one of my absolute favorites!

Disturbing yet enthralling

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie had me laughing all the way through. I was surprised and did not expect it. I love horror movies that's are funny. Definitely one to check out for sure!!!

In recent years, a number of horror films have consisted of little more than small groups of people walking around in dark or semi-dark buildings fighting at times intangible enemies. Some succeed, some do not. "The Night Watchmen" succeeds. A rock musician quits the music scene and the only job he can get is as a night security guard for the "Baltimore Gazette" newspaper. He has a baptism of fire because a famous clown and his entire troupe who had died from a mysterious illness while on tour in Romania have been repatriated, and someone opens his coffin to take a ghoulish souvenir.Soon, the building is crawling with vampires, and the nightwatch team - four men and an office girl - are hemmed in from all sides. It takes only a few minutes for the viewer to realise this film is not to be taken too seriously. It succeeds partly because of the soundtrack but largely because of a non-stop stream of wisecracks, innuendo and at times toilet humour.

Stuck working on the night shift, a group of inept morgue workers finds themselves overrun by a group of vampire clowns shipped to the location from an overseas accident and begun feeding on the staff, forcing them to band together to save the city from the vampire threat.This was quite the entertaining vampire-based horror/comedy. One of the more engaging pieces is the fact that this one really plays nicely with the rather silly concept in providing some great comedy throughout here. The fact that the main group here is such a fantastically lazy group that's far more concerned with watching porn on the job than enforcing the rules or just looking for the easy way out of the job makes them a likable bunch and that gives this a nice comedic bent as their failure to accurately perform the job gives this the kind of great base to string the later jokes and gags off of. The idea of every vampire unleashing their bowels at once upon their death is a fantastic gag, and the hilarity of their attempts to determine what will work on the creatures once they've got one trapped and put him down show the type of humor present here playing off the kind of concept this one really runs with. Even the final manner of how they defeat the creatures comes from the concept of the joke and is where this one really scores a lot of its laughs. Once it gets away from the comedy, there's a lot to really like here as this one features some great action scenes that feature the group dealing with the staff members that have been turned, from the opening ambush of the personnel as they get attacked throughout the offices while the whole affair is shown on the security cameras, the frantic battles in the loading dock and up in the break room with the creatures and the utterly frenetic confrontations with the original killer clown vampires which really enhances the action as the multitude of clowns continually coming out of the darkness which is quite a nice visual and altogether manages to enhance the action. Coupled with the great makeup effects on the vampire creatures and plenty of graphic bloodletting in the brutal kills, these here manage to overcome the minor flaws with this one.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and drug use.

Three inept night watchmen, aided by a young rookie (Max Gray Wilbur) and a fearless tabloid journalist (Kara Luiz), fight an epic battle for their lives against a horde of hungry vampires… and clowns.Where to begin on this one? First of all, it is hilarious, original, quirky, and a true midnight movie. Time will tell if this becomes a cult film, but it seems to have enough elements that repeat viewings are inevitable. Horror fans might be lured in by seeing the names James Remar and Tiffany Shepis attached, but really they are neither the stars of the film, nor anywhere near the best part.The humor is what sells this film. And it is not so much the jokes (such as a black man who fumbles with "black culture") as it is the timing and delivery of them. There is almost a Marx Brothers quality to some of the banter, with comments flying by quickly that might be easily missed if you are not fully invested. Then again, some of the jokes are impossible to miss – such as what happens when vampires are killed. We even get a "Twilight" reference or two.On the horror end of this horror-comedy, credit must be given for what may be a new invention: the clown vampire, or "clownpire". With the hundreds, if not thousands, of vampire movies in the world, it stands to reason that at least one of them would have had a clown who became a vampire. But nothing immediately springs to mind. And this film owns the idea, not just making it a throw away, but really the central plot device. You might think that would be silly, cheesy or just plain dumb, but in fact it works very effectively and adds to the creepy factor.The blood keeps coming, just as it should. While not over the top like "Dead Alive", there is enough red to keep everyone happy. There are also a few shots of gratuitous nudity, if that is what you're into. I'm not, but I know it's what the kids want. The only real complaint is the inclusion of an unnecessary romance angle. While it certainly works, it was rather cheesy and even less believable than the clown vampires.For a great genre film shot in Baltimore (with absolutely no John Waters connection), you will want to check out "The Night Watchmen". Already winning awards on the festival circuit, it screened August 2, 2017 at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Who knows what sort of havoc it will cause upon wider release.