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Decadent Evil. USA 2005. Directed by Charles Band

Morella, an astonishingly beautiful but 100-year old vampire keeps little evil homunculus called Marvin locked up in a bird cage. Morella and her vampire strippers Sugar and Spyce seduce men from the strip club Meat Market, and take them home for a night snack. This is how Morella can come the queen of all vampires. But there's two men slowing down their plan - wanna-be human girl Sugar's boyfriend and Marvin's son Ivan, three-foot tall vampire killer!

A prolific low-budget filmmaker and producer Charles Band is back in film direction - and with the film he and his crew shot in six days! This unfortunately can be seen in lack of variety when it comes to locations and in the script, that could have more depth - although this is a horror comedy with a refreshing bad taste. But hey, Decadent Evil doesn't even try to be serious and it clearly has one main mission: to entertain. And it does that pretty well. For gore hounds there, this film has a lot of blood squirting out from the holes in throat of beautiful people. In the end, there's three B's that can make a good entertainer : blood, babes and bad taste.

The actors and actresses deliver nothing special. but there are two exceptions too : Debra Mayer as Morella and Phil Mondacaro as Ivan. Both have some confidence in acting work, when rest of the cast seem to need some more experience to it. I am sure many people are going to dislike Decadent Evil, but it is their loss. Of course, I would like to see more ambitious projects from Band, since this film feels like a nice snack compared to some of his previous films during the 90's Full Moon era. Despite before-mentioned faults, Decadent Evil keeps you happy to the very end. Speaking of witch, the ending could be from the mind of teenage boy. But no, it is from the mind of Charles Band - notorius 54 year old filmmaker who may not grow up ever. Luckily, for us.

Wizard Entertainment's DVD release has some nice behind the scenes -material in "Blood, Sweat and Tears" -documentary. "Message from Charles Band" contains interesting information about Wizard Entertainment and the films the company will release. The picture quality is reasonable and DD 2.0 audio channels is clear enough to make dialog sound crisp.