There are times when I will be sitting around waiting for something and I’ll open my Amazon app and do a search for musical DVDs looking for something I haven’t seen before or a new addition to the collection. There are times I discover a new favorite that I otherwise would not have looked at had I not taken a risk on an unknown musical and there are times I regret it. This is one of the later decisions, on the jacket for the DVD it was described as High School Musical meets Twilight, the concept yes is a mash up of the two, however the actual movie is take the worst things about those two movies and add music.
One of the first noticeable aspects of this movie musical (term loosely used) is that it has a low production value and that is probably because this started out a web series on iTunes which then someone had the idea of let’s turn it into a film. Directed by Chris Nolan (Notice Chris not Christopher) this is the only feature credit he has on IMDB outside of shorts and a couple TV episodes, outside of the set design (I get it they had a low budget) the decision to consistently have the actors directly singing into the camera for me took me out of the movie musical. You have Lucas Grabeel coming off the High School Musical movies and Drew Seeley who was the singing voice for Zac Efron in the first High School Musical, two guys that had been through this sort of thing before, I think just with bad directing decisions and songs that feel like a pop song generator spit them out it just did not work, you can see they are trying which is probably this movies biggest fault is it is trying to take itself serious as a rock musical about vampires, the story is corny and the story by Laurie Nolan makes Twilight look like a Pulitzer prize winning novel, had it embraced the silliness of what it was and had it of taken an approach at satirizing High School Musical and Twilight it might have been better. When this movie came out its riding the wave of those two movies which I do not know having watched this back then when paranormal-romance was all the rage maybe it would have been better perhaps it is a product of that time for teens. F.
Q: When did this movie come out?
A: March 30, 2012
Q: What is the story about?
A: [Spoiler Alert] We first meet Dylan (Lucas Grabeel) at his para-psychologist (Lori Lively) office where she happens to wear a neck brace because of the clientele that she helps. Through his dialogue with her we discover that Dylan was bit by a vampire at school and he is in therapy because he does not know what to do with his girlfriend, Sara (Adrian Slade) who does not know he is a vampire and he does not want to make her a vampire. Trying to come to terms with how to be with the love of his high school life becomes difficult when a rocker vampire named Trey Sylvania (Drew Seeley) starts to make his advances on Sara. It is then a competition for the girl and who will she ultimately choose.
Q: I have never heard of this should I watch it?
A: Nope! I just saved 91 minutes of your life, your welcome.
Q: Who wrote the music?
A: The music is written by Frankie Blue with lyrics by Frankie Blue and Chris Nolan
Q: Did this movie release to movie theaters:
A: Evidently it did, on IMDB the box office opening weekend gross was $1,380 with a world wide cumulative gross of $1,794
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