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DECADENT EVIL

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Normally, if you told me I was about to watch a movie with midgets and nudity I'd order up some food, grab a drink and get ready for a fun night of movie watching. Somehow Decadent Evil proved me wrong. Now granted, I am giving this thing 2 stars for the aforementioned reasons, but I must stop there as so much else is wrong with this movie. First, it's not a movie. It's ONE HOUR LONG. HELLLOOOOOOO???!! 1 hour = tv show. This is an extended episode of "Tales from the Crypt" and really I would give Tales more credit than this. It's another take on a vampire tale with the added bonus of having a really ugly muppet/puppet in a cage as the pet of one of the female vampires. I could try and describe the plot, but the story is so uncompelling that attempting to repeat it in any way would cause more effort than just sitting in the chair and having the plot ham-fistedly shoved down your throat as the movie so expertly does. Its about female vampries that work in a strip club and a midget Van Helsing... that's all I'll say. Now to the summary: The goods: (obligatory nudity, and a midget vampire slayer with a cool hat) The bads: The special effects (the muppet(s), the piss-poor acting of 3/4 of the cast, the ham fisted plot. 2 Stars. I am officially offering up a new classification for movies that make great cannon fodder for running commentary. In tribute to Mystery Science Theatre 3000, I am going to add "3000" to any movie title that is bad, but good enough to goof on. This qualified. Enjoy Decadent Evil 3000.

The makers of this film couldn't decide what kind of film they wanted. The first 10 mins of my copy had exerts from "Vampire Journals". So this film must be some kind of continuation, but they needed to give you 10mins of the previous film to bring you up to speed.

Next we get to the present film. It started off really good. A guy takes his girl to a strip joint. She's reluctant to be there. A stripper (a vampire) comes over and offers her a lap-dance - and this is where it got better, the stripper is able to seduce her and they all go back to the stipper's joint - which happens to be a mansion. Again the woman's reluctant but the stripper has some power to turn her on. And then suddenly all of this is taken away. Another vampire (the 'queen') shows up. Bits the guy. The girlfriend runs off, grabbed by the queen who feeds on her. Suddenly they've gone from having a sexually charged willing victim to just a victim. And the vampire bites her and less than five seconds later she's done. What happened to their power to seduce their victim?

Then there's a puppet vampire!

One of the vampire strippers falls in love for a guy she works down at the club with - a very over-used plot vehicle.

The guy she works with teams up with a midget vampire hunter.

What a confused mess.

A female vampire leads a covey of vampire stripper babes. They get their victims from the strip club, one line, and call girls. A midget Van Helsing, who knows the ins and outs of this particular blood line, is after them. One of the vampires has a human bf that she doesn't kill. There is also Marvin, a weird foot tall bloody creature who looks like something out of the Puppet Master series. The first kill involves a real classy guy who takes his reluctant girl friend to a strip joint and gets her a lap dance. The movie is so corny it is funny. A good one to watch stoned. Not much horror.

Hardcore porn star Harmony Rose provides the nudity in a weird scene with Marvin.

Exquisite ambiance. However the cinematography, at times, lacked boobs. In addition, the acting fell short of what I expected giving the long standing tradition of the genre. The opening sequence captured our attention with the promise of full frontal female nudity, however that promise was never realized. For a film of this caliber to only contain four breasteses and zero ladyparts is an enormous letdown (in the pants). Therefore I could only rate this film at four stars (one for each boob). At least the ending left things open enough for a second film, and I look forward to breastacular sequel.

Ho hum flick by Full Moon studios about a group of lady vampires. I wouldn't recommend it, but see it if you must. i got it in a pack of 8 DVDs for 5 bucks at the store. Half of them were from Full Moon.

Decadent Evil is such a crappy movie. I watched this last night as I didn't want to have to think about the story. The opposite occurred. I kept thinking about what a crappy story it was, with crappy lines, read by crappy actors -- all shot on an extremely low budget, in just a week. It was a vampire movie that looked as if it used pasta sauce for blood. Everything about this movie was crappy, except the end -- which was a relief. Don't get me wrong -- I like cheese, but this was just bad cheese. The actors, with the exception of two, were just bad. They couldn't act.


The plot -- although I'm not sure you can call it that -- follows the vampire Morella, and her coven of two other others: Sugar and Spyce. Sugar and Spyce are strippers at night, who sometimes lure customers back to their mansion for their master (not sure why she's not referred to as mistress), Morella, to drink their blood, and their soul. Morella needs to drink 10,000 souls apparently to become invincible and become a vampire queen. Sugar and Spyce are idiots. Sugar even "loves" the DJ at the strip club -- and they plan on running off and living happily together. Morella's doesn't believe in love. Apparently she loved a guy once, but found him with another woman -- so she killed the woman and turned the guy in some short, "proto-human" creature that is played rather badly by a doll. As Morella is two souls away from reaching 10,000 souls, the action comes to a climax. A dwarf vampire killer appears. He's apparently the son of Morella's former boyfriend, and he's out to avenge his dad. They fight -- really badly -- the good guys win, and Morella is reduced to a short "proto-human" as well.


Dumb, dumb story! Stupid, stupid move! It should be watched only to see an example of a really bad movie.

This has got to be one of the most forgettable movies ever. I rented it a few months ago and watched it several times (in my location there's no cable or broadcast tv). Last week I rented it again by mistake and again watched it several times. I cannot remember a thing about it. Well, maybe a little- it's more interesting than staring at a blank wall, but just barely.

So I guess it's not a keeper.

WARNING: possible spoilers ahead...

This movie isn't worth the time it would take me to write a proper review of it. As it is, I will only feel comfortable wasting about two minutes writing about it. I do this in the hope that I will be able to save other horror fans some time and money. I'm some kind of horror martyr. I watched this movie so you don't have to. The clock is running. Let's see if I can encapsulate why this movie stinks in 120 seconds.

The infamous Charles Band returns to Z-level horror with Decadent Evil, the story of a midget Van Helsing who's trying to hunt down a group of vampires. The ridiculous cast is rounded out by an evil puppet. It wouldn't be a Full Moon movie if it didn't have an evil puppet and some lesbian sex somewhere in there.

Full Moon Charlie tried to tie this movie into his most popular movies, the Subspecies vampire series. What this means is that for the first ten minutes of the movie, you wind up watching scenes from the other 6 Subspecies movies in a lame attempt to create some kind of continuity with this most recent piece of garbage. The thing that I find most insulting is that I actually liked a couple of the Subspecies movies. Decadent Evil besmirches what used to be a pretty fun series of vampire movies.

I couldn't really figure out how this was supposed to be related to Ash or any of his vampires except that there's like three lesbian vampires that live in a mansion and keep a homunculus around. The homunculus escapes and wanders around the house, searching for nekked women. Ultimately he finds a nekked beauty tied to a bed and proceed to lick her nipples and make weird grunting sounds. I haven't seen a puppet sex scene like that since BASKET CASE. Just pathetic. Charles Band should be banned from making any more horror movies. The horror genre was better off without him. I hope he crawls back into whatever hole he was hiding in for the last ten years.