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- Slayers is a post-millennial vampire tale that's too distracting for its own good, filled with repurposed clips from better horror flicks. The film's sense of humor treats social media gazes with a bottom-of-the-barrel approach, while the performances aren't given much meat to chew.
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Oct 21, 2022 · A vampire comedy that pits social media influencers against ancient bloodsuckers, starring Thomas Jane as a cranky slayer. The film is hammy, uninspired and scattershot, with poor action and humor, according to Roger Ebert critic Simon Abrams.
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Oct 21, 2022 · Kick-ass vampire slayer, Elliot Jones, made it his life’s mission to take revenge on the bloodsuckers who murdered his teenage daughter.
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- K. Asher Levin
- R
- Thomas Jane
- A vampire hunter has to save vapid influencers from bloodsuckers.
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Oct 21, 2022 2:00 pm
Slayers is available in theaters, on digital, and On Demand Oct. 21, 2022.
Slayers is the latest addition to the "Influencer Horror" subgenre, which is quickly growing due to horror's ability to evolve with society. The more we obsess over digital frontiers and glowing screens, the further filmmakers will push their stories to expose the evils of social media popularity and zombie-like hunger for "Likes" instead of brains. K. Asher Levin co-writes a screenplay alongside Zack Imbrogno that retools vampire mythology for the livestreaming age, complete with dub-step beats and Boomers spouting lines like "YouTuber TikToker Cocksuckers!" It's a zippy flavor of horror tuned to younger generations that fails bloodsucker tension by overdoing its Wi-Fi-connected commentary.
Elliot Jones (Thomas Jane) is a vampire hunter tracking one of the largest vamp syndicates in America. The “Stream Team" is a collective of online personalities who've just been invited by billionaires Steven (Adam Ambruso) and Beverly Rektor (Malin Akerman) to their compound. Instafamous couple Jack (Jack Donnelly) and Liz (Lydia Hearst), Gen Z pro gamer Flynn (Kara Hayward), and party-girl Jules (Abigail Breslin) meet with the Rektors to discuss the opportunity of a lifetime — and that's when the killing starts. Slayers follows the simplest plotlines as Elliot must save the fame-chasing nitwits who waltz right into Steven and Beverly's trap, which plays out like a video game as graphic overlays keep score of every death.
The aggression of Levin's usage of screen images like kill counts, livestreamer comment views, and a whole host of super-quick image flashes makes the film feel like a YouTube video — and not in a good way. Elliot's status as busy-bearded "vampire hunter" translates more into cranky old-timer narrator as he spends what feels like half the movie recounting conspiracy theories and vampire historical context as odd B-roll montages take prominence. You learn how Joan of Arc was a slayer, and D.B. Cooper was a fanged villain, while Jane grumbles through his Vampire Illuminati timelines that suck the air out of actual on-screen action. Whenever Slayers finally approaches some violence or fight element with the Stream Team, Elliot's narration swoops in and lifts us to another lecture that, once again, feels made for a YouTube skit.
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Slayers is a post-millennial vampire tale that's too distracting for its own good, filled with repurposed clips from better horror flicks. The film's sense of humor treats social media gazes with a bottom-of-the-barrel approach, while the performances aren't given much meat to chew. Everything revolves around graphic design additions that should be...
- Matt Donato
Oct 21, 2022 · 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.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- K. Asher Levin
- 2022-10-21
In SLAYERS, Elliot Jones (Thomas Jane) became a vampire hunter after losing his teen daughter to a bloodsucker. Now he's on the trail of Steven Rektor (Adam Ambruso), a powerful, centuries-old vampire illuminati.
- K. Asher Levin
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Thomas Jane, Kara Hayward, Abigail Breslin
Slayers is a 2022 American comedy horror film, written, produced and directed by K. Asher Levin. It stars Thomas Jane, Kara Hayward, Jack Donnelly, Lydia Hearst, Malin Akerman, and Abigail Breslin. The film was released in theaters and digitally on October 21, 2022, by The Avenue Entertainment.
Slayers Reviews. While the influencers are painfully self-infatuated, Slayers is a melodramatic, stinging satire, and hilariously self-aware, and even when the jokes fall flat, Jane makes...
