Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxBud Jablonski
- Dave FrancoSeth
- Natasha Liu BordizzoHeather
- Meagan GoodJocelyn Jablonski
- Zion BroadnaxPaige Jablonski
- Snoop DoggBig John Elliott
- Karla SouzaAudrey San Fernando
- Steve HoweyMike Nazarian
- Scott AdkinsDiran Nazarian
- Peter StormareTroy
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
Day Shift is a damned delight. One would be tempted to call it the best horror comedy of 2022 so far, but it mixes so many genres it’s more like 2022’s best horror-buddy-cop-cartel-drama-bounty-hunter-martial-arts-action comedy (so far). - 70
Paste Magazine
Day Shift’s gory, cheesy, vampire-hunting comedy-action film starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco is exactly what you expect, and that’s a good thing. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A rambunctious, strange and occasionally humorous action-thriller-comedy. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Shift looks and feels low-budget, from its slapdash effects to its sketched-in script, though that also feels like kind of the point: It might be bright daylight, but it's always midnight-movie time somewhere. - 63
Slant Magazine
Day Shift’s first half is an unexpectedly focused, consistent pleasure, while the second sags under the weight of recycled set pieces. - 63
The Associated Press
Yet the slapdash vibe of “Day Shift” has its charms. It’s built almost perfectly to be the kind of thing you might, after some scrolling, absentmindedly click to watch on Netflix and end of watching for its sheer watchability. - 60
Variety
At heart, though, it’s a knowingly eccentric goof of a movie, to the point that it’s hard, for a while, not to find it agreeable, even as you register what a preposterous piece of fluff it is. Unfortunately, it’s also an arduous piece of fluff. It’s full of blow-you-away action scenes, and it’s also full of rules — a satirical vampire cosmology that’s fun, until it starts to be just convoluted enough to give you a headache, especially when the rules are applied as inconsistently as they are here. - 50
Arizona Republic
The best thing “Day Shift” has going for it is the best things the dopey ’80s films had going for them — a willingness not to take itself too seriously. And that only gets you so far. But who knows, maybe in 40 years this will look better in retrospect, too.
