BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Paul Magne Haakonsen "The Night Watchmen" turned out to be a rather nice surprise of a movie. And that was a good thing, because I hadn't even heard about it prior to picking it up and giving it a watch.The movie starts out fairly slow, but quickly becomes very fun and entertaining. If you sort of think a vampire version of "Shaun of the Dead", then you know what you will be in for here.Lots of hilarious scenes throughout the course of the movie. And the characters in the movie were great and colorful, and nicely brought to life on the screen. They had a good ensemble of actors and actresses to perform in the movie, which really did add to the overall enjoyment of the movie."The Night Watchmen" had good special effects and make-up.All in all, a very entertaining movie all the way through.Vampire clowns? Sure why not...

LordJiggy Had some good bits, and a lot of promise.Didn't have much of a script. Some scenes are terrible padding to fill out the sketch.Some funny characters, but again the lazy script went for cheap cheap laughs instead of stretching the tiniest bit to be original (see "joke, fart") that is done over and over.Disappointing because it could have been something consistently enjoyable and reasonably original. As it is, it wasted a lot of the actors' time...and mine.

Stu Robinson "The Night Watchmen," named Best Horror Feature at the 2017 International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, is the movie equivalent of tasty junk food – the cinematic counterpart to fried Twinkie or an Oreo churro. (The latter available at the theater concession stand.) It's a ridiculous tale of vampire clowns terrorizing a Baltimore newspaper office. And, apparently, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters had nothing to do with it.The co-creators, Ken Arnold and Dan DeLuca, play two of the security guards. Arnold's Ken is the nominal leader, while DeLuca's Luca is the mysterious, scary one. The team of watchmen is rounded out by Kevin Jiggetts, playing Ken's sidekick Jiggetts, a pot-loving African-American Jew, and Max Gray Wilbur as a washed-up rock musician in his first night on the job.Following their mysterious deaths while performing in Romania, Baltimore icon Blimpo the Clown and his troupe are shipped home for medical testing. After a delivery mix-up leaves Blimpo's coffin at the newspaper building instead of the medical facility down the block, pervy newspaper owner Randall (James Remar, the only cast member that a viewer is likely to recognize) forces is it open, releasing Vampire Blimpo.The four inept night watchmen and hot-chick newspaper editor Karen (Kara Luiz) must band together like sad-sack Guardians of the Galaxy to fight off the vampire clowns and the newly undead newspaper employees they have created.During the Q&A after a screening at the Phoenix Film Festival, Arnold said he and DeLuca dreamed up the project to amuse themselves between jobs and that their overriding priority was to make people laugh. That they don't take themselves or their movie too seriously is obvious from the look of the film, the cheesy dialogue and the silly subplots.Along the way, however, The Night Watchmen lampoons the conventions of the horror, vampire and zombie genres. The movie gushes bodily fluids, but in a manner that is silly, not scary, goofy, not gory. At one point, after encountering some really disgusting vampire clowns, Karen grumbles that she watched every season of HBO's "True Blood" and it was nothing like this.It's worth noting that, for fans of horror, vampire and zombie movies, The Night Watchmen is full of Easter Eggs that pay homage to previous films in those genres. Besides amusing themselves, the writers clearly are offering middlebrow comedy for a highbrow audience. They hit their mark.###Stu Robinson does writing, editing, media relations and social media through his business, Phoenix-based Lightbulb Communications.

scott_dunning This movie had a real 80's vibe about it (especially the music) and reminded me of movies like "Vamp", "Return of the living dead" and "Demons". It's definitely not an A-grade blockbuster and the special effects are OK at best but it was still a bit of fun. The acting was not terrible, I've seen a lot worse. I was super surprised to see James Remar in this movie, especially the role he played. Most of the actors playing the vamps did a fairly decent job and were believable. It's not going to win any awards but if you're sitting at home wanting to waste an hour and a half you could do a lot worse. Cheers :-)