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
- lee_eisenberg - 20 June 2023
Are people just going to fall for anything?
K. Asher Levin's "Slayers" is a completely ridiculous movie that owns its silliness. What it makes me wonder is whether people will end up falling for anything. In this case, a group of influencers answer an ad, leading to the horror part (and there's no sympathy to be had for them, seeing what a bunch of shallow, empty-headed people they are). One could use this to point to internet ads that lure people into traps.
Anyway, it's not any masterpiece. If you're looking for something totally over-the-top, then this will be the movie for you.
In case you were wondering: yes, Lydia Hearst (Liz) is the great-granddaughter of a certain media mogul satirized by Orson Welles. Ol' Bill probably would've gotten a shock to not only see his granddaughter denounce him as a capitalist pig after getting kidnapped, but later appear in John Waters's audacious movies. - CJWar - 28 January 2023
Better than I expected but still bang average.
As my title states, I didn't expect much of anything from the movie. Thomas Jane and Abigail Breslin were the two reasons I watched it at all.
It isn't that bad. It just isn't good. The pacing is all over the place, the story is... disjointed at best. Let's be honest though, when you watch a movie like this, you're just looking for some gory, camp entertainment. It has that - sometimes.
Thomas Jane's character was an enjoyable take on an old trope. I'd quite happily watch him play the same character with a bigger budget. A crossover with Dolph Lundgren's character from Don't Kill It would be mindlessly entertaining - up there with Machete. - paul_haakonsen - 23 October 2022
Had potential to be so much more enjoyable...
Well, the 2022 horror comedy "Slayers" definitely had potential to be something good. And I will say that I was initially intrigued by the movie's synopsis and also the fact that Thomas Jane was in the movie. Needless to say that I had to sit down and watch the movie and have my curiosity sated.
And while the concept for "Slayers" was good, then writers Zack Imbrogno and K. Asher Levin went a little bit overboard here, and the movie went from being a fun and enjoyable horror comedy to somewhat of a farce. The storyline just drowned away in the constant attempts from writers Zack Imbrogno and K. Asher Levin to put in as much crazy stuff as possible.
It was a shame that the writers went overboard with mutating this movie into something rather grotesque, because it took away from the enjoyment of the movie. I have to say that "Slayers" turned out to be quite something else than what I had anticipated.
They had a good cast ensemble for the movie, with the likes of Thomas Jane, Malin Akerman and others. However, the actors and actresses were struggling with having a subpar script to work with here.
Visually then "Slayers" was a good movie, and that at least counted for something.
While I sat through the entire 88 minutes that the movie ran for, I was only mildly entertained. It is not a horror comedy that I am going to be recommending to people, nor is it a horror comedy that I will ever return to watch a second time.
My rating of director K. Asher Levin's 2022 horror comedy "Slayers" lands on a four out of ten stars.
