What a gay movie. Literally. Story of a young gay couple backpacking across America who get picked up by a bumpkin truck driver who may or may not have the same phallic tendencies.
The movie is pretty low budget and the director really has no idea what he's doing. The pacing is horrendous, scenes take much longer than they need to, and the dialog is stilted. There are some funny lines, but mainly the first 40 minutes is just sort of there. At this point it sort of devolves into a bad Halloween episode of Will And Grace with an insistence on social references and zingers. Now some of it is funny, but the sheer amount of jokes reaches a point of diminishing returns and it just gets tiresome.
While the film looks decent enough, the technical aspects, blocking, editing etc, are pretty bad. All of this could be forgiven if the film ever seemed like it was about something, but it doesn't. Two gay dudes pick up another gay dude and get attacked by vampires, that's the synopsis, but it doesn't get much deeper than that, even though I think at points it tries to get philosophical about being true to yourself and coming out of the closet. The script is so muddled and all over the place that it doesn't really build to anything, it just continues till it ends, if that makes any sense.
Minor cheese value, but not enough to really recommend, even on that level. Bite marks doesn't even break the skin.
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