The films: These both stem from the imagination of writer/star Phoebe Dollar, and star her, Lemmy, Ron Jeremy, Guns 'N Roses’ Dizzy Reed and LA Guns’ Tracii Guns. Charlie’s Death Wish is a low-budget revenge thriller in which porn star Ron Jeremy plays a fully-clothed detective. Sunset Society is about a secret cabal of LA vampires, led by the man himself.
The Lem: Lemmy sadly died between the first and second of these. In Charlie’s Death Wish, he plays someone named “Lemmy” that may or may not be the Lemmy. He’s found sitting in a strip club and gets caught up in a gunfight. In the later movie, animated sequences are used to fill in for scenes that Lemmy – as vampire leader Ace, if you see what they did there – didn’t get a chance to film. It’s hard not to assume these films came out of LA drinking sessions, doing favours for old pals and pals of old pals, and there’s something kind of nice in knowing that even years after his death, silly pissed-up ideas are still coming to fruition. Good on ya, Lemmy. Miss you.