Suck
Suck
R | 11 September 2009 (USA)
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The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA after Jennifer is turned into a vampire by Queeny. Meanwhile, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark named Eddie Van Helsing quickly chases them down.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Protraph

Lack of good storyline.

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Intcatinfo

A Masterpiece!

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Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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mherrin-43253

Suck: Written and directed by Rob StefaniukHello and welcome back to the Shack. I hope you enjoyed that time off after Last Flag Flying. I needed a palate cleanser and my lovely fiancee recommended this lovely, obscure Canadian horror comedy with Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins gracing the cast. It's a movie about an indie band whose bassist is turned into a vampire. They're on tour trying to get a record made and the usual pitfalls that come with being a vampire. It works in visual gags to vampire movies past and the tropes associated with the Dracula story such as making the overlooked and underappreciated roadie into the Renfield character. It also makes fun of the music industry and album covers. It has so much in it and it's only 83 minutes long. So with barbecue chicken cooking in the oven and a Dr. Pepper with a little something extra in the mixture, I set out to watch Suck. Hot damn this movie is pretty fantastic. The jokes just keep popping out and the movie expects you to keep up with their frantic pace. The visuals for this little low budget movie made in Canada are insanely beautiful and clever. They pack so much detail in each frame that you have to kind of sit there in awe of the work. The music plays a big part of it. It is about the music industry. It has the fragile egos of lead singers. It has that grimy agent character and selling out. To be famous and get people into their music, they have to change themselves in the process. It's also really funny.This is the key thing to understand. It's funny. If you've read any reviews I've done in the past, you'll know that finding a good comedy is back breaking intensive labor. If comedy is not funny, it has little to nothing else to recommend it. If a drama is bad or a horror movie is bad, it can still be funny. This is my philosophy folks. With that having been explained, Suck manages to overcome this and be a genuinely funny good time of a movie. I cackled a bit. I chuckled at the Francis Ford Coppola map joke. I snickered at the Abbey Road joke. This is a really solid, really good movie. I can not recommend this enough. I give this movie an A.

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guisreis

What a funny Canadian dark comedy! Clever and innovative, well filmed and visually stunning. The stop motion trips by car or plane and the craziness of Jen's vampirization or blood abstinence footage are very cool and sophisticated cinematographic solutions. Beautiful Jessica Paré's character Jennifer is one of the most charming vampiresses I have ever seen, perhaps the most. Characters portrayed by music stars, such as Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, and punk rock Black Flag's Henry Rollins are very entertaining and captivating. Off course the same may be said about hard rock guitarist Dimitri Coats's master vampire Queeny, who is really creepy. None of the guys from the rock band does a bad job, but after Jessica Paré's Jennifer I would highlight as the second best Chris Ratz's Hugo, a very funny version of Bram Stoker's character Renfield. Seeing Clockwork Orange's Malcolm McDowell as an eyepatch wearing Van Helsing was also great. Soundtrack, as it was supposed to be, is nice. Rob Stefaniuk, who is the film director, the screenplay writer and one of the leading role actors (the leader of the looser band "The Winners"), deserves public appreciation. This is one of the best vampire films I have watched, probably one of my top 10.

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oneguyrambling

Here is a film that ignores some of the more obvious issues that becoming a vampire might raise and instead goes right to big one: "What if the Vampire played bass in your band?" In this lighthearted and fairly amusing romp that's about as deep as it gets.A struggling indie band whose own manager thinks they should sack him are going nowhere - until at a post gig after-party their bass player and only female member Jennifer heads off into the night with a vampire... that's not a spoiler folks this guy was obviously 100% vampire - Suck isn't a film that engages in subtlety much.After missing the tour-hearse (not bus) the next morning the lead singer Joey, her ex-boyfriend by the way, decides enough and promotes the band roadie (and funniest guy in the film) Hugo to play bass - with ear-bleeding results.So it seems a relief when a couple days later Jennifer reappears in fine fettle. If there is one thing that dozens of vampire films have shown us in the last couple years it is that Vampires have great skin! More than that the first gig with her back in the fold is a huge success - for them - literally dozens of hits on their website.This momentum continues to build as more and more people show to their gigs to be entranced and taken by Jennifer's beauty and fangy-charisma.The band are skeptical of Jennifer's true condition, especially when they find her chewing on her latest victim in a motel room... but sometimes you have to turn a blind eye to get to the top. Joey is less willing to take a back seat, leading him to undermine her impact at every available turn.But as the famous saying goes - If having one vampire in your band is good, surely more is better? You might not have heard that saying but trust me it is huuuuge where I come from.The whole movie plays out like an extended comedy skit, though it mostly remains just on the good side of outstaying it's welcome by featuring cameo after cameo of famous rockers just when things seem to be slowing down.Alice Cooper has a supporting role and pops up every now and then, Iggy Pop plays a "seen it all" music producer and Henry Rollins has a very funny (and seemingly non-Henry Rollins) role as a moronic DJ who interviews the band.I liked Suck and chuckled while I was watching the film, but it is essentially a one-note film that doesn't do much to shake up the vampire genre. It is a refreshing alternative to the oh so serious-yet vacant Twilight stuff though.Wooops! Nearly forgot the other ethical dilemma created by having a vampire bass player: "Do the roles of the indie band roadie extend to cleaning up dead parts of groupies?" I'll leave you to chew over that one for the next few days.Final Rating - 5.5 / 10. The best thing you can say about a movie called Suck is that at least it doesn't...

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siderite

Can a semi-musical vampire movie with a comedic twist ever be good? Rob Stefaniuk proves it can! This Canadian movie starring Rob Stefaniuk and Jessica Pare (... oh wait, you don't know who they are? How about Alice Cooper, Moby, Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop ? They are all in this) mixes all of the things above into a perfect union. I find it hard to describe it without comparing it to other things. It feels like the original Lost Boys found Interview with a Vampire, it looks like a Queens of the Stone Age video, it sounds like a rock concert and the jokes are tasteful and they relate to things without parody, but only good humour.Bottom line: too cool for words, this film is not even about vampires. The undead condition is only a metaphor for the seduction of success. Best quote: "I'm just here to set you free... again.". It just proves that a good idea and a lot of spirit can make a movie great without the need for explosions and naked women. Watch it! Now!

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