Fanged Up (2017)
A young rogue is thrown into prison for the weekend, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims.
Passable British horror comedy with engaging characters and likable actors in Daniel O'Reilly, Stu Bennett, Vas Blackwood and Danielle Harold. Sadly the same cannot be said of Steven Berkoff as the vampire prison governor hiding away in the shadows - he actually acted like he was dead, although former Misfit Lauren Socha as warden Miss Renfield made up for it with a deadpan vamp performance.
The film worked best in the first half with some truly funny prison sequences as O'Reilly tries rather badly to adjust to prison life. It's when the horror kicks in that it stumbles quite badly in that it's neither scary, particularly gory nor garners much in the way of laughs and it's all done in a way that any tension is negligible.
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