Vampire movies, it seems they're back for real now! And I found another good one!

It's not just because the ever-so-talented Jamie Foxx is in it - which is always a plus, but they have a twist. And they have good action scenes. And they get the vampire mannerisms down to the finest detail, and play around with all the clichés we know of. Mirrors, yupp. Fight scene with missing reflection, yupp. Sunlight, yupp. Modern stake varieties, yupp. Red eyes. Fangs - very intricate this bit. Bloodlust. Sensuality. Age.

From the shotgun to the kind to everything inbetween, and that bangin' beautiful wife of his, it's all awesome. Jamie may not have shit covered but he has character, and charisma, and the tenacity required to truly hunt the beasts of moonlight.

The thing about it being a day job instead of a night one, that's a big twist too, and witticism. And they play on it beyond what they'd need to for it to be the title.

Also check out Night Teeth if you haven't. Another good movie. Another creative and so very stylish new take on the vampire genre.

They show the Hollywood sign in the intro too here - as another movie I watched recently did. I thought there were copyright issues with doing that! No longer? Or they pay a hefty fee to feature it?

JJ Pierce btw, Karla Souza, Meagan Good, Dave Franco, Snoop The One And Only D O Double GG - and don't miss the Steve Howey and Scott Adkins sequence! They've got a lot of good names in this. Peter Stormare too. And Oliver Masucci fits his role just perfect.

I love this. Maybe ought give it a full five after all...

 rated 4.5/5: almost awesome

September, 2022

Just a few weeks later... and I had to see this one again. It was just that good!

I watched a ton of interviews with Franco and Foxx too since last time, and they're great here, but those interviews... not so much. It's the same thing with each one. Same sayings over and over. They did a media hype round, I presume, but are media hype rounds different for Netflix specifically, or did they decide to do this themselves for this one movie, or are they always this repetitive?!

They're on different interviews, with somewhat different questions, yet the responses somehow kept turning out the same, and the backdrop seems the same, and it all felt like such a wasted opportunity for proper marketing... they were on independent YT channels and most barely even had any views.

I just wonder if that's how they usually do it. I've never seen it done that way before. Maybe they tried some unconventionally independent marketing with this one, or maybe I just happened to stumble into clips of which the like I usually don't stumble into...

This movie though: It kicks ass. And fast. I love every second.

Foxx's acting pales in comparison to Franco's, but they're a good duo. Fox the straight man. Franco the animated. Everyone's great.

Love to see Scott Adkins in any movie he appears in now too. Big props.

Haven't seen this one movie yet? Go watch.

 rated 4.5/5: almost awesome