Taintlight

2009 American film

November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)

Running time

60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Taintlight is a 2009 American direct-to-video parody horror film, written and directed by Chris Seaver and starring Meredith Host, Kurt Indovina, and A.J. Stabbone. It a parody of the 2008 film Twilight.^[1]

The film belongs to the paranormal romance genre, depicting a love triangle between a female human, a male vampire, and a male werewolf.

Premise

When lovely young Stella (Meredith Host) strikes up a romance with pale, brooding vampire Edgar Mullens (Kurt Indovina), the couple must navigate the treacherous waters of human-undead love and fend off the amorous advances of a werewolf named Jack (A.J. Stabbone). Meanwhile, another brood of bloodsuckers seeks to impale Edgar and claim Stella for themselves.

Cast

Meredith Host as Stella
Kurt Indovina as Edgar Mullens
A.J. Stabbone as Jack
Jesse Green as Razor
Jesse Ames as Veronica
Miranda Bonetwig as Rosalis
Billy Garberina as Tobius / Raoul
Andrew Baltes as Rathbone / Mime
Chris Seaver as Jock de Queaf
Jessica Stephens as Jessey
Jason McCall as T-Bone

Home media

Taintlight was released directly to DVD on November 17, 2009 by Tempe Video's horror spoof label Splatter Rampage.

Reception

Critical reception has been predominantly negative.^[2] heavy.com panned the film, writing that it "is not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but that’s only because it’s 30 minutes shorter than Sorority Girls’ Revenge, and when you get to a certain level of awfulness, it only matters how long it lasts."^[3] The Washington Post also wrote a brief, negative review of the film where they remarked that Taintlight was "a "Twilight" spoof that was too sorry for even a single review on RottenTomatoes.com."^[4] In his book Fervid Filmmaking, Mike Watt wrote that the lead actors' impressions of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were "dead on".^[5]

References

^ "Twilight Dawning for Taintlight Parody". Dread Central. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
^ Hunter, Rob. "This Week In DVD: November 17th". Film School Rejects. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
^ Sims, Chris (5 September 2010). "Worst of Netflix: Taintlight". heavy.com. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
^ Hesse, Monica. "For fans of truly bad movies, Netflix offers a streaming pile of dreck". No. August 20, 2010. Washington Post (subscription required). Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
^ Watt, Mike (2013). Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint. McFarland. p. 206. ISBN 978-0786470662. Retrieved 16 June 2014.