If you liked Netflix’s Day Shift, watch these 4 movies that also combine action, horror, and comedy

polygon.com:

Netflix’s new vampire hunting movie Day Shift brings back an old classic: combining action, horror, and comedy into a fun, audience-thrilling package. It helps to have a leading man like Jamie Foxx, and a director like J.J. Perry.

First-time director Perry, a veteran stunt performer and action choreographer, brings electric action sequences to the movie, while Foxx and co-star Dave Franco layer on the charm. Perry talked to Polygon about his love for movies that can combine the three genres of action, horror, and comedy.

“When you have those three ingredients and implement them perfectly,” he says, “you’ll always have the upper hand on the audience.”

Perry’s work on the John Wick franchise and his longtime friendship and work partnership with director Chad Stahelski meant he started receiving a lot of scripts for his first directing project. But most of those scripts were laser-focused on traumatic experiences in the military. Perry, an Army veteran, wasn’t interested in doing that kind of work.

“People were sending me scripts and they were all darker,” he says. “And because I was in the Army, [they were all], Oh, this is about a PTSD guy, with a sniper that has PTSD and Oh we want you to do a John Wick kind of movie, and I was like, Well, I kind of did that.”

That changed when Perry found out about Day Shift, a movie where Foxx’s vampire-hunting Bud Jablonski must team up with friends old and new to repair his relationship with the Vampire Hunters’ Union and take down a whole lot of bad guys in order to secure a big score.

“When I got the script [for Day Shift],” Perry says, “immediately when I read it, I knew right away this is the one.”

In our chat, Perry mentioned four movies that combine action, horror, and comedy