Day Shift

Day Shift is the newest film to arrive on Netflix and with Snoop Dogg in the cast, it's no surprise the soundtrack is packed with songs.

- Outside The Boxby Snoop Dogg feat. - Body Count’s In The Houseby Body Count - Walking In Rhythmby The Blackbyrds

Day Shift is a new Netflix horror comedy following vampire hunters in Los Angeles. It is the directorial debut of stuntman and martial artist J.J. Perry, ...

- Zion Broadnax as Paige Jablonski - Karla Souza as Audrey - Meagan Good as Jocelyn Jablonski

One of Netflix's biggest movies of summer 2022 is here with the new Jamie Foxx action-comedy streaming around the globe. The movie not only has plenty of ...

(a movie series renowned for its soundtrack), John Wick 3, Atomic Blonde, and Deadpool 2. The movie is about a pool cleaner who moonlights as a vampire hunter in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley to provide for his daughter. One of Netflix’s biggest movies of summer 2022 is here with the new Jamie Foxx action-comedy streaming around the globe.

Too bad dollar theaters don't really exist anymore, because this action-horror fest would be a hit there.

Aside from a handful of twists in the final act, there's nothing in "Day Shift" that you can't see coming long before it shows up onscreen, and the more potentially emotional aspects of the story are treated as glancingly/jokingly as everything else. His comic pitch is impeccable, and with his skinny frame and six-foot-four height, he looks magnificent in a ten-gallon hat and leather vests and dusters, like an animated cartoon version of an Old West gunfighter. The movie gets much more assured in the second half, when Bud and Audrey's stories begin to intertwine, and it finds the right balance of goofy deadpan comedy, martial arts-inflected supernatural brawls, gunplay, car chases, and gore. Elsewhere in the City of Angels, beyond the awareness of Bud and his workaday money troubles, a conspiracy is brewing. (Kudos to the Van Helsings of Los Angeles for unionizing; hope they have a good medical plan, because they get knocked around a lot.) Bud is a struggling divorced father whose wife Jocelyn ( Meagan Good) still loves him but just can't live with him because he's never around and keeps too many secrets from her. The first part of the movie is about Bud ramping up his vampire hunting to accumulate and sell more teeth so that he can make $10,000 in less than a week, give it to Jocelyn to catch up on the mortgage, pay private school tuition for their adorable daughter Paige ( Zion Broadnax), and eliminate the financial necessity of Jocelyn selling the house, moving away, and taking Paige with her.

Vampire hunting buddy comedy Day Shift stars Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco, but is it any good? Read our spoiler-free Day Shift review to find out.

De Souza does an entertaining, if one-note, turn as a vampire queen with the surprise addition of Dark's Oliver Masucci as her henchman. However, there's enough action and candour to balance out the jokes referencing buttholes. Foxx doesn't make this blunder, which allows the whole thing to feel more seamless in its goofiness.

We reveal the locations where Day Shift is filmed - the comedy horror featuring a pool cleaner moonlighting as a vampire killer is released.

Speaking to Looper (opens in new tab), director J. J. Perry spoke about his inspiration for the film. Of director J. J. Perry, Foxx says “the way J.J uses all his stunt women and men is brilliant”. Starring Sofia Carson, Purple Hearts is based on a book (opens in new tab) of the same name, telling the story of a complicated marriage of convenience - with the filming of Purple Hearts (opens in new tab) taking place in an actual military base. In the final stages of preparing the film for release, Production Hub (opens in new tab) in West Hollywood was used. He said “Everything in Day Shift was done in-camera, visual effects were used just to augment. Tagging their location as San Fernando Valley, they shared a video of cars and motorbikes performing stunts by driving up ramps, for inclusion in the film. He said “a major shootout with Snoop happens at Gwinnett Place Mall”, referring to Snoop Dogg’s appearance in the film. The movie was first announced in 2020, before filming commenced mid 2021. In a behind the scenes video of the action, Foxx talks about how his character gets paid for fangs - he kills the vampires, and rips out their fangs for cash. He captioned the pictures “ @stevehowey @zionbroadnax and #davefranco with me at the ADR stages in West Hollywood wrapping up Day Shift!” ADR stands for automated dialogue replacement - the process of re-recording dialogue in a quiet environment. Ryan Gosling fans should also check out his new action caper that has had fans asking whether the Gray Man is a true story (opens in new tab) or not. Bringing plenty of vampire action thrills, the film also delivers on comedy value.

