If you’re like me and hankering for a new vampire movie, RLJE Films has the perfect offering for you. They’ve just announced that Night Patrol, the brand new supernatural police thriller starring Jermaine Fowler and Justin Long, is set to hit theaters next year, bringing with it a brand new poster with the cheeky slogan “defang the police.”
The film, which also stars RJ Cyler, Freddie Gibbs, CM Punk, YG, Flying Lotus, Dermot Mulroney, Jon Oswald, and Nicki Micheaux, will have its premiere tomorrow at this year’s Fantastic Fest, before heading to Beyond Fest on September 28. After that, general audiences will have to wait a while, as Night Patrol’s wide release date is officially set for January 16, 2026. The film’s logline is as follows:
An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.
The new poster echoes the seedy LA-set thrillers of years’ past, putting its own spin on the police story with a colorful vampire skull on a black background, the brain cavity filled not with bone but with the scene of a stick-up. It doesn’t give away much about the film itself, but that “defang the police” slogan hints at more than Fowler and Long’s characters bargained for.
Night Patrol — not to be confused with the 1984 comedy of the same name starring The Exorcist’s Linda Blair — is directed by Ryan Prows, who co-wrote the script with Shaye Ogbonna, Tim Cairo, and Jake Gibson. The group previously collaborated on Lowlife, Prows’ 2017 film about an organ harvesting scheme gone wrong, also starring Micheaux.
Night Patrol hits theaters on January 16, 2026. Check out the new poster below:
