Even without vampires, Smoke and Stack’s dream of running a Black-owned business in the heart of the segregated South is wildly ambitious and precarious. The ominous threat underlying the whole movie thus comes not from the bloodsucking vampires but from the deeper insight that, for a person of color living and surviving in a white supremacist world, paranoia is indistinguishable from perspicacity.
— Anne Anlin Cheng (Los Angeles Review of Books)