The Night Watchmen (2017)

Comedy and horror blend together really well and here is yet another example of this.Telling the story of a group of office workers & security guards who are the last survivors of a vampire outbreak in their building.Starring James Remar & Tiffany Shepis truth is they are little more than cameo appearances and likely added to give the movie a bit of star power.With fantastic one liners, high production values and a competent cast this really caught me by surprise and is a really good effort.The film has some really great writing, memorable vampire clowns and roaring potential for an entire franchise, I walked away from this very pleased.It's not flawless but is a damn fine effort regardless, we need more of this and less of The Conjuring/Insidious nonsense.The Good:Tiffany ShepisJames RemarLooks greatThe Bad:Lacks closureOne sfx looks pretty badThings I Learnt From This Movie:1980's montage scenes are still awesomeA sure fire way to identify a vampire is by their inability to danceNecrophilia is when one person makes sweet love to someone else. The someone else is just dead thoughGiving a vampire the munchies doesn't sound like a good idea to me

Is this a bad movie? Nope.It has good acting, nicely done monsters (makeup) with a lot of gore and action, mixed with comedy of course.The thing is, it could've failed if the characters weren't able to work together, but they do. They compliment each other quite well and have their own quirks which keep them fun till the end. Also, I liked how the characters, most of the time, were just interested in staying alive and running away than run into battle. Of course the movie later on makes them run into the danger else it wouldn't be fun if they just hid and waited for help.The problem is, the "big bad" just doesn't really do much other than start a zombie vampire plague, then just disappears only to reappear half-way through, get attacked and just vanish all over again. So the big bad villain is still out there, was that done for the sequel? Not sure that was a good idea because I didn't really feel satisfied with the ending. They seem to be more interested in setting up a sequel.Overall, this movie is a fun popcorn flick that you can enjoy. Could've been more though, a bit disappointing.

Justin (Max Gray Wilbur) known as Rajeeve is being grilled on his qualifications for the high paced job as night watchman for the Baltimore Gazette. (Baltimore Sun would have been a better name for a vampire film, but it was already taken.) We discover his qualifications include being part of a "satanic Phil Collins" band and "microwaving." During the night, the coffin of a clown that died in Romania is accidentally delivered to them. The film does about 20 minutes of character introduction (most of which is incorrect). Karen (Kara Luiz) is the bubbly, sometimes airhead who is set up as the "Final Girl." She is armed with a pencil and knows how to use it. After 20 minutes all hell breaks loose.The film is a comedy-horror, similar in cheesy humor style to "Massacre on Aisle 12." The film has some of the better support actors and script writers that have been around for awhile under the radar.Guide: F-word. Brief gratuitous nude scenes of women getting their tops ripped open.

"The Night Watchmen" is a vampire movie with clowns … but the clowns are the vampires and – in fact – the titular night watchmen are the clowns! Does that make sense? If not, it doesn't matter. It's a horror comedy with the emphasis laying heavily on the comedy part, and although enjoyable enough while it lasts, it's probably one of the least memorable movies you'll ever watch. The script, written by two of the lead actors, contains a few inventive gimmicks and a small handful of genuine laughs, but overall it's a routine and largely uninspired fan-boy movie with the usual splatter effects and infantile fart, weed and bimbo jokes. We're introduced to the four night watchmen of the Baltimore Gazette newspaper building, located somewhere in the harbor. Their job is generally boring and monotonous, so they entertain themselves by peeping at the sexy office ladies, playing human bowling, smoking weed and stealing other people's lunch packets. Tonight will be different, however, because the coffin of a famous dead clown mistakenly ended up at the newspaper building. The clown mysteriously died during a tour in Romania and got repatriated, but he quickly rises from his coffin and goes on a violent killing spree during the one night that everybody stays in the office to work on a deadline. Personally, I think that the concept of eerie vampire clowns entering the USA via the Baltimore harbor and gradually bloodsucking their way through the rest of the country might even have worked as an actual horror movie, complete with atmospheric tension and scary clowns' make-up, but apparently the makers decided it was better to focus on incompetent watchmen instead. Thanks to the copious amounts of fake blood and the exaggeratedly bad acting, "The Night Watchmen" is entertaining enough to watch at a festival or in the company of drunken friends, but don't expect to still be talking about it a week later.