Do you like Netflix’s Day Shift? The director wants you to see these movies

Netflix’s New Vampire Hunt Day shift brings back an old classic: combining action, horror, and humor into one fun, audience-engaging movie. It’s helpful to have a leading man like Jamie Foxx and a director like JJ Perry.

First-time director Perry, a veteran stuntman and action choreographer, brings cinematic action sequences to the film, while Foxx and co-star Dave Franco exude charm. Perry talked to Polygon about his love of films that can combine the three genres of action, horror, and comedy.

“When you have those three components and execute them perfectly,” he says, “you will always prevail over the audience.”

Perry works in the John Wick franchise and his longtime friendship and working partnership with director Chad Stahelski meant he started getting a lot of scripts for his first directorial project. his first. But most of those scenarios focus on traumatic experiences in the military. Perry, an army veteran, didn’t like that job.

“People sent me scripts and they were all darker,” he said. “And because I was in the military, [they were all], Oh, this is about a PTSD guy, with a sniper with PTSD and Oh, we want you to make a John Wick movieand i was like, Well, I did it. “

That changed when Perry found out Day shifta movie where Foxx’s vampire hunter Bud Jablonski must team up with old and new friends to repair his relationship with the Vampire Hunters Association and take down a lot of bad guys to win a big score.

“When I received the script [for Day Shift]”Perry said,“ as soon as I read it, I knew this was the book. “

In our conversation, Perry mentioned four movies that combined action, horror, and comedy that he grew up with. These movies were on his mind while he was working Day shiftand you can see the effect of one of these Netflix’s Best Action Movies but. So if you watched and liked Day shift and want to revisit some classics, here are Perry’s picks.

Big trouble in small China

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Buckaroo Banzai Director WD Richter rewrote the script for Big trouble in small China, took it from an 1880s West and turned it into a modern-day martial arts tale. Director John Carpenter’s fourth project with the male lead Kurt Russell, this is Carpenter’s one and only martial arts film – something he has long wanted to do.

While Big trouble Since its release, the film’s poor reception led to Carpenter leaving the Hollywood system and returning to making his own films. Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong join Russell in the cast.

Big trouble in small China available to watch on Hulu.

Lost boys

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There’s a lot to write about Joel Schumacher’s Lost boysa dark and funny coming of age story that acts like an amnesiac adaptation of Peter Pan. But if I mention only one thing, it’s Kiefer Sutherland’s unforgettable performance as the villain David Powers. Backed up by the film’s incredible costumes, production design, hair, and makeup, Sutherland’s Powers is an iconic cinematic villain from an era overrun with them.

Lost boys available for free viewing with ads on Tubi or digitally rented or purchased on the VOD platform.

Dead Devil

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Said to be the pinnacle of horror comedy, Sam Raimi’s original film in the stellar Evil Dead franchise strikes a remarkable balance between its sinister humor and the horror unfolding before your eyes. It’s an ingenious feat, and one that none other than Raimi (and his star and vessel, Bruce Campbell) could have accomplished.

Dead Devil available for free viewing with ads on Tubi and Pluto TV, or digitally rented or purchased on the VOD platform.

Night fear

Image: Columbia Pictures Home Video

Tom Holland (no, not that) is known for being a great director Child’s play, born the Chucky franchise. But his directorial debut is this vampire horror comedy about a young boy who discovers his neighbor is a vampire. What does the boy do? Of course, he finds an actor who plays vampire hunters in the movies to stop the vampires.

Night fear available for free viewing with ads on Pluto TV, or for digital rental or purchase on the VOD platform.