StreamingSoundtracks.com - Vampires Suck

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	What Would You Do Christopher Lennertz	2:02	14
02	Something Strange.. Christopher Lennertz	1:21	20
03	Meet The Sullens Christopher Lennertz	2:26	9
04	Welcome To Sporks Christopher Lennertz	0:44	38
05	Chemistry In Class Christopher Lennertz	2:42	13
06	Attack On The Dock Christopher Lennertz	2:00	7
07	Edward Saves Becca Christopher Lennertz	2:10	8
08	Jacob's Crush Self Defense Christopher Lennertz	1:38	30
09	Sleepwalking Christopher Lennertz	2:44	11
10	I'm A Killer Christopher Lennertz	3:44	13
11	First Kiss Christopher Lennertz	2:27	20
12	Driving And Chasing Christopher Lennertz	1:29	7
13	Becca Meets The Family Christopher Lennertz	2:10	5
14	The Breakup Killing Jack Christopher Lennertz	5:01	13
15	Frank Comforts Becca Christopher Lennertz	1:04	6
16	Becca's Confrontation Christopher Lennertz	1:41	6
17	Testing Edward Christopher Lennertz	1:23	32
18	The Pack Arrives Christopher Lennertz	1:18	8
19	Antoine Torn To Shreds Christopher Lennertz	1:11	5
20	Becca Is Dead Christopher Lennertz	4:05	27
21	Race To Prom Christopher Lennertz	2:01	31
22	Edward Exposed Christopher Lennertz	3:23	6
23	Becca Must Become A Vampire Christopher Lennertz	2:21	27
24	The Final Bite Christopher Lennertz	1:37	7

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Reviewers Rating

1 review done for this album.

Serious score for a joke movie

By:	LadyInque
Date:	1 Mar 2011
Rating:

I was pretty excited about this album, having heard in reviews and in context how Christopher Lennertz scored the heck out of the parody film Meet the Spartans. Though that score never got a commercial release, this did, and I’m glad. At first glance, Vampires Suck looks like it should be a disposable score to a schlocky parody of the Twilight movies. And if that were all there was to this, I’d tell you to skip the album. But look a little deeper and you see that this score really represents one composer’s chance to re-score the Twilight movies, taking into account the disparate styles used in that series, specifically Carter Burwell’s jangly, electronics-tinged take on the first film and Alexander Desplat’s passionate somnambulism for the second. So if you’re a fan of Twilight, or the romantic supernatural in any of its forms, I recommend you take a listen. The plot Vampires Suck is mostly identical to its source material. So if you can decipher the clever code (i.e., Becca = Bella, Jack = James) then you can line this music up to Twilight with little effort.

This score is obviously influenced by the extant Twilight music, but it’s not a pastiche. The first chunk of the album, including tracks like “Meet the Sullens” and “Chemistry in Class,” most resembles Carter Burwell’s score, using guitar, voice, and some electronic sounds. “Attack on the Dock,” is far better than anything Desplat was able to produce for fight scenes, because in Lennertz’s score it actually sounds like something dangerous is happening on screen. “Sleepwalking” resembles Desplat’s music, but includes a quote of John Williams’s “Hedwig’s Theme” for reasons I don’t understand.

And though the movie is a parody, the score is for real. “Becca is Dead?” is surprisingly beautiful, and it shows you that this composer takes the emotion seriously. The main theme gets a lush string arrangement in “The Final Bite.”

Lennertz’s score has action, romance, and mystery. Whatever your opinion of Twilight, what’s gotta be wrong with that?

Request: “I’m A Killer” “Becca is Dead?” “The Final Bite”

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