Verdict
Summary
From Charles Band and Full Moon, the 74-minute Decadent Evil starts off with a recap of events that happened in another Full Moon movie called Vampire Journals, which tries to explain the plot of this movie, but that whole sequence is entirely unnecessary and only serves to help this movie stretch out to a feature length. As it stands, this movie feels a little light on the bone, and even with its little puppet stuff (there’s not much of it), the movie doesn’t quite work.
Plot:
A vampire queen culls souls who patronize a strip club.
Review:
Morella (Debra Mayer) is an ancient vampire who, over time, has devoured nearly 10,000 souls. Within the week, she’ll have met a quota that will make her the queen of all vampires, but first her sexy minions – Sugar (Jill Michelle) and Spyce (Raelyn Hennessee) – who work at a strip club need to bring her a few more unsuspecting people into her mansion so that she can drink her fill. When Dex (Daniel Lennox), Sugar’s human boyfriend, is approached by a shady private investigator-type of detective named Ivan (Phil Fondacaro), who channels Philip Marlowe by way of Van Helsing with his fedora and bag of wooden stakes and holy water, Dex is told that Sugar is a vampire (news to him!) and that her master is Morella, Ivan’s arch nemesis and the one who is to blame for his being an orphan when his father Marvin disappeared 30 years ago when hunting her. With Dex’s help, Ivan gets to infiltrate Morella’s mansion (because Sugar has access to it), and Ivan stakes Spyce through the heart, but when he tries to do the same to the much craftier Morella, he’s captured. And that’s when the big reveal happens: Ivan is stunned when he finds out that instead of simply killing his father Marvin all those years ago, she turned him into a “homunculus” creature, kept in a cage. Little Marvin is a grotesque and very horny little bugger who – if let out to play – will sexually assault anything that moves. Just before Morella kills (no spoiler) Ivan, Marvin pulls a fast one on Morella and turns her into a homunculus, just one soul shy of her quota!
From Charles Band and Full Moon, the 74-minute Decadent Evil starts off with a recap of events that happened in another Full Moon movie called Vampire Journals, which tries to explain the plot of this movie, but that whole sequence is entirely unnecessary and only serves to help this movie stretch out to a feature length. As it stands, this movie feels a little light on the bone, and even with its little puppet stuff (there’s not much of it), the movie doesn’t quite work. The last moment of the movie almost derails what came before it (hint: It involves puppet rape), but if you’re a fan of Full Moon and the Charles Band oeuvre, you might enjoy this more than anyone else.
Full Moon’s new Blu-ray of Decadent Evil arrives for the first time on high definition in widescreen from the original camera negative, looking crisp and clean. The disc comes with the trailer, a behind the scenes video, a blooper reel, and bonus trailers.
