Bill, a horror fan, spots a UFO carrying a vampire-like alien who wants to envelop Earth in darkness to colonize it. He teams up with SETI to stop the alien's plan and keep the Sun shining.Bill, a horror fan, spots a UFO carrying a vampire-like alien who wants to envelop Earth in darkness to colonize it. He teams up with SETI to stop the alien's plan and keep the Sun shining.Bill, a horror fan, spots a UFO carrying a vampire-like alien who wants to envelop Earth in darkness to colonize it. He teams up with SETI to stop the alien's plan and keep the Sun shining.
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Teenage Space Vampires, in my opinion, is a boring, godawful slog. Cheesy plot, cheesy costumes, cheesy fake teeth, cheesy '90s CGI, cheesy obvious ADR.
This might, *might* have been at least entertainingly bad if only the characters in it had any semblance of a personality. Just about every character in this movie is more or less a pile of gray mush stacked high and dressed in stereotypical '90s garb, even the main characters-ESPECIALLY the main characters. I can barely remember their names, let alone any of their defining traits outside of one of them having horrible bleached hair.
The only thing close to an honest-to-goodness character that this movie has is a grumpy middle-aged neighbor lady with a thick Romanian accent. She's bugged 'cause her paper never gets delivered on time. She looks like Nathan Lane in drag and she sounds like Maria Ouspenskaya on Quaaludes. You can't miss her. And when she's not on screen, you won't.
Now, I am not averse to wasting my time on crappy movies. Crappy movies sometimes have some redeeming value. This movie had none. It has nothing, period. I couldn't even get angry at it, it was so bland. I hate it because there's nothing good enough in it to like and nothing bad enough in it to either bemuse or offend me.
This movie has no worth to me. It's not even worth a proper, well-thought-out review. All it deserves is this: pbbbbbt! I want the time I wasted on this movie back, damn it!
This might, *might* have been at least entertainingly bad if only the characters in it had any semblance of a personality. Just about every character in this movie is more or less a pile of gray mush stacked high and dressed in stereotypical '90s garb, even the main characters-ESPECIALLY the main characters. I can barely remember their names, let alone any of their defining traits outside of one of them having horrible bleached hair.
The only thing close to an honest-to-goodness character that this movie has is a grumpy middle-aged neighbor lady with a thick Romanian accent. She's bugged 'cause her paper never gets delivered on time. She looks like Nathan Lane in drag and she sounds like Maria Ouspenskaya on Quaaludes. You can't miss her. And when she's not on screen, you won't.
Now, I am not averse to wasting my time on crappy movies. Crappy movies sometimes have some redeeming value. This movie had none. It has nothing, period. I couldn't even get angry at it, it was so bland. I hate it because there's nothing good enough in it to like and nothing bad enough in it to either bemuse or offend me.
This movie has no worth to me. It's not even worth a proper, well-thought-out review. All it deserves is this: pbbbbbt! I want the time I wasted on this movie back, damn it!
This movie is simply and purely an hour and a half too long. The only thing that saved this movie from being a total bomb was Devin Crannell and Lindy Booth. They were extremely talented, but some bits were a little bit more of an improvisation. The movie is really bad so unless you want to kill 90 minutes on a day when there's NOTHING (can't stress that enough) to do, I would watch it.
This is a movie that was probably made to entertain the middle school, early high school age kids. Maybe to them it's funny, they may possibly even see something scary in it. To me, the acting is poor, and plot is poor, there's just not much value at all for the adult viewer. I saw this film as weak and boring. At times there was the possibility that the movie could become interesting but it never really materialized. The creatures look pretty good but after seeing them for a few seconds, they don't seem to have any substance other than the look. At times I wasn't sure if the movie was trying to make another attempt at comedy or was it just another attempt at horror that failed again. This movie just wasn't good for me.
You are looking for a movie, maybe something cheesy and fun to watch. You see the title Teenage Space Vampires and you nod approvingly to yourself. You know it is going to be cheesy, probably some good gore and some nudity too! Well, you would be wrong on almost all accounts as never has a more bland vampire movie been made before as those Dracula flicks of the 50's had more blood! About the only thing we get here is a passable main vampire monster which takes forever to show up as do most of the vampires!
The story, well imagine if you took the Tobe Hooper visionary film Lifeforce, combined it with the very good horror comedy Fright Night and then kind of puked on them and then you cleaned it up and put it in a toilet that someone had just wrecked! Well you would get this movie that is trying to combine space and vampires and comedy but does so horribly! Billy sees an object and thinks it's a UFO, strange things happen and a soccer game plays a prominent role and at some point space vampires do show up...
Well, there is one thing even worse in this film than the story, the effects and the lack of anything interesting going on and that is some of the actors. I began to wonder if may Billy's parents were aliens as they did not act like any human I have witnessed before and his friend was pretty bad too, though it is nice to see one half of the Proclaimers working after their one hit.
So, you get a whole lot of nothing in this one for the most part as I believe this film is the only vampire film to ever be blood free! I mean, if you make a good story you do not have to have a total gore movie complete with lots of nudity, but the story in this one is not good and it does not chug along at a good pace either. I mean, you get to see two guys in a library looking up stuff to determine sunlight is the way to hurt a vampire...
The story, well imagine if you took the Tobe Hooper visionary film Lifeforce, combined it with the very good horror comedy Fright Night and then kind of puked on them and then you cleaned it up and put it in a toilet that someone had just wrecked! Well you would get this movie that is trying to combine space and vampires and comedy but does so horribly! Billy sees an object and thinks it's a UFO, strange things happen and a soccer game plays a prominent role and at some point space vampires do show up...
Well, there is one thing even worse in this film than the story, the effects and the lack of anything interesting going on and that is some of the actors. I began to wonder if may Billy's parents were aliens as they did not act like any human I have witnessed before and his friend was pretty bad too, though it is nice to see one half of the Proclaimers working after their one hit.
So, you get a whole lot of nothing in this one for the most part as I believe this film is the only vampire film to ever be blood free! I mean, if you make a good story you do not have to have a total gore movie complete with lots of nudity, but the story in this one is not good and it does not chug along at a good pace either. I mean, you get to see two guys in a library looking up stuff to determine sunlight is the way to hurt a vampire...
Classic Full Moon trash. It's like Lifeforce meets Independence Day meets Dazed and Confused. Vampire aliens want to shut off the sun, or something, and it's up to our band of worthless high schoolers who look like they're in their early 30s to stop this nefarious scheme. I'm only giving it 6 stars for audacity. The production quality is exactly what it deserves to be (mediocre) and it doesn't really accomplish anything over the course of the plot. The alien/vampire monsters looked...OK? I dunno. They had decent makeup and costumes, so that's good. This may have been one of the last classic Full Moon movies. I had a hard time finding this because the version I watched was under the title Darkness, for some reason.
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- TriviaRiffed for Rifftrax by MST3K alums Bridget Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl.
- GoofsWhen Billy and the SETI-team are at the UFO, Billy picks up his bag of newspapers to take with him. When he eventually leaves, he does not have the bag with him.
- ConnectionsEdited into Cosmic Chronicles (2022)
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