Jamie Foxx, Scott Adkins, Dave Franco, and Snoop Dogg flex their action muscles in Day Shift, J.J. Perry's first directorial project after more than 30 ...

Day Shift is a treat for genre fans and a perfect example of the unusual, flavor-filled projects Netflix should be investing in for the future. Day Shift’s place on Netflix means it will have a lot of competition for viewers’ attention, with the platform’s seemingly never-ending content stream always moving on to the next film or series without giving new releases much time in the spotlight. The chaos in this set-piece feels entirely fitting coming from a director who the stunt community lovingly nicknamed “Loco.” Best of all, none of the intricate fight scenes, intense shootouts, or wild car chases featured in the film are obscured by poor editing or unnecessary CGI. It’s all presented clearly, and fine-tuned for maximum visual impact. His 30-year-plus career as a stunt performer and action coordinator is nearly unparalleled in Hollywood. So when the action design collective known as “87eleven,” (the group behind the John Wick franchise, and many of recent cinema’s best action sequences) decided it were going to proceed with Day Shift as its first fully branded 87eleven film project, the team reached out to Perry, as a longstanding member of the group, to steer the ship. Day Shift’s action has echoes of that “tacticool” Wick style, but the supernatural setting allows him to incorporate more exaggerated elements. Scriptwriters Shay Hatten ( Army of the Dead) and Tyler Tice handle this without falling into the all-too-common mentality of “saving it for a sequel,” which has stopped so many film franchises before they ever really began. The refreshingly low stakes and the way the mundane and the supernatural effortlessly intermix here are just two of the ways Day Shift will remind savvy viewers of the many ’80s and ’90s video-store staples the film is so clearly a love letter to. Someone who has never seen the older films the script and directing nod to will still find a lot of quality subtle world-building that hints at where sequels (and spinoffs) could fit if there’s a suitable demand. Perry’s action sensibilities have always been a bit more freewheeling than those of his 87eleven colleagues, and it shows in the ways Day Shift looks different from Nobody or the John Wick movies. At his core, Bud is just a working schmo trying to get through the day, dealing with a boss who wants to see him unemployed, a partner he doesn’t want to deal with (Dave Franco), and unforeseen complications making his job more difficult, like a gentrifying elder bloodsucker (Karla Souza) who has plans to remake the Valley into a new vampire hot spot. In a blockbuster landscape where all big-budget movies are starting to feel frustratingly similar, Day Shift stands out for its clear point of view, obvious swagger, and decidedly old-school approach. Netflix’s vampire battling action movie Day Shift feels like the antithesis of that pattern.

"Day Shift" is about vampires, but it's one of those Frankenstein-like movies stitched together from used parts, with Jamie Foxx as a family man version of ...

That produces lots of banter, bickering and unfortunately, pants wetting, a natural if low-brow response to the new-to-him prospect of getting killed. Making his directing debut, veteran stuntman J.J. Perry and writers Tyler Tice and Shay Hatten seek to unearth laughs and fun where they can, which includes having Snoop Dogg on board as a veteran vampire hunter. Parenthood is again at the heart of the plot, such as it is, in "Day Shift," which could just as easily be titled "Dad: Vampire Slayer." Foxx plays Bud Jablonski, a bounty hunter (he masquerades as a pool cleaner) struggling to make ends meet financially, suddenly given a major motivation to earn cash: His ex (Meagan Good) is planning to move away from Los Angeles with their young daughter (Zion Broadnax).

New Netflix comedy Day Shift stars Jamie Foxx as Bud Jablonski, a dad trying to provide for his family by working as a pool cleaner.

So being a pool cleaner is not a good enough job. New Netflix comedy Day Shift stars Jamie Foxx as Bud Jablonski, a dad trying to provide for his family by working as a pool cleaner. Here’s what we know about where Day Shift was filmed…