Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Rockula (1990)

How bad is it? It's high camp. Pretty good high camp.
Should you see it? Yes, but because it's good, not because it's bad.

I'm not sure why this cult B-movie has developed a bad movie reputation. It's a silly musical comedy about a 300 year-old virgin vampire who, every 22 years on Friday the 13th, meets the woman he loves again, only to lose her, via a curse, to a pirate with a rhinestone peg leg wielding a ham bone. The songs aren't half-bad, written by Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO. The cast really is why people will watch this: Susan Tyrell, Bo Diddley, Thomas Dolby and Toni Basil (who steals the show).

"Rapula" is worse.

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