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Day Shift is a fun, dumb action movie about vampire hunters. It's fully enjoyable. It stars Jamie Foxx as the main character vampire hunter who inadvertently gets Dave Franco as an apprentice. I think Dave Franco is an odd casting choice since his character is supposed to be a cowardly wimp, but he pulls it off pretty well.

However, my main gripe with the movie is that the biggest badass, most famous vampire hunter around is played by Snoop Dogg... dressed as a cowboy. And that just pushes my suspension of disbelief to the breaking point:

Seriously, keep the character the exact same but cast Idris Elba in the role and I'm all in:

But Snoop Dogg? He's just so lanky and scrawny I can't take him seriously as a badass vampire hunter. I've got no complaints with the story, writing, or the vampire special effects. It's a fun

Tsui escapes from a super soldier project and plans to lead a peaceful life. However, when his former comrades go on a violent crime spree, he takes it upon himself to end their reign of terror as a masked vigilante.

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30 Days of Night has a brilliant premise. It takes place in an Alaskan town north of the Arctic Circle where, during winter, it goes 30 days without the sun ever rising. So a perfect place for vampires to move in and not have to worry about daylight for a while.

While I love the idea of the movie, I don't think they executed it very well. The movie is a little less than 2 hours long and the way they edited it, this could have easily taken place in a single night. That is, I don't feel like a month is passing for these characters when watching the movie. I don't know if they needed more montages or scenes where nothing happened, but things move along at a quick enough pace that it doesn't feel like these characters are spending 30 straight days in fear of their lives.

The vampires themselves are fantastic, both in the way they look and the way they act. So I don't think the movie really does anything wrong. It's just that I think this would've worked better as a TV series. O

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It's been tricky catching this, until now.

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It's been tricky catching this, until now.

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TONIGHT, HE EITHER FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE OR HE'LL BE RUNNING FOR THE REST OF IT

Young Jason Stillwell moves to Seattle, where local bullies harass him without mercy. One day he enrolls in a martial arts class and quietly rises in rank with the help of Bruce Lee's ghost. His mettle is tested in an international match against Ivan Kraschinsky, the Russian champion.

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In 2002, if you had asked me who my favorite bands were I would've said Linkin Park, Static-X, Orgy, Korn, and Disturbed. So finding out there was a movie soundtrack where Jonathan Davis of Korn wrote a bunch of songs about vampires and got the lead singers of Linkin Park, Static-X, Orgy, and Disturbed to sing those songs? I was ecstatic. I loved everything about it. And Marilyn Manson was there too... that's fine.

Apparently the original plan was for Jonathan Davis to sing all of the songs on the soundtrack but his contract with Sony prevented him from providing vocals on another label's release. Since the movie was distributed by Warner Bros, the soundtrack was released on Warner Music. So while Jonathan Davis' vocals are in the movie, they aren't on the soundtrack. And I've listened to the soundtrack so many times that hearing Jonathan Davis' voice in the movie is just... weird. It sounds wrong.

Oh yeah, there's a movie associated with this soundtrack. It's fine. I don't

TRAPPED ON A LOST WORLD OF PREHISTORIC MONSTERS

A space-ship is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon, the crew discovers that the planet is inhabited by dinosaurs and supersized bugs. Can they survive long enough in order to get rescued.

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I'm trying to kickstart this community by posting various vampire movies; some obscure, some classics. This is definitely a classic. To the point that I don't know what else to say about it. It's great, go watch it. It makes being a vampire fun and exciting (not just old aristocrats in castles!) while also having kids going on an adventure (Corey Feldman and Corey Haim at their peak). The effects are perfectly 80s, the dialogue is perfectly 80s, the action is perfectly 80s. I don't know what else to say if you haven't seen it. Here's a trailer.

HE COULD BE THE BOY NEXT D0OR...

A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his blood-lust.

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I've watched a lot of random old/bad horror movies on Prime Video, to the point that Prime now recommends even more old/bad horror movies to me. I guess the algorithm is working. Anyway, Prime suggested Subspecies to me and the cover looked like a perfectly bad horror movie so I gave it a try. And it was a fun vampire movie; I really enjoyed it. Not a "good" movie of course, but a "fun" movie. So then Prime suggested I watch Subspecies 2. So I did. And then Subspecies 3. And then I was hooked. I finally looked online for this series that I had never heard about in any discussion of vampire movies and found there were 6 movies, with the most recent being from 2023!

