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Stars: Thomas Jane, Abigail Breslin, Lydia Hearst, Jack Donnelly, Kara Hayward, Ash T, Adam Ambruso, Malin Akerman | Written by K. Asher Levin, Zack Imbrogno | Directed by K. Asher Levin

Slayers, not to be confused with another recent vampire comedy The Slayers, opens with a voiceover by Elliot Jones telling us about the covert war between humans and vampires as a montage of images flashes by. He’s soon introduced as a slayer and our badass narrator.

He then proceeds to introduce The Stream Team, or as he calls them, “these fucking idiots”. Jules, Liz, her fiance Jack, and his sister Flynn and their manager David

They’re a group of influencers who have been invited by biotech billionaires Steven and Beverly Rector to visit their mansion to discuss a sponsorship deal. The Rectors are, of course, vampires. That’s not a spoiler, our badass narrator tells us it and even...

The recent release of television shows like Let the Right One In and Interview with the Vampire, as well as movies like Day Shift and The Invitation, prove that stories about vampires will always be in style. Our obsession with social media like Instagram and TikTok has made it possible for almost anyone with a camera and a platform to become a celebrity, so Influencer culture is also very much in style right now. When you take a group of influencers and force them to battle a vampire syndicate, you have the recipe for a modern horror comedy.

Written by Zack Imbrogno (The Shadow Diaries) and K. Asher Levin, and directed by Levin, Slayers tells the story of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter named Elliot Jones, played by Thomas Jane, who teams up with a clueless, spoiled group of YouTube celebrities who are being targeted by what Elliot describes as the vampire illuminati.

Plot: A vampire slayer targets billionaire bloodsuckers who have lured a group of social media influencers to their remote compound.

Review: Just one month after the theatrical and VOD release of the thriller Dig, which was directed by K. Asher Levin and starred Thomas Jane, we’re getting the theatrical and VOD release of another Levin / Jane collaboration… and this one is quite different from their previous one. The new(er) movie is a horror comedy called Slayers, which finds Jane taking on the role of experienced vampire slayer Elliot Jones. The narration from Jones informs us that vampires have existed since the dawn of time – and humans have been secretly warring against them for thousands of centuries. While Jones has been in the slayer game for a couple decades at this point, he’s just one of the latest slayers in a long line of them, including some major historical figures.