After his girlfriend and his brother are killed while throwing a party at the local abandoned insane asylum (every town has one!), veteran Jake Morgan (Britt Bankhead) finds himself tossed into a not-abandoned insane asylum.  Jake swears that everyone was killed by vampires.  The local sheriff (Eric Roberts) swears that Jake is the murderer.  The sheriff also happens to be the father of Jake’s dead girlfriend.

Jump forward a few years and Jake has been released from the asylum.  He returns to the town to take out the vampires.  The sheriff still claims that Jake is crazy but it soon becomes apparent that the sheriff has got a secret or two of his own….

This 2024 movie got off to a good start and it had an effective ending.  I appreciated that Eric Roberts got to do a bit more than he usually does in these type of films.  Sheriff Eric Roberts gets to beat someone up and I nearly cheered, even when I wasn’t supposed to.  Considering the amount of movies that I’ve watched that have just featured Roberts delivering his lines from behind a desk, it was nice to see him moving around and actually playing a character.

Unfortunately, the middle part of the film drags.  When is say drag, I don’t just mean that it moved slowly.  I mean that it was so incredibly boring that I found myself checking the time every few minutes.  We meet a group of teenage victims and let’s just say that some of them were better actors than others.  This is a movie that should have been nonstop vampire mayhem.  Instead, it got bogged down with not-very interesting characters delivering flat dialogue.

One final note: the movie features a doctor named Stoker.  It’s amazing to think that the entire town is full of vampires and yet no one ever points out that oddness of the doctor being named Stoker.  I guess today’s vampires just aren’t that well-read.

Previous Eric Roberts Films That We Have Reviewed:

1. Paul’s Case (1980)
2. Star 80 (1983)
3. Runaway Train (1985)
4. To Heal A Nation (1988)
5. Best of the Best (1989)
6. Blood Red (1989)
7. The Ambulance (1990)
8. The Lost Capone (1990)
9. Best of the Best II (1993)
10. Love, Cheat, & Steal (1993)
11. Voyage (1993)
12. Love Is A Gun (1994)
13. Sensation (1994)
14. Dark Angel (1996)
15. Doctor Who (1996)
16. Most Wanted (1997)
17. Mercy Streets (2000)
18. Raptor (2001)
19. Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
20. Strange Frequency (2001)
21. Wolves of Wall Street (2002)
22. Border Blues (2004)
23. Mr. Brightside (2004)
24. Six: The Mark Unleased (2004)
25. We Belong Together (2005)
26. Hey You (2006)
27. Depth Charge (2008)
28. Amazing Racer (2009)
29. The Chaos Experiment (2009)
30. In The Blink of an Eye (2009)
31. Bed & Breakfast (2010)
32. Enemies Among Us (2010)
33. The Expendables (2010) 
34. Sharktopus (2010)
35. Beyond The Trophy (2012)
36. The Dead Want Women (2012)
37. Deadline (2012)
38. The Mark (2012)
39. Miss Atomic Bomb (2012)
40. Assault on Wall Street (2013)
41. Bonnie And Clyde: Justified (2013)
42. Lovelace (2013)
43. The Mark: Redemption (2013)
44. The Perfect Summer (2013)
45. Self-Storage (2013)
46. Sink Hole (2013)
47. A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
48. This Is Our Time (2013)
49. Bigfoot vs DB Cooper (2014)
50. Doc Holliday’s Revenge (2014)
51. Inherent Vice (2014)
52. Road to the Open (2014)
53. Rumors of War (2014)
54. Amityville Death House (2015)
55. Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
56. A Fatal Obsession (2015)
57. Las Vegas Story (2015)
58. Sorority Slaughterhouse (2015)
59. Stalked By My Doctor (2015)
60. Enemy Within (2016)
61. Hunting Season (2016)
62. Joker’s Poltergeist (2016)
63. Prayer Never Fails (2016)
64. Stalked By My Doctor: The Return (2016)
65. The Wrong Roommate (2016)
66. Dark Image (2017)
67. The Demonic Dead (2017)
68. Black Wake (2018)
69. Frank and Ava (2018)
70. Stalked By My Doctor: Patient’s Revenge (2018)
71. Clinton Island (2019)
72. Monster Island (2019)
73. The Reliant (2019)
74. The Savant (2019)
75. Seven Deadly Sins (2019)
76. Stalked By My Doctor: A Sleepwalker’s Nightmare (2019)
77. The Wrong Mommy (2019)
78. Exodus of a Prodigal Son (2020)
79. Free Lunch Express (2020)
80. Her Deadly Groom (2020)
81. Top Gunner (2020)
82. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
83. The Elevator (2021)
84. Just What The Doctor Ordered (2021)
85. Killer Advice (2021)
86. Megaboa (2021)
87. Night Night (2021)
88. The Poltergeist Diaries (2021)
89. The Rebels of PT-218 (2021)
90. Red Prophecies (2021)
91. A Town Called Parable (2021)
92. Bleach (2022)
93. Dawn (2022)
94. My Dinner With Eric (2022)
95. 69 Parts (2022)
96. The Rideshare Killer (2022)
97. D.C. Down (2023)
98. Aftermath (2024)
99. Bad Substitute (2024)
100. Devil’s Knight (2024)
101. The Wrong Life Coach (2024)
102. Broken Church (2025)
103. When It Rains In L.A. (2025