The series even has a surprisingly cohesive storyline and each movie directly leads into the next. It's primarily about a vampire named Radu who falls in love with a woman and spends 4 movies desperately trying to convince her to join him as a vampire. He doesn't want to kill her; he wants her to join him. He

I've never read any Anne Rice novels and don't really have any nostolgia for the Interview With The Vampire movie. I'll absolutely admit it's a good movie, it's just not the type of vampire story I typically enjoy. I guess I'm too low-brow and prefer vampire action/horror over the more introspective stuff. And I guess that's why I probably won't be posting anything here about Only Lovers Left Alive or Let The Right One In. I understand these are good (great?) movies, but they're not for me.

Anyway, I've heard good things about the new Interview With The Vampire TV show. I'm curious if any of you have seen it and how you'd compare it to the movie. Is it any good? What'd they do differently from the movie? Does it follow the books more closely? If you haven't seen it, here's a trailer. You can currently watch it on [Netflix](https://www.ne

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, premiers January 29, 2025, at 3AM EST (probably). Two episodes will air on January 29, 2025, three episodes on February 5, 2025, three episodes on February 12, 2025, and the final two episodes on February 19, 2025.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man explores Peter Parker's origin story and early days using the Spider-Man persona. The series is set in an alternate timeline within the multiverse where Norman Osborn becomes Parker's mentor instead of Tony Stark, as happens in the MCU's main timeline, Earth-616.

Predictions? Thoughts? Cameos? MCU connections?

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After Rose Byrne’s stress-inducing motherhood-is-hell panic attack If I Had Legs I’d Kick You premiered, 70s-set folk horror Rabbit Trap is providing yet more confirmation to Sundance attendees that children should be avoided. In writer-director Bryn Chainey’s patchy feature debut, his lead couple might not have a child of their own, but a mysterious local stranger would certainly disagree, forcing himself into their household, whether they like it or not.

For a while they do, sound recordist Darcy (Dev Patel) and alternative musician Daphne (Rosy McEwen), charmed and intrigued by the nameless kid (Jade Croot), an unusual and self-possessed boy eager to teach them more about the area. They moved to a remote Welsh cottage from London, both transfixed by the many sounds of nature, hoping it might lead to creative inspiration. Chainey is as fascinated as they are and it’s immediately easy to see why, the film’s ASMR immersion

After Rose Byrne’s stress-inducing motherhood-is-hell panic attack If I Had Legs I’d Kick You premiered, 70s-set folk horror Rabbit Trap is providing yet more confirmation to Sundance attendees that children should be avoided. In writer-director Bryn Chainey’s patchy feature debut, his lead couple might not have a child of their own, but a mysterious local stranger would certainly disagree, forcing himself into their household, whether they like it or not.

For a while they do, sound recordist Darcy (Dev Patel) and alternative musician Daphne (Rosy McEwen), charmed and intrigued by the nameless kid (Jade Croot), an unusual and self-possessed boy eager to teach them more about the area. They moved to a remote Welsh cottage from London, both transfixed by the many sounds of nature, hoping it might lead to creative inspiration. Chainey is as fascinated as they are and it’s immediately easy to see why, the film’s ASMR immersion into the specific squishes, gusts and crunches of the coun

The Fallout series has delighted gaming fans for decades and, thanks to Amazon's streaming series, it has found an even larger audience. The series' mix of dark humor, 1950s aesthetics, and fun action is a combination that has proved enduring and successful for nearly a generation. Of course, with the Fallout show currently between seasons and a new game likely a long way off, many fans are looking for something else to tide them over. These fans will likely enjoy the underrated cult classic, Six-String Samurai.

Released in 1998, this martial arts film didn't feature big starts and ultimately did poorly at the box office. Despite these challenges, however, Six-String Samurai still managed to earn a small but loyal following thanks to its action, music, and style. All of these elements echo aspects of the venerable video game and TV series. While it may not be as well known as Fallout, fans need to check this action movie set in its own post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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OOZE MONSTROUS AQUA-BEASTS HUNGERING FOR HUMAN VICTIMS!

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

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I'll be honest, I had never heard of Near Dark prior to seeing James Wan's Vampire Watchlist. But then I looked up other lists of classic vampire movies and Near Dark always seemed to be there. So clearly I must've missed out.

The movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who also directed the forgotten cyberpunk classic Strange Days. So even when her movies aren't popular, they still seem to find their audience. For Near Dark specifically, its popularity was hurt by being released a couple months after The Lost Boys. The Lost Boys was a more "fun" movie that made vampires at least a little appealing (in an escapist fantasy sort of way), whereas Near Dark shows how being a vampire... kinda sucks. I guess I'd say it's a more realistic take on vampires, rather than being romanticized like in The Lost Boys. I personally wouldn't call it a Neo-Western

A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN EXPLOSION OF NINJA ACTION

John Liu, a sound technician for a New York City news station, becomes a vigilante ninja after his pregnant wife is murdered.

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