Suck (2009)

Suck (2009)

Well, well, well. Colour me surprised. No this isn't pornography. I recorded this solely on the title, expecting something akin to a crappy Wayans' brothers movie, or marginally better/worse (your pick) a Scary Movie crapfest.

Not at all what I expected. This little Canadian flick was actually somewhat enjoyable. I didn't expect it to fall into more of the "indie" category, and truthfully, I am not labeling it as an indie flick, but to be honest it isn't really a musical either. It claims to be a rock & roll comedy, and that is exactly what it is.

The premise is simple enough, a loser band (ironically named the Winners) is trying to make it big but really barely rise above mediocre. One band member (the arguably only x-factor to the band staying together and coincidentally an attractive female) gets seduced by a vampire, and slowly as the body count rises, the band becomes a success. What this film doesn't advertise (given the brief breakdown I read on the PVR) is that this film has iconic artists musical and cinematic alike. We are talking Alice Cooper, Malcolm McDowell, David Foley, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, and the occasional other person folks may notice out the ordinary.


The music in the flick is not done in a random "let's break out into song" camp style, but more-so heavily infused into every part of the flick. And it was actually kind of enjoyable. A lot of it was cover versions of songs that are attributed to the stars above, but even the original songs are enjoyable too. Just don't expect the next Rocky Horror Picture Show.

What about the comedy? Well some of it is silly, but even with the "gore" it is much more innocent than comedy in most movies which strives to be as vile as possible to generate a laugh or two. It obviously doesn't all work, but the heart is there. Rob Stefaniuk who directs and stars in it, shows that this was (like Zombie in the last review) doing something he enjoyed doing. I will say that the French-Canadian Hugo was a consistently funny addition.

Is it scary? No. Not slightly. It's a pretty tame flick. Ah well, all in the spirit of Halloween right?

The good: The heart. The music. The Canadian-ness. And the stop-motion transition scenes. Very cool.

The bad: Well it's silly but fun. A decent flick for free on the movie channel. Don't expect Blade, but it's definitely not as hokey as sparkly vampires.


Final Verdict: A proud little flick. The more I looked into it, I wasn't that surprised to see it won a bunch of awards. It's probably one of the nicest flicks that no one will ever see.


Add to the vault?  Nah. I don't even know if it is on dvd or blue-ray, but I would definitely give it another gander if I saw it on TV again in the future.