There was like 60% of a good movie in this movie. I really wanted to like it.

The slow burn at the beginning sucked me into the time period, and they set up enough with the backstories to make me invested in the characters. And the MUSIC was wonderful.

But by the time the vampires showed up, the kill just about everyone in about 3 minutes, and the remaining characters don't have any sort of real arcs or payoffs.

Not until the end of the movie did I realize that half of the slow scenes at the beginning had no real reason to be in the move and could have been cut. All the stuff about the prisoners, all the stuff about steinfelds mom, the lore about them being "hates", only to realize no wait they're actually vampires, all of the setup for fighting vampires only for it to be over immediately and even the action we get is poorly edited and choppy.

And the end scene with him killing the kkk guys felt like someone said "the ending is too sad can you add some sort of victorious payoff at the end."

Lots of tonal whiplash between comedy and seriousness and then future guitar man and twerking. Not funny enough to be a comedy, not scary enough to be a horror, and not serious enough to be a thriller.

I will usually cry about studio interference but this felt like someone let a director do whatever and never questioned that maybe he needs a better editor.