CHUCK STEEL: NIGHT OF THE TRAMPIRES is exclusively in UK Cinemas 29th October 2021.
Michael Mort’s animated, horror, comedy is like CHICKEN RUN’S Nick Park took a shit ton of cocaine, watched COBRA too many times, but still tried to make a hammer horror film.
Set in the hair metal heyday of 1986 it revolves around the square jawed, blond quiff of Chuck Steel. He is an OTT amalgam of every heroic cop who doesn’t play by the rules. The ‘Trampires’ he must defeat are descendants of shamed vampires who fled to the USA and becomes bums reliant on drunk people’s blood to survive. Tweed wearing, sidekick Abraham Van Rental quips to Chuck: “Bumpires wouldn’t make any sense.” Together they attempt to destroy the hordes of homeless bloodsuckers, but underestimate the evil ambitions of their leader - Alex Cular. Her warm tones, voiced by Jennifer Saunders, are as seductive to the ears as Kathleen Turner’s Dolores in MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
Chuck Steel is full of witty nods to the films Mort loves and a rapid fire wit that succeeds is taking eighties excess and pushing it to its absolute, ridiculous limit.
Writer/director MICHAEL MORT talks with Stuart Wright on the Britflicks Podcast.
