First off, let's begin with the cast. We've got the Coreys (Haim and Feldman, of crappy movie fame), Jason Patric and Jami Gertz (both of "Solar Babies" fame), not to mention Kiefer Sutherland, and none other than Bill S. Preston Esquire himself, Alex Winter.

Now that that's out of the way, here's the plot line on this little gem. Brothers Michael and Sam move to a small town in California with their mother to live with their grandfather. Sam (Corey Haim) is a geeky comic book collector, and Michael (Jason Patric) is a biker wannabe. Michael falls in with the "bad crowd" who are a bunch of creepy rejects from the video "Bad" by Michael Jackson. The creepy guys take Michael to their secret hideaway, where he meets Starr and drinks some blood. Michael starts getting all vampiric, while Sam gets freaked out and calls upon two weirdos known as the Frog brothers (one of whom is the other Corey). At one point, Michael is floating outside Sam's window while Sam screams, "Michael, you're a vampire! I'm telling mom!" Eventually, Mike finds out that the creepy group (headed by Sutherland and including Bill) are a bunch of bloodsucking vampires. Woo hoo.

So, Michael, Sam, and the Frog brothers go to the secret hideout with the intent of killing all the vampires so Michael can become human again since he isn't a full vampire (whew). They kill poor Bill as he sleeps and wake up the other vampires who are severely pissed at having their small-fry buddy staked. So everybody runs, and they go back to Sam's house. There they prepare for the vamps by setting up all the crucial vampire propaganda. The vamps show up where they die by (a) a bath tub full of holy water and garlic, (b) an arrow through the chest into a stereo which electrocutes him, and (c) a deer antler through chest. A rather impressive assortment of odd ways to die.

At last the vamps are all dead. That's what they want you think. The guy from the Dodge Intrepid commercials comes into the house and reveals he's the head vampire, and he wants Sam and Mike's mom for his vamp bride. At that point, Grandpa drives a truck full of fence posts through the house, and one of the aforementioned posts zips straight through the Dodge guy's chest. Then all the half vampires turn human again, and everyone's happy.

There's a lot of weird stuff in this movie that create a severe cheese factor. When Bill (aka Alex Winter) bites the dust, all this corn syrup and glitter comes pouring out of him. Then there's the lame rock concert featuring a sax solo! Oh yeah, that's the stuff right there.

The grandfather in this movie is rather odd. He stuffs random animals he probably finds on the road (since he doesn't seem to have a gun), and his truck horn plays Dixie. He finishes off the movie saying, "The one thing about living here, all the damn vampires." Like everything that happened is an everyday occurrence. Hmmmm. One can't forget the soundtrack featuring Echo and the Bunnymen's "People are Strange" which seems to be this movie's theme song.

All in all this move ain't too bad, and I give it two turkeys.

Scene to watch for: When the chinese noodles turn into worms in the secret hideaway.

Best line: "Mike, you're a vampire! I'm telling Mom!"

Response From RinkWorks:

Question: Depending on what literature you are reading, Vampires can only be killed by one of several means -- wooden stake through the heart, decapitation, silver bullet (more common for werewolves but also sometimes effective on vampires), or exposure to sunlight. Where do electrocution and impalement with deer antlers fit in here? I can almost buy the bathtub full of holy water (although I can't imagine how you'd get enough holy water unless you had a priest on hand), but the other two are totally against any vampire lore I've ever heard of.