Review of Rockula

Rockula (1990)
4/10
Good way to kill an afternoon.
14 July 2010
Recently saw this on cable, kind of a time-capsule of late 80's cheese. It's not a great movie by any means, I had to fast-forward all the musical sequences except Toni Basil's. She is great in this, by the way- love her costumes, and her dancing.

The main character is a lameass virgin vampire, who's fated to keep meeting his murdered lover over and over again until he stops her from getting killed with a hambone by a pirate. Stupid, but the pirate is played by Thomas Dolby, who also has a couple of good moments. I liked his holistic cemetery commercial, with the coin-operated flowers and coffin-on-a-spit so you can roll in your grave.

What else... Mona, the big-haired heroine of the story has a really hot dorky friend with cats-eye glasses and a pageboy haircut. So if you like gothy girls, heads up.
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