The
kids are biting and the blood is flowing in teenage writer-director Emily
Hagins’ horror-comedy breakthrough, MY SUCKY TEEN ROMANCE, the
buzzed-about genre sensation. On 17-year-old Kate’s last weekend in
town before heading to college, she and her geeky friends head to SpaceCON, the
local sci-fi/fantasy convention. There, Kate meets Paul, a recently turned teen
vampire (who takes advantage of the gathering’s costume atmosphere by
actually dressing as a bloodsucker). But when Kate tries to make a move on him,
he gives her the hickey from hell.
Kate
and her pals then discover that Paul is not the only vampire at the convention,
and it is up to them to kick some vampire butt, or Kate’s going to be attending
permanent night school from now on!
Vibrant
young actors including Elaine Hurt, Patrick Delgado, Lauren Vunderink and
Lauren Lee help teen writer-director Emily Hagins take a bite out of modern pop
vampires in a hilarious, bloody tale that proves once and for all that
love, like, totally sucks!
MY
SUCKY TEEN ROMANCE, the breakout premiere at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival, is
the third and most accomplished feature yet from the prodigious Emily Hagins.
At the age of 12, Hagins was the subject of Zombie Girl! The Movie, a
documentary about the making of her first feature, Pathogen.
MY
SUCKY TEEN ROMANCE has “the sort of energy, enthusiasm and inventiveness
that money cannot buy,” wrote Anton Bitel of Little White
Lies. FEAR.net’s Scott Weinberg called the movie “a sweet little
winner. … the youthful director has really honed her craft, discovered a new
angle, and now returns with an entirely accessible mini-budget comedy that
coasts on by through sheer force of wit, energy, and ‘let’s put on a
show!’ creativity.” ScreenDaily.com said, “At 18, Hagins already has
a better grasp of story structure, pacing and the mix between humor and pathos
that makes for potent comedy-horror than some filmmakers twice her age.”
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