Price of a Redbox rental $.99, price of a drink and snack $2.11 Seeing Taye Diggs (Rent, Chicago, Brown Sugar) as a Vampire …. Priceless! That alone made Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010) worth watching. I loved watching Taye Diggs in Rent, he was wonderful in Chicago, I even enjoyed his role in How Stella Got Her Groove Back but, to see him with fangs all vamped out made me chuckle. I would have never expected to see that.
Dylan Dog is a private eye for the supernatural. The undead all got together and decided to let one human in on their secret to help protect them from each other. That lucky human is Dylan played by Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgram vs. the world) He captured the character well and was fun to watch. However, I think his friend stole every scene he was in. Sam Huntington (Superman Returns, Fanboys, Not Another Teen Movie) plays Marcus, Dylan’s friend who wants to be a partner, a “go to guy”. Sadly it isn’t until Marcus is killed by a zombie that he may actually get to be that “go to guy” who can really help Dylan.
Dylan Dog is an Italian comic book very popular in the late 80’s early 90’s. The comic is set in London but the movie takes place in New Orleans. That added some humor and was a fun twist on some New Orleans “creatures of the night”. They say the undead chose New Orleans because it is a city that never sleeps so they could blend in easily. They even have a zombie support group. The movie has a very old fashion, private eye, voice over through the whole thing. Very Dick Tracy or something. Dylan does the voice overs and leads us as the story unfolds. “I knew exactly where I needed to go and what I needed to do”.
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