Vampires Suck
Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen is torn between two boys. Before she can choose, Becca must get around her controlling father, who embarrasses Becca by treating her like a child. Meanwhile, Becca's friends contend with their own romantic issues - all of which collide at the prom.
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- Cast:
- Jenn Proske , Matt Lanter , Chris Riggi , Diedrich Bader , Anneliese van der Pol , Ken Jeong , Arielle Kebbel
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Boring
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
When I was watching trailers on YouTube, I stumbled upon this film. I was bored so I decided to watch it, although it didn't seem such a high- quality movie. Luckily I had nothing else to do, otherwise this was a waste of time.It is obvious that this movie is a parody of 'Twilight', a film of which I thought wasn't that bad. Most parodies I have watched made the film a little bit ridiculous, but 'Vampires suck' took it a few steps further. They exaggerated everything too much, that some scenes weren't even funny anymore. Some other scenes were so weird, therefore I was often confused. For example the scene where the werewolves suddenly start doing a strange dance to 'It's Raining Men', I have to admit, I laughed a little, but just because I felt so uncomfortable.One thing I did thought was a little bit funny, were the fan girls of team Edward and team Jacob, because when 'Twilight' was a thing, those two 'teams' actually existed. I especially laughed at the ending, which was also the only time I laughed, when one of the fan girls hit Edward and yelled, with a very manly voice, "Team Jacob, bitch!".You may know the films 'Epic Movie' or 'Disaster Movie'. Well 'Vampires Suck' fits perfectly in that list. It is just as peculiar and cringy as those other films. The only time I would recommend this film, is when you have some leisure time and you want to think about absolutely nothing.
Vampires Suck (2010): Dir: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer / Cast: Jenn Proske, Matt Lanter, Chris Riggi, Diedrich Bader, Ken Jeong: In a long line of sh*t stain parodies by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer this film doesn't suck as much as Disaster Movie. In fact, it looks like an Oscar winner in comparison. On the positive end it does address the overrated popularity of the Twilight films especially when it attacks the attitude of devoted fans. Jenn Proske plays Becca who moves back in with her father and becomes fixated on Edward, a teenage vampire. He is played by Matt Lanter, and Chris Riggi plays her canine neighbour who is infatuated with her. Diedrich Bader plays Becca's father who leads the search regarding local killings. Proske plays the role inspired by Kristen Stewart and the translation is like kicking the actress while she is down. Proske whines and whimpers in an amusing attempt to convey a variation of Stewart that is exaggerated. Lanter dons the hair and pansy mannerism exaggerated from the Robert Pattinson character. Chris Riggi as the werewolf jealous boyfriend wannabe but when heated up he becomes something far short of a werewolf. Bader treats Proske like a kid while blaming the murders on the Kardashians. Ken Jeong is becoming as familiar with these films as Bader and Tony Cox and Jennifer Coolidge, and that is no compliment. This is the best effort by the duo directors who apparently dislike the Twilight phenomenon. While it does address the frustration regarding Twilight fans, the special effects are terrible and become just one more element that make this film suck all the more. Score: 4 / 10
Twilight and its sequels are a crime against literature, film, humanity in general so when I saw that the series was getting this treatment I was overjoyed. I knew some people who were self-confessed twi-hards (they've since developed brain cells and grown out of it) and they were ANGRY at this film so I knew it must be giving the series hell.Twilight is so sickeningly bad that if it weren't to be taken seriously it could pass as comedy. It effectively killed vampires, werewolves, teenage fiction and the fantasy genre for the best part of a decade and so it deserved to be mocked in every way possible and this movie manages this with success. From the unlikeable protagonist with one face to the gay werewolves, from the irritating fangirls to the incoherent plots, from the unnecessary cast changes to the franchise that seemingly just WOULD NOT DIE, everything wrong with the series is tackled head-on from the start. And so it should be: Anyone who insults the series is worthy of praise. Sure, there's the OTT sexual jokes, the unsubtle innuendos, the occasional racial undertone but this is the spoof genre and is to be expected.Twi-hards (if there are any left who haven't grown a brain and moved on to the far superior Hunger Games) will be insulted but they deserve it for liking that filth. Anything that punishes Twilight is excellent in my book and this movie is perfect for that.
Twilight was one of the most annoying franchises of the last decade, and certainly ripe for parody. Unfortunately, most of its parodies are shallow "comedies" that reference certain scenes, and then insert flatulence jokes and uninspired slapstick in them. That's Vampires Suck (2010) in a nutshell.Random is the word of the day here. Random musical numbers, random celebrities popping up out of nowhere, random fights, random references to other bits of popular culture that have nothing to do with Twilight or vampires. I understand most people think random equals funny, but guess what? It doesn't. It just makes for a boring, frustrating mess of a movie.