In September, the vampire comedy Suck, starring a slew of artists, including Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Moby, will be shown during the Toronto International Film Festival, announced the Big Fat Truck record company in a press release.
Dimitri Coats, singer/songwriter/guitarist of the rock group Burning Brides, also plays a role in the film. He revealed details to BE Interactive about the feature film. “The film is about a band (The Winners) that is trying to make it. They want to be famous and I am the lead villain vampire in the film and I’m also a drug dealer. The girl in the band comes to me and I get her hooked on drugs and I turn her into a vampire. As the movie progresses, she starts turning the rest of her band into vampires, and as the band becomes more vampire like, it becomes more and more popular! Malcom McDowell is a vampire hunter, and he’s riding around the whole movie trying to kill me, and we have a big show down at the end.”
Coats believes that the song Vampire Waltz, which is featured on the Burning Brides’ sophomore album, Leave No Ashes, played a part in inspiring screenwriter and director Rob Stefaniuk to write Suck. Coats added, “And then when we released Anhedonia, our fourth album (that came out in Canada last June), he completely fell in love with the record and he wanted to use those two songs in the movie: Flesh and Bones and If One of Us Goes Further.”
According to different sources, Alice Cooper will be playing a bartender, while Moby plays the lead singer of the rival group called Secretaries of Steak. Iggy Pop will play a music producer.