Here comes SUCKcess…
Nobody can have failed to notice that the vampire genre has clicked up a notch or two in the last few years.
It was always going to be hard to top the original Nosferatu, but the genre evolved along the way with films that bent the rules and brought more style to the proceedings…obviously Tony Scott?s The Hunger with David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon did both in a major way.
Today, with the advent of great TV shows such as True Blood and recent films like Tomas Alfredson‘s beautiful Let The Right One In and Park Chan-wook’s deliciously dark Thirst, it seems vampirism has a fair bit of mileage left in it yet.
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A rock?n?roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager (Dave Foley) tells them that they are getting ?long in the tooth?, he doesn?t know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire (Dimitri Coats). She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild.
As the band members succumb, one by one, to blood lust, their ?gimmick? launches them into the limelight. Following an ?incident? on a national radio show with ?Rock?n Roger? (Henry Rollins), they hit mega-stardom beyond their wildest dreams. Joey (Rob Stefaniuk), the lead singer, is haunted by an eerie bartender (Alice Cooper), who turns out to be much more. Meanwhile, legendary vampire hunter, Eddie Van Helsig (Malcolm McDowell), is tracking them down, despite his fear of the dark. When a veteran music producer (Iggy Pop) calls them on becoming a vampire freak show, they begin to realize that fame is not what it?s cracked up to be.
Suck is a wild ride down a highway to hell, with a killer soundtrack that includes Iggy Pop?s, ?TVeye? and ?Success?; Alice Cooper?s, ?I am a Spider?; Lou Reed?s Velvet Underground?s ?Sweet Nuthin?; David Bowie?s, ?Here Comes the Night? and The Rolling Stones, ?Sympathy for the Devil?.
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As Rolling Stone magazine says: “Suck has the potential to become a cult classic”.