Because I am a Libran, and I absolutely abhor making decisions, I took it upon myself to create a random movie generator. That way, with a click of a button, I would be assigned a movie to watch and review for Stinkomovies, thus eliminating the painful process of having to pick one for myself. I have no doubt that this plan will backfire on me one day, and I will have to watch and review something awful, but this time round, I drew Rockabilly Vampire, and well, even though there were a lot of cringe worthy moments, I kinda liked it.

There's usually a reason that Troma decides to distribute a movie that it didn't make. That reason usually is that it's horrible. I really was expecting the worst with this low budget flick - and things started to look even more grim when I saw the name Lee Bennett Sobel about 10 times in the opening credits. He's the writer, director, producer and quite possibly janitor and caterer also.

The story centres around Iris. An Elvis obsessed aspiring writer who is convinced the King still lives and has written a book about it. Unfortunately she isn't having much luck in finding a publisher, but she isn't giving up. But with her rent cheque 3 months late, her dead end job and disastrous love life, things are looking pretty grim for Iris, that is until she crosses paths with a dead ringer for Elvis named Eddie Vincent who's on the run from his deadbeat brother. Not only is Eddie tall, dark, handsome & mysterious, but he's also a vampire.

Eddie has a kind heart, and doesn't want to be a vampire. He was bitten by his older brother Wrecks on his way to an Elvis look-alike contest in the 50's and has been drinking blood ever since. He lives life on the run, constantly looking for a cure, and trying to stay one step ahead of his no good brother - if he bites him once more, he'll be under his control forever.

Iris starts to fall in love with Eddie and decides that she'll do anything she can to help him, including feeding him unwanted boyfriends and holding up the local blood bank. But it isn't long before Wrecks and his pals catch up with Iris, knowing that Eddie can't be too far away also.

Can Iris and Eddie stop Wrecks, find a cure, pay the rent AND sell Iris's book...all in the space of 90 minutes? Seems like the chips are stacked against our heroes.

This was a great idea for a movie that was sadly marred by bad lighting, bad sound, some terrible dialogue and bad casting for the lead female. I found Iris to be neurotic and unbelievable in her role. I also think she looked all wrong for the part. Flip-do and jewel rimmed glasses do not a rockabilly chick make. On the opposite side, casting for Eddie and Wrecks could not have been more perfect. I think they were both excellent actors tackling some cheesy dialogue and pulled it off well. Special mention to Beetleboy/Lorenzo for being awesomely ridiculous.

I found the scenes at Iris' work to be kinda boring and redundant. Most of the time, I didn't feel they really made much sense, for example, if I was hiding the vampire of my dreams in my apartment whose life was in danger from his evil brother, I wouldn't be blabbing to my workmate. A lot of the scenes were quite poorly lit, and the camera was usually stationary in a front on angle. These factors may be due to budget constraints, but I honestly think that with a bigger budget and a more thought through script this movie really could have shown off its full potential.

The other thing besides Eddie and Wrecks that couldn't be faulted was the music. Absolutely brilliant. Overall, I would say this movie is definitely worth a watch, regarding you can see it for what it had the potential to be. It still may surprise us and become a cult classic. You can just never tell with these things.