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
- MrGKB - 29 August 2023
If nothing else, a pointed reminder of Sturgeon's Revelation...
...and that there has to be a battom of the barrel within that aphorism. "Slayers" offers itself up as such, continually prompting its audience to wonder, "Who bankrolls junk like this and why, and how do otherwise talented actors get themselves involved?
That this thing wrapped principal photography in eleven days speaks volumes, none comnplimentary. One can imagine how little time went into the script. Loads of B-roll footage can't conceal the paltry budget of the whole affair, nor the lack of any consistent direction or vision. Maybe writer/director/producer K. Asher Levin has some sort of deal going with Thomas "The Mist" Jane or something, a poker debt or something, and they managed to talk some friends into helping out and...and really, who cares? None of it came to anything worthy of attention. None of the ladies involved will be showcasing it on their CV; well, maybe. Lydia "Z Nation" Hearst, if only to prove she's staying busy.
Enough words expended on this contender for worst film of the year. You've been duly warned, and not just by me. - Gagarr - 22 February 2023
Cult flick missed opprotunity
I started watching because of Thomas Jane and Abigail Breslin, before checking IMDB rating. It started off so poorly, that I had to check and the 3.0 rating made me want to turn it off. But I decided to see if it was bad/good enough to be a cult flick. Thomas Jane was perfect for his part a protagonist/narrator. The social media tie ins were good, but didn't go far enough. The live streaming with influencers the was great, but under utilized. The "How to" piece and old school fight sound graphics were cult film gold. The framework was their, the acting talent was good enough, the production value was "OK", but ultimately the directing/editing stopped it from becoming cult film. Gave it 5 stars for the attempt, but 3 stars was pretty correct. - HorrorFilmHellion - 23 October 2022
Not sure how this happened, but oof..
This is how you stack the deck with some fine actors and only enable them to fail. The script is surprisingly mundane on this. The camera work, directing, and editing is equally as bad. The end product, although entertaining for small occasional moments, is incoherent and tedious with just a lot of random surreal scene fractions spewed out to kill the time. There are pieces and parts that are ok, and some fractions can be entertaining at their core, but the clumsy filming style with the camera always moving and bouncing around brings it down to an abnoxious level, similar to the sterotype influencers put in as characters. The actors were the only saving grace to keep this from being a turned-it-off event for me.
