The Best Vampire Kills In Day Shift Ranked

"In the end, the devil comes for everyone," or so Audrey San Fernando (Karla Souza) says. Though in her world, the devil does discriminate, and his name is Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx). He's only got eyes for just about every vampire in the San Fernando Valley, and he's looking to cash in on making the blood-sucking dead even, well, more dead. Of course, his mission becomes all the more personal when it involves buying his way back into the good graces of his estranged wife, Jocelyn (Meagan Good), just so he can stay in close proximity to his daughter, Paige (Zion Broadnax). For all they know, the husband and father operates daily as a pool cleaner. But in reality, he's a vampire hunter.

"Day Shift" is as wild in its delivery as it is in its premise. There's plenty of spectacular gore-infused action. Vampires are slick combatants and amazing contortionists. But there's also a sizeable helping of heart and humor. In fact, the film thrives in its comedic depiction of a vampire slayer's duty. Bud is torn between the revenge-seeking vampire realtor, Audrey, and his plight to maintain a position with the union as a vampire killer in order to retain his family. All the while, he's given a pencil-pushing partner named Seth (Dave Franco) whose Poindexter temperament slightly edges out his anxiety over doing the actual grunt work of killing vamps. Regardless, there is plenty of vamp-killing to be had in "Day Shift." So grab your crucifix and strap in as we explore the most thrilling aspect of this film by ranking vampire kills from the least creative to the most flashy and over-the-top. Spoilers ahead!

As a duo, Mike and Diran are fierce and seemingly unstoppable. While Mike melts a vamp's face off with his garlicky spit, Diran lobs a stake into another one of the assaulting creatures. The stake plunges straight into the undead creature's torso and brings the assailant down to one knee.

This is where the real kicker comes in (pun intended). Diran unsheathes blades in both of his boots. In a slick maneuver befitting of Bruce Lee, Diran does a winding spin kick with each blade slashing deep into the vamp's dome. What's even more fun is when Diran removes the stake from the dying vamp with a quick yank, the moment serves as a reveal that the stake also doubles as a brilliant set of nunchaku. With this vamp now dead, Diran can continue making quick work of the other vamps with this next-level weapon.

"Day Shift" is filled with moments both fast and slow, and most of the slower moments are still buoyed by stellar comedic punches and cheeky dialogue. However, the action always finds its way back to the front and center. Audrey, a real estate mogul and powerful vampire, has learned that Bud killed her daughter at the beginning of the film and is now ready to exact vengeance on the hapless hero.

Fulfilling a promise, Bud takes his daughter to a birthday party. When the pair leave, Bud realizes they're being pursued by vamps after receiving a threatening call from Audrey. While in his pool cleaning truck, two vamps on motorcycles give chase. The high-speed pursuit transitions to the iconic canal bed of San Fernando's Bull Creek made famous by the chase sequence in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day." Here, Bud pretends like he is going to ram one of the motorcyclists who swerves and hits a ramp that launches him into the concrete of a bridge above. The other motorcyclist is distracted by Bud and then plows into a railing. Both fiery deaths are killer additions to the ongoing vamp kill count.

When Bud, Seth, and Heather (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) assault Audrey's compound, they're instantly greeted by plenty of hostile forces. Quickly, the entire infiltration devolves into a blood path. After Seth realizes that being shot with a lead bullet does not affect him, he is finally ready to get his hands dirty. Heather coaxes him to use the sleight of being shot as incendiary material for his rage. He just does that.

Seth embraces his newfound vampiric capabilities skillfully taking down enemies in a string of acrobatic attacks. However, at one point he turns the dial all the way to brute force and rips off another vamp's arm and proceeds to beat the poor sap with his own limb. It's visceral, humorous, and bloody. In fact, gaming fans out there might be uttering "fatality" under their breaths. After all, avid players of "Mortal Kombat" have seen this exact ridiculously violent finishing move enacted by a certain fighter named Quan Chi before.

