My review was written in June 1990 after watching the film on Warner/Cannon video cassette.
Music is welded to the horror genre for the umpteenth time with poor results in "Rockula", a marginal Cannon picture that went into release in February and recently played briefly on 42nd St. In Manhattan.
More likely to find its audience among video fans, pic limns the uninteresting story of 400-year-old virgin vampire Dean Cameron, who every 22 years has been fated to meet his dream girl (Tawny Fere), only to lose her sans consummation when an evil pirate kills her each time on Halloween.
Numerous songs and music video-styled interludes pad the running time of this innocuous exercise, which could have used a much stronger storyline.
Several music industry personalities pop up, notably Toni Basil as Cameron's sexy vampire mother and Thomas Dolby as an English twit. Fere, previously unveiled in "Angel III", is most alluring as the heroine and belts a rock song well.
Music is welded to the horror genre for the umpteenth time with poor results in "Rockula", a marginal Cannon picture that went into release in February and recently played briefly on 42nd St. In Manhattan.
More likely to find its audience among video fans, pic limns the uninteresting story of 400-year-old virgin vampire Dean Cameron, who every 22 years has been fated to meet his dream girl (Tawny Fere), only to lose her sans consummation when an evil pirate kills her each time on Halloween.
Numerous songs and music video-styled interludes pad the running time of this innocuous exercise, which could have used a much stronger storyline.
Several music industry personalities pop up, notably Toni Basil as Cameron's sexy vampire mother and Thomas Dolby as an English twit. Fere, previously unveiled in "Angel III", is most alluring as the heroine and belts a rock song well.