Country: Canada
Year: 2009
Duration: 90'
suck The rock band The Winners are desperately searching for a record contract. During their last tour, Jennifer, the bass player, disappears with an attractive vampire. When she returns, her new sensual look and a set of pointy canines begin to attract the audience’s attention. One after another, the members of the band become mesmerized with immortality and, succumbing to Jennifer’s thirst for blood, turn into vampires as well. An “incident” is organized during a nationwide radio program to consecrate the definitive success of the band. Followed by unscrupulous producers, wild groupies and an eccentric vampire hunter, they discover that sudden fame also has a hidden bad side. “The vampire element comes with having worked in music. You meet people that have been lost to the dark side, you watch the way drugs destroy their lives, and they look like vampires. It’s a metaphor. The vampire is the drug user. Instead of being addicted to heroin, they’re addicted to blood.”
Biography
film director
Rob Stefaniuk
Rob Stefaniuk (Canada, 1971) is an actor, screenwriter and director. His career began in the 1990s with his first appearances in Canadian TV series. In 1994 he wrote his first screenplay, The Size of Watermelons, which was produced and directed two years later by the director Kari Skogland. He debuted as a director in 2003 with the short Waiting for the Man, which competed at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004 he wrote, directed and starred in his first feature film, Phil the Alien, which was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Waiting for the Man (cm, 2003), Phil the Alien (2004), Suck (2009), Down to the Crossroads or How to Make a Movie “Suck” (doc., tv, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Rob Stefaniuk
fotografia/cinematography
D. Gregor Hagey
montaggio/film editing
Michele Conroy
scenografia/production design
Jim Goodall
costumi/costume design
Mario Davignon
musica/music
John Kastner
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Rob Stefaniuk (Joey), Jessica Pare (Jennifer), Dave Foley (Jeff), Mike Lobel (Sam), Paul Antony (Tyler), Chris Ratz (Hugo), Malcom McDowell (Eddie Van Helsing), Iggy Pop (Victor), Alice Cooper (il barista/Bartender), Calico Cooper (la cameriera/Waitress), Moby (Beef Bellows), Henry Rollins (Rockin’ Roger), Dimitri Coats (Queeny), Alex Lifeson (il doganiere/Border Guard), Carole Pope (la manager di un club/Club Manager), Barbara Mamabolo (Danielle)
produttori/producers
Robin Crumely, Jeff Rogers
produzione/production
Capri Visions
coproduttore/coproducer
Victoria Hirst
vendita all’estero/world sales
Joker Films