In one of the heaviest revelations in the film, Bud's neighbor Heather seemingly betrays their casual friendship by revealing his family to Audrey. But in all fairness, we learn that Heather is a vampire who was turned by Audrey. And, as we've seen earlier in the film, what Audrey wants Audrey gets. Heather convinces Bud that she meant no ill will toward him or his family and was compelled to share the information. She hates her maker and offers to join Bud's crusade to retrieve his family and kill Audrey.

At the start of the assault on Audrey's hideout, bullets are flying left and right. Seth takes one to the chest and loses his mind. But Heather reminds him he's a vampire that is unaffected by lead bullets. She then proceeds to charge into the fray with a Katana slashing three vamps in a row horizontally during the charge, and completing her maneuver with a vertical slash downward on a fourth vamp's head. It's a pretty wicked entrance into the heat of battle.

Expect the unexpected. Bud has learned this well after his many years hunting vamps. Even still, he has somehow managed to pull himself out of scrappy situations time and time again. That's all thanks to his friends. When Bud leads the charge against Audrey and her army of vamps, they quickly become overwhelmed. However, a friend enters the fray to even the odds.

Ramming through the complex in a pick-up, Big John steps out of the truck like a bonified badass. Aghast, Bud remarks breathlessly but with a bit of relief, "Black Cowboy." And like a cowboy ready for battle, he brought along his best asset, Big Bertha. This hefty girl is an M134 minigun. As Big John fires, vampires are cut down like a hot knife through butter. It's possible that Big John racks up the highest kill count of the entire film in just this one sequence alone. Big Bertha is all business.

While Audrey might be the big bad, her demise, while impressive, doesn't achieve the top spot in this ranking. Still, it must be recognized for the "gotcha" moment that it is. Bud has experienced all types of vamps and vamp encounters during his career as a hunter. Sometimes, the vampires have the element of surprise, like the many assaults that occurred in the massacre of the nest. Other times, Bud is on the hunt and able to lay traps for the undead killers.

Silver is deadly to vampires. Bud carries a trip wire that he's used on the occasion that takes advantage of a vamp's speed and aggression brilliantly. In the final moments of the film, Audrey is distracted by Bud's family and she aims to turn Paige in front of him and force her to feed on Bud's wife. This is all the time Bud needs to set up a metal wire in the columns in front of him. He then fires a round at Audrey to provoke her into his trap. Quickly she rushes to him at super speed. But in doing so, she runs through the wire which decapitates her. Works every time.

With vampires, guns don't always do the trick. Of course, it takes a special kind of ammo to have any real impact. Most vampiric confrontations are carried out with pointy weapons of the stabby nature (à la wooden stakes) or sharp blades to slice-and-dice vampire meat. The Nazarian brothers brought just about every kind of weapon imaginable to the vampire nest infiltration. Truly, it's amazing they loaded up so much gear in those tactical vests. Mary Poppins would be impressed.

While battling vamps through the home's kitchen, Diran tangles with two of them back-to-back between the sink and the kitchen countertop. Ever the opportunist, Diran takes his extended-stake-that-morphs-into-nunchaku and plunges it through both vampires, hence the phrase "vampire shish kabob." Then with one clean stroke, he decapitates both. There is an old adage that comes to mind: Work smarter, not harder. Diran's strategies clearly embody that proverb.

Perhaps the most thrilling one-on-one brawl is Bud's attempt at assassinating the old lady vampire at the beginning of the film. Of course, this lady is revealed to be the daughter of Audrey, an all-powerful vamp. So maybe that's why this particular vampire gave Bud more trouble than the rest of his encounters in the film.

Even still, the fight is a thrilling sequence where Bud's skills are tested. The old lady is a capable fighter. And just like all the other vamps, a master contortionist. Bud shoots her point blank with buckshot. She then regenerates quickly before assaulting the hunter and throwing him through a wall. Then the scuffle turns into a topsy-turvy wrestling match before Bud breaks wood off of furniture and attempts to stake her heart. Unfortunately, he misses, so the fight continues. He breaks the old lady's back and rams her into the wall before throwing her to the floor, shooting her multiple times, staking her heart, and ramming his machete down on her neck. Welcome to the wacky world of "Day Shift!"