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)
The movie was conceived and filmed before Trump’s re-election, but part of its premise – that the club, a sign of progress in a deeply violent place, can only exist for a limited time before giving way to ideological reclamation and chaos – is a reflection of the situation America finds itself in now, deep into the post-Obama whitelash.
— Niela Orr (London Review of Books)
Synopsis: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.