Released | May 12th, 2024 |
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Running Time | 174 Min. |
Director | Lea Lexis |
Company | Digital Playground |
Distribution Company | Pulse Distribution |
DVD Extras | Bonus Scenes, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s) |
Cast | Mick Blue, Alex Jones, Van Wylde, Damon Dice, Ricky Johnson, Alexis Tae, Blake Blossom, Ryan Reid, Nicole Kitt, James Angel, Nicole Doshi, Jennie Rose, Queenie Sateen |
Non-Sex Roles | Rusty Nails, Tommy Pistol |
Critical Rating | AAAAA |
Genres | Action/Thriller, Editor's Choice |
After a disturbing prologue where vampires execute a hostile takeover of a strip club, the scene dissolves into the more-familiar territory of Blake Blossom (the titular Juicy) and Van Wylde in a backseat fuck outside a diner, her waitress uniform open in all the right places, ending with Blossom exclaiming, "We're late!" and tidying up so she and cook Wilde can get to work at the diner.
The worlds collide at nightfall when scary vampire dude Ricky Johnson slinks into a booth and tells Blossom, "I'm just waiting on someone," when she tries to take his order. Turns out Johnson is waiting for Queenie Sateen and they hook up outside, in and around his cherry-red ride.
When Blossom gets to her side gig at the same strip club, leaving the dressing room right before a vampire overpowers Alexis Tae, she notices something amiss and draws a regular in for a freebie lap dance, spotting another vampire offing another victim in the lap dance area. When Blossom gets offered "a once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity" by the strip club manager, she bristles and goes full Buffy, breaking a pool cue over her knee and using the cue-half to heart-stake one vampire stripper as another creepy vampire dude hisses, "A master slayer! Incredible! We extinguished your kind five years ago!"
To which Blossom airily responds, "I'm still here, motherfucker. And I'm not gonna let you take over my town."
Back in their lair after sunrise, the vampires are reproached by Vampire Master Mick Blue, and they assure him that they'll take care of her after nightfall. In the meantime, Blue takes solace with Sateen and new recruit Tae.
Blossom works out a game plan at the diner with waitress Emma Magnolia and Wylde, flashing back to when she first foiled a vampire attack with "gut instinct ... and my grandma's silverware." The posse goes to an afternoon pool party—with casual nudity and sex—that Blossom surmises will be the next target of the vampires after the sun goes down, leading to an epic confrontation between Juicy and the vampires including Juicy coming face-to-face with an old lover (Alex Jones) to break the spell that made him a slave to The Master.
Juicy Silver is a tour-de-force tongue-in-cheek epic, with Blossom hitting all the right notes as the otherwise-agreeable character who takes charge when she has to. Director Lea Lexis and cinematographer Chris Alessandra provide startling images, and editors Papa Bitch, Salad Fingers and Jep Lamela put the pieces together perfectly. Recommended.