Synopsis of the Day Shift

Day Shift is undoubtedly going to appeal to you if you like vampire movies with lots of action.

In the newest Netflix film starring Jamie Foxx, Bud Jablonski is a working-class father who purportedly works as a pool cleaner to help support his family and pay for his daughter’s school.

He’s not even a pool cleaner, as the audience learns early on in the film. Bud’s true calling is revealed as he decimates an elderly woman who turns out to be a vampire: he hunts vampires!

Bud, regrettably, is not above flouting the laws governing his industry, which irritates the union to which he is answerable. Bud’s employment is in jeopardy when union boss Ralph confronts him about disobeying the rules.

Thankfully, Big John Elliot (Snoop Dog), an old buddy and fellow vampire slayer, shows up on the scene and puts in a good word for Bud with the pencil-pushing union leader.

Bud is able to keep his job thanks to Big John’s intervention, however he must put up with union worker Seth (Dave Franco), who is tasked with monitoring his adherence to union protocol.

Bud and Seth explore LA together, kill a tonne of vampires, and occasionally collaborate with other vampire hunters. One of these is Big John himself, but the cowboy-hatted badass loses his life in the course of the film. …or does he? He appears to die in a scene, but just before the end credits begin to roll, he reappears from a sewer.

How, then, did Big John endure? Let’s examine the movie more closely.

Why do vampires exist in LA?

Audrey, a local realtor, has been purchasing local homes and relocating vampires inside of them. Why? It turns out that she is a vampire herself, and that she has begun transforming humans into vampires in order to increase the number of bloodsuckers in LA since she is concerned that the vampire population has been declining.

Thankfully, not all vampires are malicious. Bud meets both bad and nice people, however he certainly has his hands full with fanged monsters of the worst type. These people include his next-door neighbour Heather and, regrettably, his brand-new teammate Seth, who turns into a vampire during one of their missions.

Fortunately, Bud doesn’t pierce Heather and Seth’s hearts, though he does decapitate Seth out of impulse after realising what the unfortunate young man has become. Seth returns to the scene quickly after reattaching his head to his body, despite nearly losing it again during a particularly jarring car ride with Bud.

Bud needs all the assistance he can get when Audrey kidnaps his ex-wife and daughter, so it’s a good thing that Seth and Heather agree to assist him with his vampire-slaying mission.

What motivates Audrey to kidnap Bud’s family?

Do you recall the elderly woman who Bud killed at the beginning of the movie? She turned out to be Audrey’s daughter while appearing to be much older than Audrey, which motivates Audrey to seek revenge on Bud. She kidnaps Bud’s family as part of her vengeance, which prompts him to pursue her together with his fang-toothed pals Heather and Seth.

Unfortunately, Bud and his pals are under attack by a horde of the undead, making it difficult for them to penetrate inside Audrey’s lair. Big John arrives on the scene to save Bud’s neck for a second time, but before they meet a gory end, he takes out the filthy creatures with a powerful chain gun.

Big John’s selfless deed has repercussions. One of the bloodsuckers bites him in the neck, but instead of becoming a vampire himself, he blows himself up with a massive bomb, eliminating every other vampire around and giving Bud the opportunity to flee.

Bud does he save his family?

Yes! Bud and Audrey have a last confrontation during which Bud sets up a wired trap that kills the villainous realtor. His family is then reunited with him, and they learn that he isn’t actually a pool cleaner after all.

Bud is able to reconcile with his ex-wife and use the proceeds from Audrey’s murder to cover his daughter’s college expenses. For him and his family, the story has a happy ending, but what about Big John? Is he actually gone? He makes an appearance at the end of the film, so it would seem not. How did he survive, then?

What keeps Big John alive?

It’s unclear how Big John managed to survive the explosion. It’s possible that Big John was able to put himself back together in the same way that Seth was able to. He probably turned into a bloodsucker himself after being bitten by a vampire, being able to withstand almost anything that wasn’t a cross or a gunshot.

It obviously depends on the kind of explosive Big John used. It could have been a UV bomb instead of a conventional bomb, which would have done a better job of eliminating the sun-allergic vampires. This is probably why he would have survived that kind of blow, since he wasn’t fully converted at that moment.

Despite our presumption that Big John turned into a vampire, we are yet unsure of this. That’s what I love about LA,” he says in his last line of speech after emerging from the sewage and smoking a marijuana. Vampires, damn vampires