rooee This alleged comedy horror – meekly retitled from Bloodsucking Bastards – begins as an Office Space wannabe white collar satire and ends up painting the workspace red. The Cabin in the Woods' Fran Kanz plays Evan, acting sales manager at a company which is purportedly a drab place to work even though its employees are able to play video games and watch porn at their desks. Evan has recently screwed things up with the hot HR manager, Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick). He's mercilessly mocked by his smartass colleagues, including best bud Tim (Joey Kern). The banter reaches breaking point when a git from high school, Max (Pedro Pascal), waltzes in and steals Evan's promotion. But there's more to Max than meets the eye. Turns out he's planning to create a vampire army out of the office staff. Can Evan and co wield chair leg stakes and save the day?With its high concept promise it goes out of its way to be liked, but even as a basic concept the movie doesn't work. If the plan is to farm a staff that will function without free will, why crazed vampires and not docile zombies?The try-hard attitude is evident from the first abrasive note of the techno-inflected opening credits and continues right through to the end, a long 80 minutes later. The bleak, fluorescent-lit office has been satirically explored so many times now that smug bosses shooting finger guns or stony faces listening to elevator muzak just isn't funny anymore. The script from first-time writer Ryan Mitt is a cringer. If you're not on board straight away with the juvenile quickfire banter then this isn't the film for you. When it's not being cruel (the fat girl in the office is bullied, pure and simple) it's insufferably sarcastic in the least appealing internet forum manner: equal doses mocking and macho and inane. You know when guys in real life make each other laugh and then one of them suggests they should write a sitcom? This is what happens. The lack of sincerity and conviction is fatal. There are good self- referential meta-horrors around (indeed, when we glimpse Matthew Lillard late on, we're reminded of a great one from 20 years ago), but this isn't one of them. Between the bland and claustrophobic camera-work and the scrappy editing, we get no laughs or scares, and the occasional decent prosthetics can't make amends for the lack of inventiveness. Remember those great slapstick action scenes from Edgar Wright's Three Cornettos trilogy? Yeah, you'll be remembering them as you stare blankly at the dullness unfolding in the final act. It's an absolute horror show, and not in a good way. Avoid.

MrGKB ...mostly on the strength of its ensemble cast, "Bloodsucking Bastards" plays out like Joss Whedon-lite, which comes as no surprise given its creators' various pedigrees and associations. The feel is that of a made-for-TV movie, in that there's not a single moment of it that calls for big-screen presentation; it's all talking heads and minimal "action," which I suppose is fine for passing the time, but not much else. Ultimately, I was reminded of a low-fi version of "Fright Night," even down to the femme lead named Amanda. It's not an awful film, and pretty much accomplishes what it set out to do, but the bar was low and no one involved seems to have had much interest in raising it. Strictly for vampire geeks in need of a quick snack and willing to be hungry again within the hour.

MattyAndAnnika Bloodsucking Bastards (2015) is a beautifully put together comic based vampire flick packed with laughter, bloody gore, and did I mention laughter. Wow, the dark comedy of this film kept everything rolling as it brought in the "Shaun of the Dead" style feel to it. The graphics were great, the storyline was remarkably funny; and well constructed; the cast were on point all the way through it. This is a very well put together film, highly recommend if you're looking for a good laugh.Finally a movie that has all of the perks to enjoy it! I'm a fan of vampire films, and I really love dark comedy; this film has it all. It was completely enjoyable, and following the characters as they each come into light it was more like living at my job; great stuff.

metallipowerman5000 I'd say it's a weird mix between Office Space, Shaun of the Dead and Fright Night. I give it an "A" for originality as well. There were a few times when things were lining up for a cliché' horror movie moment, but suddenly things veer off the page or jump right to the point, in a hilarious way! I also appreciate how they didn't try to re-invent the wheel. It's almost like they knew where "their particular" sweet spot in comedy was...and kept riding it out through the entire movie. There wasn't any rocky highs and lows with comedy and horror mixing(like most movies of this genre). It was kind of chill and relaxed, yet just enough excitement to keep you curiously hooked on the edge. The personalities really sync in a light-hearted way, it feels pretty genuine and stupid at the same time. It's almost got like a weird sympathetic view towards the vampires too, it's silly yet believable, haha.