Slayers

Slayers

A group of superstar influencers are drawn to a reclusive billionaire's mansion only to find themselves trapped in the lair of an evil vampire. The only way out is to be saved by a famous online gamer and an old school vampire hunter.

  • Released: 2022-10-21
  • Runtime: 88 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
  • Stars: Thomas Jane, Abigail Breslin, Malin Åkerman, Kara Hayward, Lydia Hearst, Ashley Reyes, Adam Ambruso, Julia Sandstrom
  • Director: K. Asher Levin
 Comments
  • blademan-95603 - 8 June 2023
    Obviously Aimed at the Backward Baseball Cap Crowd
    Who wear baggy shorts year round regardless of weather, are under the false impression they're cool (only in winter because of the aforementioned shorts) and original for dressing with little deviation exactly like all their similarly socially afflicted maladjusted friends and acquaintances (IOW like toddlers), use the word "like" and the phrases "I mean" and "you know" at least three times in a sentence, and say "awesome" a lot. Not sure whether this one went straight to video, but certainly should have had it's premiere on someone's laptop where it would at least serve as a departure from (with the sole merit of being more edifying than) the mind numbing propaganda produced by the major fake news outlets.

    The film's one saving grace though (and it's a minimal one) is Thomas Jane's tongue in cheek performance, who must have really needed the money.
  • destroyerwod - 23 January 2023
    I will be generous by giving it a 6. Its barely above average.
    I had high hopes for this movie. A vampire movie with teen influencers and Thomas Jane as some gritty vampire hunter, it had everything to be some kind of new generation Fright Night or something.

    Sadly most of it is just so poorely executed. The story is rather simple. Influencers get lured into a vampire lord lair because he need them for something, they stumble across Thomas Jane character wich happen to be on a hunt for this vampire for reasons said in the movie. Yet the movie try to give us a ton of exposition on this old centuries war between Vampires and Humans, dumping exposition after exposition yet it just make the whole thing so convuluted and you never actually feel like it develope neither characters well.

    The rest is just rather poorly executed. Everytime the movie had a good idea, it seem to never fully develop it. The characters all (exept Thomas Jane) are pretty blank and uninteresting, despite the solid cast of enjoyable B actors. Action is nothing great but ain't terrible, music is all over the place. Some weird special and sound effects are added to make it feel "more video game" or computer-like, i dunno, but it end up just feeling weird.

    Yet despite all these flaws i can't say i "disliked" the movie. I was just disapointed cause i was hoping it would be cool super fun vampire comedy, but it turn out just being "meh". That said i do have a high tolerance to B and C movies. For me to really dislike a movie it need to be very offensive and boring in term of story and characters (Black Christmas 2019) or VERY badly made up (some asylum movies...).

    With this one i was watching it without looking at my phone or hoping it would end soon, chuckling a bit in some rare moments, other times just telling myself "ok thats a bit dumb..." but it was ...ok. Thats why ill be generous and give it a 6 for slightly above average. But i fully understand peoples giving it a 4 ot 5.
  • johnnyhbtvs27 - 23 October 2022
    Like Zombieland For Vampires Only Awful
    13 years ago, Abigail Breslin starred in the very successful Zombieland. Slayers tries to be Zombieland but with Vampires and fails miserably.

    Slayers has an interesting idea and could have been ok had it not been for the atrocious acting, awful directing and the worst musical choices seen in a film this year.

    Thomas Jane, Abigail Breslin, Malin Akerman are a few of the faces who turn up in this and are all too good for the material. I have no idea why any of them would agree to appear in this.

    The movie starts out annoying and by the end turns into a total cheesefest with horrific dialogue at every turn. One to avoid at all costs.