Vampires Suck
Here’s a feature-style look at the 2010 parody film : “Vampires Suck”: When the Twilight Craze Got the ‘Date Movie’ Treatment In the summer of 2010, the vampire genre was at peak saturation. The Twilight Saga had turned teen romance into a supernatural box-office juggernaut, while HBO’s True Blood catered to adults with gore and Southern Gothic sex appeal. Into this blood-drenched landscape stepped Vampires Suck , a low-budget parody from the team behind Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie .
Yet Vampires Suck has found a second life as a cult curiosity. For those who endured the Twilight hype but wanted to laugh at it, the film offers a time capsule of 2010’s obsessive fandom. It’s not Young Frankenstein , but it’s also not The Starving Games . It sits in a strange middle ground: too dumb to defend, too energetic to hate completely. With Twilight experiencing a nostalgic revival (the 2020s saw a renewed fandom on TikTok, plus the Midnight Sun novel), Vampires Suck stands as a reminder of how massive that franchise was—so massive it warranted a spoof within two years of its peak. It also marks the effective end of Friedberg and Seltzer’s run of mainstream parody films, as audiences began turning away from the “Mad TV-style sketch” format toward more sophisticated meta-comedy ( What We Do in the Shadows , The Boys ). Vampires Suck
Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the film arrived with a clear target: Twilight , specifically the first two films ( Twilight and New Moon ). But unlike the sharp, referential humor of Scary Movie or Airplane! , Vampires Suck opts for broad pop-culture slapstick, celebrity cameos (a baffling appearance by Bruno Mars lookalike), and gags that range from the juvenile to the genuinely clever. The film follows Becca Crane (Jenn Proske), a klutzy teen who moves to the rainy town of Sporks, Washington, and falls for Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter), a pale, sparkly vampire who struggles with restraint—not just from her blood, but from her general awkwardness. The love triangle is completed by Jacob White (Chris Riggi), a werewolf whose shirt disintegrates every time he’s on screen. Here’s a feature-style look at the 2010 parody
A C-minus parody that somehow sucks less than you remember. Yet Vampires Suck has found a second life
In the end, Vampires Suck does exactly what it says on the box. It’s not clever. It’s not subtle. But for a very specific audience—tired Twilight fans with a low bar for laughs—it occasionally, begrudgingly, works.
