A
bunch of dorky teens gather at a science fiction convention. Paul (Patrick Delgado) is a meek grocery
store clerk who was recently bitten by a vampire. He thinks the convention will be the perfect
place to blend in while he waits to bite his first potential victim. Paul meets the adorkable Kate (Elaine Hurt)
and they instantly hit it off. When he
leans in for a goodnight kiss, he accidentally bites her on the neck. (Awkward!)
Kate then calls on her geeky friends, who are all fans of horror movies,
to help her find a way to reverse her vampire curse.
My
Sucky Teen Romance makes a lot of easy jokes at Twilight’s expense. It also takes a lot of jabs at geek culture
and the sci-fi convention set. These
aren’t exactly pointed observations to be sure, and they aren’t especially
funny either.
All
of this was done on an obviously low budget with a lot of non-professionals, which
is admirable I guess. However, the
convention scenes suffer from the small budget as it looks more like a birthday
party than a sci-fi convention. The
amateurish special effects also hinder the horror aspects of the story, making
it feel cheap and sloppy. I could’ve
also done without the Scott Pilgrimesque video game sequences.
The
actors do what they can, but they just aren’t quite strong enough to carry the
film. It doesn’t help when they are
stuck playing cliched nerdy characters. Seeing
disgraced Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles turning up as a so-called
vampire expert who calls bloodsuckers “sexy things that are predatory” is a bit
odd too.
Hurt
gets the best line of the movie when she sums up why she can’t talk to
guys: “Bad things happen when I say
words.”
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