Spoiler-Free Review: Vampire Zombies . . . From Space! (2024)

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January 15, 2026

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Horror Comedy | Movies | Reviews

Written by Joseph Perry

Joseph Perry is the Film Festival Editor for Horror Fuel; all film festival related queries and announcements should be sent to him at josephperry@gmail.com. He is a contributing writer for the "Phantom of the Movies VideoScope" and “Drive-In Asylum” print magazines and the websites Gruesome Magazine, Diabolique Magazine, The Scariest Things, B&S About Movies, and When It Was Cool. He is a co-host of the "Uphill Both Ways" pop culture nostalgia podcast and also writes for its website. Joseph occasionally proudly co-writes articles with his son Cohen Perry, who is a film critic in his own right. A former northern Californian and Oregonian, Joseph has been teaching, writing, and living in South Korea since 2008.

Synopsis

In 1957, two detectives, a young heroine, and a chain-smoking greaser try to stop Dracula’s (Craig Gloster) cosmic plan to turn a small American town into his vampire zombie army before it’s too late. From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet: turning the residents of Marlow into his personal army of vampire zombies. Terror grips the town as a full-blown zombie outbreak erupts, leaving chaos in its wake. A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective (Andrew Bee as Police Chief Ed Clarke), a sceptical rookie cop (Rashaun Baldeo as Officer James Wallace), a chain-smoking greaser (Oliver Georgiou as Wayne), and a determined young woman (Jessica Antovski as Mary) band together to save the world from — see title. Vampire Zombies . . . From Space! is a bloody comedy that has its foundation in horror films of the 1950s.

Review

Dracula and his son Dylan (Robert Kemeny), who digs human pop culture, invade from another planet in director Mike Stasko’s science fiction/horror comedy Vampire Zombies . . . From Space! (Canada, 2024) The result is an amusing valentine in glorious black-and-white to 1950s-era B-movie genre fare, with the humor ranging from homage (Ed’s Wood & Hardware is one of the town’s businesses) to corny to outlandish to broad (Rabelaisian humor, to put it generously, abounds, including Lloyd Kaufman portraying a serial public masturbator).

The members of the sizable cast are all in on their performances, and some gory practical effects look terrific. Stasko and company ask nothing more of viewers than sitting back and having a fun time, and although not all of the jokes land, overall Vampire Zombies . . . From Space! does what it sets out to do, providing a mirthful movie experience that presses the nostalgia buttons.