers and directors of such low-brow comedic disasters most of the time, laugh-less spoof such as "Date Movie", "Epic Movie", "Meet the Spartans" and the worst of all "Disaster Movie". Although Friedberg and Seltzer wrote an slightly more coherent script. The best thing about "Vampires Suck" is Jenn Proske as Becca, she captures Kristen Stewart performance as Bella from the "Twilight" movies. Proske is dead on in the movie. Bader is well-cast as her dad. Anneliese van der Pol is amusing as Jennifer, she makes fun of Anna Kendrick's role as Jessica quite well.

The DVD rental exclusive has no special features. The DVD is the original theatrical version. DVD has an good anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an good Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. The worst thing is Friedberg and Seltzer's script. Sometimes their jokes starts as amusing, then so-so and then unfunny. Their visual gags and as well as dialogue doesn't help at all. But at least, "Vampire Suck" is more watchable mess than "Disaster Movie". Proske has one surprisingly sexy sequence with Latner, when she tries to seduced Edward by wearing sexy lingerie (A clever reference of "Naked Gun 33 1/3:The Final Insult). Perphas the best thing about "Vampire Suck" is the end-title sequence with a music track by Marilyn Manson titled "If I Was Your Vampire" is a good touch. Otherwise, "Vampire Suck" is watchable but just don't expect much from the Friedberg and Seltzer team. (** ½/*****).
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