Story: A transgender teenage girl on summer vacation in Los Angeles fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city's streets of predatory men.
Prior today I've never even heard of this waste of time and money named BIT. But I decided to give it a try because of two reasons: the IMDb description is absurd and because I'm a sucker for "so bad its good" movies. So curiosity got the best of me. Well, if anything this serves as background noise. I'll give it that. This is all bark and no BITe.
There are no redeeming qualities whatsoever. I've seen better acting in porn movies. The writing is lazy and the dialogue is so preachy I couldn't help but cringe at the lectures it's giving me. The production values look cheap and before you say "but this is a low-budget movie" that's no excuse. Huge budgets don't make a good movie or else The Suicide Squad would be a masterpiece.
Nicole Maines, who plays our lead trans-woman, is completely unlikable and annoying (also a bad actress) as well as the rest of the characters. So right off the bat, you have nobody to relate or care for. They're all walking stereotypes. The group of feminist vampires is pretty much a lame version of the ones from The Lost Boys. The guys (with the exception of maybe two) are all idiot douchebags.
The only detail I found interesting is the fact that Nicole Maines' trans character is not treated as a big deal and she's presented as a somewhat confident young lady. In a way, this feels like director Brad Michael Elmore's vision of what he thinks feminism is.
My belief is that all these movies like Black Christmas (2019), Charlies Angels (2019), Ghostbusters (2016) focus so hard on trying to bring misguided agendas to the general public that they forget what makes a movie good or interesting. I'm not saying you can't add layers of social commentary to your stories, but maybe try not to be in your face.
Here's the trailer:
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