As you might suspect from the title Vampires Suck, this 2010 movie is a parody of this new-found teenage vampire genre. Or it ought to have been.
Instead it is Twilight with "jokes" in the various scenes. Having only watched the first two Twilight films and never read any of the books, my knowledge of the specific details in the series is spotty. However I did recognize that the first 5-10 scenes (at the beginning of the "flashback") are exactly the same as the first Twilight film...except with supposed jokes and goofiness. The rest of the film pretty much follows the same format.
This is a massive tragedy as this teenage(-girl) vampire genre has exploded in the last few years. While most of these stories lack any semblance of characterizations or rationality, they often have the exact same set-up (Twilight: teenage schoolgirl "falls in love" with a few-hundred-year-old vampire; True Blood: teenage waitress, with a korean prostitute's name, "falls in love" with a few-hundred-year-old vampire; Vampire Diaries: teenage schoolgirl "falls in love" with a few-hundred-year-old vampire [hell even the original, Buffy TVS was about a teenage schoolgirl who falls in love with a few-hundred-year-old vampire]). Vampires Suck chose to parody ONLY Twilight, by re-hashing the same plot as Twilight. This lacks imagination, creativity, and hell, humor too. This idea, teenage(-girl) vampire genre parody, has so much potential, and they just blew it.
Ultimately it was a waste of time. I do not recommend this to anyone.
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