Night Patrol (now on Shudder) mashes up L.A. cops-vs.-gangsters drama with supernatural horror-thrillers with enough ambition and vision to compel you to admire it. Director/co-writer Ryan Prows graduates from indie passion projects (2017’s Lowlife) to lo-fi horror (a segment of V/H/S/94) to this new slightly less lo-fi, but still indie outing boasting a few familiar faces in Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Jermaine Fowler and RJ Cyler. And in many ways, it’s very much a John Carpenter homage, aiming for the sweet spot between Assault on Precinct 13 and Vampires – now let’s see if he hits it.
NIGHT PATROL: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
The Gist: Wazi Carr (Cyler, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) is cuffed to a table in an interrogation room. It’s a damning portrait of the LAPD that he bleeds from an object jammed between his ribs,
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