Decadent Evil

" Decadent Evil "

"As Reported by Dollyforme"

A total hottie Jill Michelle stars in this Vampire flick – called decadent Evil. Supposedly a sequel to “The Vampire Journals” considered by many to be the best Vampire movie of all time. First of all, I enjoyed it, although it is really terrible. It does have hot babes, violence and lots of blood sucking, but it is a terrible movie. Low Low Low budget and all that. The movie was done by Charles Band, a B-movie schlock-slinger whose work I've (almost) always admired, was back with a new company -- this one called "Wizard Entertainment." And, desperate horror geek that I am, I found myself just a little bit happy to welcome Charles back.
Producer / director of some of the 1980s and '90s finest cinematic junk-piles, Mr. Band had a hand in titles such as Parasite, Rawhead Rex,Eliminators, Troll, Shrunken Heads, Doctor Mordrid, and a huge, smelly pile of others. This is the guy who brought you four Ghouliesadventures, six Trancers treks, four visits with the Subspecies, and no less than ten Puppet Master masterworks.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Assault of the Killer Bimbos, and Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 -- they've all got the name of Charles Band stamped all over 'em.
So obviously I was pretty geeked to sit down and enjoy Decadent Evil, which is Mr. Band's return to the director's chair and the flagship title of the "Wizard Entertainment" banner.
And it sucked. I did like it however, but it did suck.
Understand that I don't mean it sucked in a good way, like most of the aforementioned movies do. No, Decadent Evil sucks the old-fashioned way. It is as low budget as you can get a movie. Cobbled together using several sections of Mr. Band's earlier movies, Decadent Evil is about a group of lady vampires who kill a few folks and keep a goofy, goopy "homonuculus" trapped in a cage at home. (It's some sort of half-human / half-reptile, according to the DVD, that was once a handsome vampire-lover dude who got morphed into what now looks like a dog-snot-covered Cabbage Patch Kid that someone fished out of a sewer.)
So this trio of vampiric vixens manage a night club so as to harvest blood. And then there's that freaky puppet-thing in the cage that rambles and raves and even earns its very own sex scene. Ew.
If Mr. Band was hoping to hop back into the horror scene and dazzle a whole new generation of genre geeks with his patented brand of low-grade cheese-fests, well, he sure as hell failed on the first try. Decadent Evil is as irrepressibly dingy and dull as it is ineptly constructed. I understand what a low budget can do to a horror flick, but Decadent Evil looks like the work of a first-timer ... but Charles Band has produced over 250 movies in his career. Granted, most of 'em are pretty darn goofy, but nearly all of them look a hell of a lot better than this chintzy little toss-off.
Should you watch it? Oh sure – the women are stunning and it is full of Vampire goodness. Just be OK with a budget of about 5K and a running time of 65 minutes.
As usual, I got it out of Redbox for a buck, so I was happy – buy it for $14.99 – maybe not.