A trailer has been released for a low-budget 1980s-throwback horror comedy titled Hawk & Rev: Vampire Slayers. The movie looks absolutely ridiculous, but it also looks more fun than I thought it would be. It’s the kind of film where you just have to embrace the silliness of it all.
As the title suggests, the story follows two vampire hunters who decide to team up to destroy the bloodsuckers who are terrorizing their tiny town of Santa Muerte, CA. Here’s the synopsis:
Philip “Hawk” Hawkins doesn’t just dream about killing vampires – he eats, sleeps, drinks and freakin’ breaths it. After getting kicked out the army for staking a fellow soldier with a blunt two by four, Hawk almost dies of boredom working as a night security guard in his hometown of Santa Muerte, California. Just when it looks like all Hawk’s options in life have expired, filthy blood-sucking vampires appear and of course – nobody freakin’ believes him. With his back up against the wall, his sweaty Karate Kid headband on and hordes of murderous vampires closing in, Hawk enlists the help of the one person who kind of believes him – Revson “Rev” McCabe, a dimwitted, vegan-pacifist groundskeeper. Together they join forces to save the whole entire freakin’ world. Well, at least their hometown anyway.
Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers is both written and directed by Ryan Barton-Grimley (The Truth and Elijah’s Ashes). This is what he had to say about the film in a statement:
“Hawk and Rev: Vampire Slayers is quite simply a love-letter to my childhood and a more innocent and clueless time when everything seemed possible and like it would turn out okay. It’s a love letter to goofy weirdos with big dreams and ridiculous ideas. It’s just plain old fashioned escapism.”
I can totally get behind that! Hawk & Rev: Vampire Slayers stars Ryan Barton-Grimley, Ari Schneider, Jana Savage, and Richard Gayler. It premiered at the Dances With Films Festival but it still has no official release date yet.