Eat Locals | Jason Flemyng's vampire comedy lacks bite

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 

Lock, Stock actor Jason Flemyng makes his directorial debut with cheap and cheerful horror comedy Eat Locals, but he probably won’t be giving up the day job just yet. Indeed, scares and laughs are in fairly short supply as a coven of vampires (including Freema Ageyman and Charlie Cox) come under siege from a special-forces squad (led by Robert Portal’s cynical officer and Mackenzie Crook’s pious chaplain) while holed up in a remote farmhouse. Still, Flemyng does treat us to the sight of Annette Crosbie as a grandmotherly vampire who goes into spirited action clutching a Zimmer frame and a submachine gun.

Certificate 15. Runtime 90 mins. Director Jason Flemyng

Eat Locals available on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital from Spirit Entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sInognV92is

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Jason Best
Jason Best

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.