Dir: JJ Perry. Starring: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Snoop Dogg, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Steve Howey, Scott Adkins. 18, 113 minutes.
Day Shift made me yearn for the Eighties, a decade I wasn’t even alive for. And that’s not because there’s any consciously crafted nostalgia at the core of this vampire-comedy, though its final line references a pinnacle of the genre, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys (1987). Day Shift made me yearn for an era when this sort of original, light-horror filmmaking would be taken seriously. Where it would have been invested in, both creatively and financially. Where it wouldn’t have been dumped on Netflix on a Friday morning like a bit of nuclear waste, something to expel in order to fill up all those empty rows on the homepage.
