SUCK: AN APPRECIATION
Oct. 22nd, 2012 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSo I watched this over the weekend:
If you can’t be bothered to watch the trailer, the premise is this: struggling rock’n’roll band The Winners hit it big after their cute bass player is turned into a vampire.
It’s a comedy.
And it’s actually a lot of fun, though admittedly a lot of the fun comes from the various cameos from actual rock musicians – from the obvious (Alice Cooper as vampire bartender, Henry Rollins as the asshole shock-jock DJ) to the not so obvious (Alex Lifeson of Rush as a tough immigration officer!).
Also, the occasional integration of iconic rock album covers is a nice touch.
That said, it doesn’t take the vampire stuff very seriously, and as such avoids some of the more obvious horror-movie tropes. So overall it’s a good time – depending possibly on what you think of the actual songs by the band, which are decent but fairly standard Alt/Rock.
That’s always the trouble with rock’n’roll horror movies – the music quality varies greatly, whether you write yr own songs for the film or rely on an established act like (say) Fastway.
Still, I will say The Winners are probably the most convincing rock band I’ve seen in a rockinrolls horror film that didn’t rely on Michael Angelo Batio for a guitar stunt double.
Rock is undead,
This is dF
If you can’t be bothered to watch the trailer, the premise is this: struggling rock’n’roll band The Winners hit it big after their cute bass player is turned into a vampire.
It’s a comedy.
And it’s actually a lot of fun, though admittedly a lot of the fun comes from the various cameos from actual rock musicians – from the obvious (Alice Cooper as vampire bartender, Henry Rollins as the asshole shock-jock DJ) to the not so obvious (Alex Lifeson of Rush as a tough immigration officer!).
Also, the occasional integration of iconic rock album covers is a nice touch.
That said, it doesn’t take the vampire stuff very seriously, and as such avoids some of the more obvious horror-movie tropes. So overall it’s a good time – depending possibly on what you think of the actual songs by the band, which are decent but fairly standard Alt/Rock.
That’s always the trouble with rock’n’roll horror movies – the music quality varies greatly, whether you write yr own songs for the film or rely on an established act like (say) Fastway.
Still, I will say The Winners are probably the most convincing rock band I’ve seen in a rockinrolls horror film that didn’t rely on Michael Angelo Batio for a guitar stunt double.
Rock is undead,
This is dF
