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"Vicious Lips" dir. by Albert Pyun


"Vicious Lips"

Where I watched it: Tubi

From z-movie legend Albert Pyun, "Vicious Lips" is the story of a female glam rock group (called "Vicious Lips") trying to get to a gig that's on another planet.

This is barely a movie. It's more like 3 or 4 music videos that are strung together by scenes of extremely boring dialogue. The sound mixing is particularly bad in mostly all of the scenes with dialogue. At times, people's voices will pierce your eardrums, and at others, they are an inaudible muffle. To be fair, the glam rock songs are pretty rad.

After setting course for the gig in their spaceship, they soon crash land on a desert planet where there is a manbeast of some sort. Ever so slowly, this creature works its way from the outside of the ship to the interior, where it chases the band members around for a bit before... SPOILER: it gets pulled out of frame by a different manbeast and never appears again. The movie ends about 5 minutes after this.

This film is hard to wrap your head around. There's no real plot. It at times seems self-aware, but when it tries to be funny, it never is. When it tries to be exciting, it also never is. It basically fails at everything except the glam rock stuff.

If you've ever seen anything by Albert Pyun you'll probably not be overly surprised at the quality of this film but it is one of his earliest movies and perhaps a glimpse of his work at its least refined (whatever that means in the context of Albert Pyun movies).

I would recommend watching this if you want to have a couple of chuckles at subpar acting or you have a fondness for 80s ham and cheese. But like I said, the sound will make your ears bleed, and it's pretty boring. It does pair well with a couple of brewskies.

It's a terrible movie but I enjoyed watching it. The hairstyles alone make it worth checking out.

RIP ALBERT F'ING PYUN

3/10

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