Thomas Jane is looking vampires. Honestly, that sentence alone is more likely to get you excited about his new film. But Slayers, which is in  theaters, on-demand, and on digital on October 21, goes past that. Jane’s vampire hunter must get into a really well-guarded vampire lair, so he makes use of a bunch of social media influencers to just do that. Let the TikTok terror begin!

Co-written and directed by Ok. Asher Levin, Slayers stars not solely Jane however Watchman’s Malin Akerman, Zombieland’s Abigail Breslin, and lots of others. io9 has your unique first have a look at the brand new trailer. Check it out.

From that trailer, you actually get what Levin and his co-writer Zack Imbrogno are going for right here. How do you make a enjoyable, gory, vampire film however give it a contemporary spin? Well, poking enjoyable at and, we’d think about, sacrificing a bunch of social media influencers who name themselves “The Stream Team” matches the invoice.

What you don’t fairly get from the trailer is the meat of the story. Jane’s character is looking vampires as a result of they killed his daughter, and he’s tracked them to this distant, unique mansion the place Akerman’s character lives. How do you achieve entry right into a billionaire’s mansion? With the promise of a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of followers and billions of engagements on social media because of the Stream Team.

The premise has a number of potential and that the filmmakers have been capable of get actors like Jane, Akerman, and Breslin for an impartial horror comedy can also be encouraging. But will Slayers turn out to be a cult horror comedy within the mould of Evil Dead 2 or What We Do within the Shadows? Audiences gained’t have to attend lengthy to seek out out. Here’s the poster too.

Again, Slayers is out in theaters, on-demand, and digital proper in time for Halloween on October 21.

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