The writer succumbs to coprophilia (3/16/01)
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American Vampire. [Luis Esteban, 2000.]
A movie which intends to be
Beach Blanket Bloodsucker, but falls somewhat short: a surfer dude’s vacationing parents leave him the beach house for the summer, but his progress toward the Endless Party is arrested by a seeming chance encounter with a magnetic but peculiar individual averse to light and garlic named Erich Von Zipper [aka Moondoggie], whose cadaverous posse takes over the household; only the intervention of The Big Kahuna [played by the venerable Adam West] can save our hero from the endless night. — Though the authors open strong with a cameo by Dick Dale and the Deltones, the flick needs more beach, more bands, and [the presence of Carmen Electra notwithstanding] more babes: even a casual glance at the old AIP epics will reveal they had amazing depth at the skill positions.
____________Stars and bars (3/2/01)
