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Foxx Hunting
Jamie Foxx raises the stakes in vampire movie Day Shift
Dave Franco as Seth and Jamie Foxx as Bud.
NOSFERATU, THE QUINTESSENTIAL vampire movie, was released a century ago. Ever since, audiences can’t seem to quench their thirst for the supernatural beings. But with the big-screen tales of these bloodsuckers getting long in the tooth creatively, first-time director JJ Perry is taking a unique stab at the genre with Day Shift.
“The movies I loved when I was growing up were Big Trouble In Little China, The Lost Boys, the first Fright Night and all the Evil Deads,” says Perry, who’s making his directorial debut following stints as a second unit director and stunt coordinator. “Sam Raimi is a master. That spoke to me immediately. That type of movie is a horror-actioncomedy. My movie is an action-comedy-horror. Now the order might have been changed a little bit, but those are the movies that spoke to me.”