Decadent Evil: Remastered – Full Moon Features (Blu-ray)

Release Date: USA, 2005
Director: Charles Band
Writers: Charles Band, Domonic Muir
Cast: Phil Fondacaro, Debra Mayer, Daniel Lennox, Raelyn Hennessee, Jill Michelle

Release Date: March 10th, 2026
Approximate Running Time: 74 Minutes 16 Seconds
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen / 1080 Progressive / MPEG-4 AVC
Rating: R
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH
Region Coding: Region Free
Retail Price: $24.95

"Nasty, horny human/reptile hybrid homunculus Marvin spends his days as a cursed, cage-bound attraction at a decadent strip club called the "Meat Market," run by ancient vampire Morella (the late Debra Mayer, Blood Dolls). Once, Marvin was fully human, and when he crossed Morella, she put a spell on him to shrink and bear witness as she and her fellow parasitic peelers drained the club clientele dry, night after night. Now, as Morella executes her final kills to become the most powerful vampire of all, Marvin's son, Ivan (Phil Fondacaro, The Creeps, Troll), appears, armed with a plan to exact the ultimate revenge against her." - synopsis provided by the distributor

Video: 3.5/5

Here’s the information provided about this release's transfer, "presented here for the first time in a stunning HD transfer scanned from the original 35mm negative."

Decadent Evil comes on a 25 GB single layer Blu-ray.

Disc Size: 19.4 GB

Feature: 15 GB

This is one of Full Moon’s stronger transfers; flesh tones look healthy, colors look correct, image clarity and black levels are strong, and there are no issues with compression.

Audio: 3.75/5 (Dolby Digital Stereo English), 3.5/5 (Dolby Digital 5.1 English)

This release comes with two audio options, a Dolby Digital stereo mix in English and a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix in English. Both audio tracks sound clean, clear, balanced, and robust when they should.

Extras:

Extras for this release include Decadent Evil's original trailer (1 minute 48 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), a blooper reel (4 minutes 24 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), and a behind-the-scenes featurette (16 minutes 24 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles).

Other extras include trailers for Bad CGI Gator, Head of the Family Noir, Aimee: The Visitor, Gingerdead Men Murder-Thon, The Gingerweed Man, and Weedjies: Hallowed Night.

Summary:

Charles Band, the man behind Full Moon, wrote and directed Decadent Evil. Other notable films he directed are Parasite, Trancers, Crash and Burn, and Meridian.

Morella is a vampire who is only a few kills away from achieving invincibility, and the only obstacle in her path is a vampire hunter; he is the son of her former lover, whom she has turned into a homunculus that she keeps in a cage.

Charles Band and his company, Full Moon Features, have a formula that they have been using for over 40 years. They make predominantly horror films that often throw T&A and humor into the mix. Decadent Evil sees him once again venture into the world of the vampires, and this time around, there is a strip club where several of them work.

Although Decadent Evil clocks in around 74 minutes in length, when you remove the opening and closing credits and a 10-minute prologue that is footage from Vampire Journals, it barely clocks in at one hour in length. That said, the reused Vampire Journals footage does a great job of setting the foundation for the narrative that unfolds. When it comes to pacing, things move quickly, and the narrative is very effective at building to its finale.

While everything about Decadent Evil screams low-budget, one has to admire filmmakers who still use practical special effects, notably, a puppet master-like creature called a homunculus. Despite being a horror film with vampires, carnage is minimal. The performances are best described as enthusiastic and they suit the film well. Ultimately, Decadent Evil is a by-the-numbers horror film, only recommended for those looking to waste some time.

Full Moon Features gives Decadent Evil its best home media release to date.

Written by Michael Den Boer