Vampire Burt's Serenade

This movie is crazy insane. Loved it right off the bat. So much manic energy throughout. Really good music and score. Had a smile on for the entire runtime.

The performances are all really good and they can sing, plus the songs are pretty damn catchy! There's a massacre/fight scene at the end with plenty of blood , freeze frames and glitter. It has some drastic tonal shifts throughout... but handles them very well. It wouldn't work, without the total commitment of the cast, but commuted they are and probably were after this.

Director-writer Ken Roht's "Vampire Burt's Serenade" channels the spirits of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," then heaps on delightful mounds of cheese and camp on a scale equal to Roger Corman films. This raunchy, bloody movie is culled from a live theater presentation -- an idea that acquits itself as near-genius by the time the credits roll, as "Vampire Burt's Serenade" proves to be aspirational, grass-roots filmmaking of the highest order.

Burt himself is handled by Kevin Scott Richardson, apparently a Backstreet Boy of note in a past or current life. Here he's unshackled from those conventions, and Really Rather Great as a power-wielding district manager of all area vampires. On one impulsive evening, he tears into the neck of pal Todd (Brandon Heitkamp), vampirizing the hell out of him. Todd then turns stripper girlfriend Connie (Diva Zappa) into a bloodsucker, and one who prove well up for it all. But their non-vamp friends are less enthralled, and deem it necessary to sort out Vampire Burt by way of a contracted vampire hunter (Kenneth Hughes).

Backed by a warhead payload of terrifically whimsical original songs, "Vampire Burt's Serenade" is an elevated diversion in a time when elevated diversions are mission critical. Recommended and then some. - (Was this review of use to you? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful." Cheers!)

You won't believe what you're watching most of the time, and for that reason, it's completely worth your time. A bizarre combination of musical, camp, vampires and rock and roll, Vampire Burt's Serenade is absolutely incredible in every sense of the word. Kevin Richardson gives a truly mesmerizing performance and his dedication to his character is honestly, award worthy. If you're looking for a film to distract you from literally anything: This is it.

If you love cheesy B horror comedy in the vein of Rocky Horror Picture Show, you'll get a kick out of this! I'm going to add it to my Halloween collection of films to see yearly!

Hard to know what to say about "Vampire Burt's Serenade" - it is weird and wonderful and ridiculous and campy. It clearly did not feature the world's largest special-effect budget - but it kinda doesn't matter. This film is not to be taken seriously, it is to be enjoyed.