Suck

Suck

Suck

Cast: Rob Stefaniuk, Jessica Paré, Malcolm McDowell, Dave Foley, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Moby, Henry Rollins, Alex Lifeson, Dimitri Coats, Calico Cooper, Carole Pope

A rock’n’roll vampire spoof about a down and out band, The Winners, who will do anything for a record deal. When their disgruntled manager (Dave Foley) tells them that they are getting “long in the tooth”, he doesn’t know that his words are truly prophetic. During a road trip, their humdrum image radically changes when Jennifer (Jessica Paré), the bass player, disappears one night with a hip vampire (Dimitri Coats). She emerges with a sexually charged charisma that drives the audiences wild.

As the band members succumb, one by one, to blood lust, their “gimmick” launches them into the limelight. Following an “incident” on a national radio show with “Rock’n Roger” (Henry Rollins), they hit mega-stardom beyond their wildest dreams. Joey (Rob Stefaniuk), the lead singer, is haunted by an eerie bartender (Alice Cooper), who turns out to be much more. Meanwhile, legendary vampire hunter, Eddie Van Helsig (Malcolm McDowell), is tracking them down, despite his fear of the dark. When a veteran music producer (Iggy Pop) calls them on becoming a vampire freak show, they begin to realize that fame is not what it’s cracked up to be.

Suck is a wild ride down a highway to hell, with a killer soundtrack that includes Iggy Pop’s, “TVeye” and “Success”; Alice Cooper’s, “I am a Spider”; Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Nuthin”; David Bowie’s, “Here Comes the Night” and The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”.

Cast list:

ALICE COOPER

plays the ominous BARTENDER who haunts Joey, the lead singer of The Winners. Cooper pioneered a grandly theatrical brand of hard rock that was designed to shock. Drawing equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock, the group created a stage show that featured electric chairs, guillotines, fake blood and boa constrictors. He continues to tour regularly, performing shows worldwide with the dark and horror-themed theatrics for which he’s best known. With his influence on rock’ n’ roll long since acknowledged, there is little that Alice Cooper hasn’t achieved in his remarkable career, including platinum albums, sold-out tours and any number of honors and career achievement awards.

ROB STEFANIUK

plays JOEY, the lead singer and driving force in The Winners band. Suck marks Stefaniuk’s second feature film which he wrote, stars in and directs in addition to co-writing the music and lyrics for seven of the songs. He wrote, directed, starred and wrote some of the soundtrack for his first feature film, Phil the Alien, a comedy about an alien and a beaver. An actor since 1990, and a musician for even longer, Rob has worked in numerous television shows appearing as both guest lead and series regular. Stefaniuk was also named the winner of the “Don Haig Encouragement Fund” for promising new filmmaker

MIKE LOBEL

plays SAM, the drummer in The Winners band. One of Lobel’s most notable performances is his portrayal of Jay Hogart, a manipulative school bully on Degrassi: The Next Generation, an immensely popular teenage drama series which airs on CTV in Canada, and originated on the CBC. In 2003 Lobel made his film debut in an adaptation of Oliver Twist directed by Jacob Tierney entitled Twist in which he played a small role as a street thug alongside actor Nick Stahl

MALCOLM McDOWELL

plays EDDIE VAN HELSIG, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark. Arguably amongst the most dynamic and inventive of world-class actors, yet one also capable of immense charm, humor and poignancy, Malcolm McDowell has created a gallery of iconographic characters since catapulting to the screen as “Mick Travis”, the rebellious upperclassman, in Lindsay Anderson’s prize-winning sensation, IF…, and making his place in movie history as the gleefully amoral “Alex” in A Clockwork Orange

MOBY

plays BEEF BELLOWS, the lead singer of The Secretaries of Steak. Moby has been making music since he was 9 years old, playing the classical guitar. He started dj’ing after leaving college, and was a fixture in the late 80’s New York house and hip-hop scenes. He released his first single ‘Go’ in 1991 (listed as one of Rolling Stones best records of all time), and has been making albums ever since. He has toured tirelessly, playing well over 3,000 concerts in his career, and has also had his music used in hundreds of different films, including Heat, Any Given Sunday, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The Beach, among others.

JESSICA PARÉ

plays JENNIFER, the bass player whose transformation into a vampire propels The Winners band into the limelight. After living in Los Angeles for several years, Jessica returned to her native Canada to star in back-to-back projects. Paré got her start when she was handpicked by Denys Arcand to star in his celebrity satire, Stardom¸ as a young beauty plucked from a small-town and launched into international superstardom. Since that auspicious debut, she has appeared in a variety of films, series and mini-series, throughout Europe, Canada, and the U.S