Day Shift

Day Shift

An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill him.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
  • Stars: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Steve Howey, Scott Adkins, Snoop Dogg, Eric Lange, Zion Broadnax, Oliver Masucci, C.S. Lee, Tetiana Gaidar, Peter Stormare, Danielle Kennedy, Shai Debroux, Massi Furlan
  • Director: J.J. Perry
 Comments
  • Vivekmaru45 - 8 January 2023
    Enjoyed the Blade Trilogy more than this.
    Poor vampire film with questionable direction and special effects. This movie is a hybrid action-comedy-horror-thriller. Jamie Foxx is the lead actor who plays a a pool cleaner and vampire hunter by day. He has kept his vampire hunting a secret from his family.

    Soon he is given a rookie to mentor called Seth(played by Dave Franco the younger brother of actor James Franco). These two are soon thrown into a bizarre series of events.

    I have seen a job lot of vampire films in my time and a good start would be Nosferatu(1922) followed by the Dracula Hammer horror films. There is a British TV movie Count Dracula worth mentioning here and Vampire 1979( a masterpiece and I considered it a honor to watch it in my youth as it was broadcast on the only local TV station we had during those days).

    Nosferatu the Dracula 1979, Vampyre 1979 and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula are good art-style horror movies with gothic atmosphere.

    If you have watched all the Blade horror films including the Blade animated series then I would suggest giving this a hard pass. Also worth mentioning are two animated features Dracula Sovereign Of The Damned and Vampire Hunter D(the first and original one - not the remake).

    Among the modern vampire adaptations are To Die For 1989 and it's sequel Son of Darkness: To Die For II 1991. Fright Night 1985 and its direct sequel Fright Night 2 1988. Special mention to Lifeforce 1985 a sci-fi stylized action-horror masterpiece.

    John Carpenter made his Vampires(1998) another interesting take on modern vampire hunting. Indeed Day Shift is nothing but a cheap rip-off of the John Carpenter film. Vampires: Los Muertos 2002 is the sequel to the John Carpenter film and severely underrated. I have seen it and it's a very good film better than this Day Shift.

    I'm not a big fan of Jamie Foxx. No insult intended but I've seen better African American actors in my life: James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Paul Winfield, John Amos, Denzel Washington, Sherman Helmsley, Jimmy Walker, Charles Dutton. Take your pick. I respect Foxx for his portrayal of the late Ray Charles but nothing more. Special mention to Harrison Page for his role in Lionheart(1990). I'm also praising Samuel Jackson for his contribution to cinema, though personally, I only like a few of his films. Ken Foree(Dawn Of The Dead) Tony Todd(Candyman) are horror legends.

    So now, with all the aforementioned movies above, you'll have your hands full watching horror movies you've missed.
  • hristokasabov - 21 November 2022
    Actually very good movie...
    Wow Netflix can make good movies i cant remember the previous good movie from Netflix. This movie has a lot of blood but this is the charm of this type of movie. The story was good i was shocked because this is Netfix movie. Jamie Foxx doesnt have bad movie he is alway on top.

    The moment when brothers Nazarian came and i see Scott Adkins i actually ,,pee my pants''. Snoop Dog was actually not bad he play like bad boy and the movie was totally for him. Dave Franco was good in this movie.

    When i see this movie and the cast in my head comes the cast of ,,The Gray Man'' again Netfilx production but terrible performance.