Bloodsucking Bastards (2015) – Movie Review

<p>I&comma; like a lot of people&comma; tend to watch a movie that I don&&num;8217&semi;t know anything about based on certain things like who&&num;8217&semi;s in the cast&comma; the director or because of the films subject matter &lpar;based on a book etc&rpar;&period; I mention this because that&&num;8217&semi;s the only reason I watched this one&period; I had previously caught Fran Kranz in a movie called <em>Cabin in the Woods<&sol;em> &lpar;2011&rpar; and really liked his performance&period; So&comma; when I caught word of his next project&comma; <em>Blood Sucking Bastards<&sol;em> &lpar;2015&rpar;&comma; I figured I&&num;8217&semi;d check it out&period; Then I saw the poster for the movie and it had a guy holding a blood-covered coffee cup with the tagline &&num;8220&semi;Work&period; It sucks the life out of you&period;&&num;8221&semi; my curiosity was firmly hooked&period; As it turns out&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m glad I decided to catch it because I would have missed out on a pretty cool flick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;135660" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-135660" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-135660 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;20160210&sol;Bloodsucking-Bastards-still-1-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-135660" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Bloodsucking Bastards&comma; Fortress Features<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Bloodsucking Bastards<&sol;em> is a comedy&sol;horror with an eighty-six-minute runtime&period; It was directed by Brian James O&&num;8217&semi;Connell and written by Dr&period; God and Ryan Mitts&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s rated UR &lpar;unrated&rpar; but has language and violence&period; The story is about a guy named Evan who works a nine to five in an office building and recently&comma; kind of&comma; broke up with his girlfriend Amanda&period; Working every day with his ex-girlfriend and getting passed over for a promotion&comma; how could things get any worse&quest; How about adding some&&num;8230&semi; vampires to the mix&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; before we get too far into the review I&&num;8217&semi;m sure a few of you took a second look when you saw Dr&period;  God as one of the writers&comma; least I did&period; So&comma; I got curious and looked into who Dr&period; God was&period; Come to find out&comma; Dr&period; God is a five-man comedy group based out of Los Angeles that&&num;8217&semi;s made up by Sean Cowhig&comma; Neil Garguilo&comma; Brian James O&&num;8217&semi;Connell&comma; David Park&comma; and Justin Ware&period; Apparently&comma; as a group or individually&comma; Dr&period; God has created stuff for Relativity Media&comma; Cartoon Network&comma; and FOX to name a few&period; As performers&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ve appeared on Comedy Central&comma; MTV and quite a few other places&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;135661" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-135661" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-135661 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;20160310&sol;Bloodsucking-Bastards-still-2-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-135661" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Bloodsucking Bastards&comma; Fortress Features<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I loved the idea of the story&comma; throwing vampires into a workspace&comma; and I liked that they went the comical route with it&period; We have so many run for your life vampires are attacking flicks out already&comma; that it was nice to see something different&period; I gotta say&comma; I really dug the writing in this one&period; The script is full of wit and humor&period; Yeah&comma; there are some low brow jokes scattered throughout the movie&comma; but for the most the jokes are witty&period; By no means is this a serious vampire movie&period; The writers just took a great idea of work-life sucking and threw in a twist&period; I read this one described as <em>&&num;8220&semi;The Office meets Shaun of the Dead&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> and I think it&&num;8217&semi;s spot on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The playthrough was really entertaining&period; Between the story and the cast&comma; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t stop laughing as everything played out&period; Yeah&comma; things go a bit overboard at times with the cheese&comma; but that actually adds value to the movie and what makes it so enjoyable&period; It was almost like watching the movie Office Space &lpar;1999&rpar;&comma; but with vampires&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the cast is Fran Kranz &lpar;<em>Cabin in the Woods<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Emma Fitzpatrick &lpar;<em>The Collection<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Joey Kern &lpar;<em>Super Troopers<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Justin Ware &lpar;<em>Deerskin Lake<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Neil W&period; Garguilo &lpar;<em>Bloodsucking Bastards<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; David F&period; Park &lpar;<em>Deerskin Lake<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Marshall Givens &lpar;<em>Bloodsucking Bastards<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Joel Murray &lpar;<em>God Bless America<&sol;em>&rpar; and Pedro Pascal &lpar;<em>Kingsman&colon; The Golden Circle<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; Liked I said&comma; I watched it because of Fitzpatrick&comma; but the rest of the cast quickly won me over as well&period; I thought everyone had great timing and delivery when it came to their lines&period; This was the first time I had seen Garguilo&comma; Park&comma; and Ware&comma; from Dr&period; God&comma; do any acting&comma; but the guys were really good and I&&num;8217&semi;m looking forward to watching more of their movies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;135662" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-135662" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-135662 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;20160401&sol;Bloodsucking-Bastards-still-3-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-135662" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Bloodsucking Bastards&comma; Fortress Features<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Since it&&num;8217&semi;s a vampire movie be prepared to see some gore&period; Most of the time it&&num;8217&semi;s just buckets of blood that fill the scenes&comma; but every now and then you&&num;8217&semi;ll see some people get ripped into&period; Since I&&num;8217&semi;m talking about all the blood&comma; the special effects looked good and I liked that practical effects were used&comma; but keep in mind it&&num;8217&semi;s a low budget flick so don&&num;8217&semi;t expect high budget effects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Side note&colon; The film was limited released in September 2015&comma; and through VOD &lpar;video on demand&rpar;&period; So&comma; while it&&num;8217&semi;s had some time to float around and find an audience it&&num;8217&semi;s not had the big push a lot of other films have had&period; Basically&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re not looking for the movie&comma; most likely&&num;8230&semi; you wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t even know it&&num;8217&semi;s out there&comma; which makes this one a bit of a hidden gem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; it has tons of humor and over the top blood filled scenes as the living try to fight off the dead&comma; which makes this one worth checking out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;