I was impressed by this movie, after reading so many reviews saying it wasn't good and after hearing from people who have seen it say it is not good I was expecting it to be just that.
Before I get very far I'm gonna step back a few years. I've been a fan of Full Moon for years, having watched a lot of their movies from the 80's and 90's (Troll, Puppet Master, ReAnimator, Demonic Toys, Dolls and Trancers amongst others). Lately those movies have been put away in their own category in my movie shelf, lol, I am still looking for DVDs of some of them. Anyways, amongst all the bad reviews for Decadent Evil there are some decent/good reviews - but they are hard to find as there are more bad reviews then good.
This movie is about vampires, the first 10 or so minutes is a forward to one of Full Moon's earlier films: Vampire Diaries. There's 3 vampires that it focus's on: Morella (Debra Mayer), the head vampiress and her 2 henchwomen (or vampire slaves or whatever you wanna call them) named Spyce(Raelyn Hennesse) and Sugar (Jill Michelle). Morella is on a quest to become a super vampire - if she drinks 10,000 victims she'll become invincible and she's only 2 victims away when a vampire hunter, excuse me a....mini vampire Van Helsing type guy played by Phil Fondacaro, comes in. He's been looking for Morella for a good number of years and has a grudge against her as she did something to his father when she discovered him in the arms of another woman. He and this guy who turns out to be the good vampiress's boyfriend, Dex (Daniel Lennox), who is the strip clubs DJ (the first part of the movie is set in a strip club, I'm not going to give away too many details but there is some female nudity in this film) go to the mansion that these 3 vampiresses live. Phil (or excuse me, the characters name is Ivan) kills Spyce and is about to kill Sugar when she moves and he sees this 12 inch creature locked away in a birdcage.
The creature in the cage turns out to be a Homunculus, a half reptile/human, whose been caged for a good number of years and has been put through pure hell of seeing Morella and her henchwomen, or woman - Sugar acts as a good vampire while Spyce is a bad vampire (naughty/nice routine), bring in victims (men and women). So he's pretty horny as I recall Ivan (Phil) saying that he had been searching for Morella for 30 years. The creature in the cage turns out to be Ivan's father, he thought Morella had killed him after she had turned him into what he is now but really she had turned him and encaged him and kept him as a pet. After Ivan tries to kill Morella, he has a stake hidden and is about to impale her with it when she grabs it from his hand, he asks her if he can say goodbye to his father, of which she allows him to do.
I'm not going to tell anything more on the plot, don't want to spoil the film anymore - especially the ending! I liked the ending. In all I give the film a 5 out of 10 rating, it was decent. It did have its problems, the lighting especially! In one scene where Morella has Dex on a couch the lighting is extremely bad to where it gets a blurry/fuzzy feel to it and near the beginning the red and blue filtered lighting makes it hard to see what's going on on the stage. I did feel that the beginning forward to Vampire Diaries was a bit too long, like 10 minutes, with the credits it takes about 15 minutes for the movie to start - the movie is 70-74 minutes long. This film was shot in about 6 days with a limited budget, about $6,000 I think it was. Another thing I found that I didn't like was the lighting in some places was dark, too dark in my opinion. Really in some scenes you have a hard time seeing what is going on, a good example is when Ivan (Phil) and Dex (Daniel) first meet at Dex's room. You have a hard time seeing anything as it's so dark, can you say "Dex turn on a lamp"? Sheesh! Besides those problems the film was pretty good, a good watch.
Before I get very far I'm gonna step back a few years. I've been a fan of Full Moon for years, having watched a lot of their movies from the 80's and 90's (Troll, Puppet Master, ReAnimator, Demonic Toys, Dolls and Trancers amongst others). Lately those movies have been put away in their own category in my movie shelf, lol, I am still looking for DVDs of some of them. Anyways, amongst all the bad reviews for Decadent Evil there are some decent/good reviews - but they are hard to find as there are more bad reviews then good.
This movie is about vampires, the first 10 or so minutes is a forward to one of Full Moon's earlier films: Vampire Diaries. There's 3 vampires that it focus's on: Morella (Debra Mayer), the head vampiress and her 2 henchwomen (or vampire slaves or whatever you wanna call them) named Spyce(Raelyn Hennesse) and Sugar (Jill Michelle). Morella is on a quest to become a super vampire - if she drinks 10,000 victims she'll become invincible and she's only 2 victims away when a vampire hunter, excuse me a....mini vampire Van Helsing type guy played by Phil Fondacaro, comes in. He's been looking for Morella for a good number of years and has a grudge against her as she did something to his father when she discovered him in the arms of another woman. He and this guy who turns out to be the good vampiress's boyfriend, Dex (Daniel Lennox), who is the strip clubs DJ (the first part of the movie is set in a strip club, I'm not going to give away too many details but there is some female nudity in this film) go to the mansion that these 3 vampiresses live. Phil (or excuse me, the characters name is Ivan) kills Spyce and is about to kill Sugar when she moves and he sees this 12 inch creature locked away in a birdcage.
The creature in the cage turns out to be a Homunculus, a half reptile/human, whose been caged for a good number of years and has been put through pure hell of seeing Morella and her henchwomen, or woman - Sugar acts as a good vampire while Spyce is a bad vampire (naughty/nice routine), bring in victims (men and women). So he's pretty horny as I recall Ivan (Phil) saying that he had been searching for Morella for 30 years. The creature in the cage turns out to be Ivan's father, he thought Morella had killed him after she had turned him into what he is now but really she had turned him and encaged him and kept him as a pet. After Ivan tries to kill Morella, he has a stake hidden and is about to impale her with it when she grabs it from his hand, he asks her if he can say goodbye to his father, of which she allows him to do.
I'm not going to tell anything more on the plot, don't want to spoil the film anymore - especially the ending! I liked the ending. In all I give the film a 5 out of 10 rating, it was decent. It did have its problems, the lighting especially! In one scene where Morella has Dex on a couch the lighting is extremely bad to where it gets a blurry/fuzzy feel to it and near the beginning the red and blue filtered lighting makes it hard to see what's going on on the stage. I did feel that the beginning forward to Vampire Diaries was a bit too long, like 10 minutes, with the credits it takes about 15 minutes for the movie to start - the movie is 70-74 minutes long. This film was shot in about 6 days with a limited budget, about $6,000 I think it was. Another thing I found that I didn't like was the lighting in some places was dark, too dark in my opinion. Really in some scenes you have a hard time seeing what is going on, a good example is when Ivan (Phil) and Dex (Daniel) first meet at Dex's room. You have a hard time seeing anything as it's so dark, can you say "Dex turn on a lamp"? Sheesh! Besides those problems the film was pretty good, a good watch.
