NIGHT PATROL Trailer Sinks Its Fangs into a Gritty Vampire Cop Thriller with Justin Long

The first trailer for Night Patrol has arrived and it serves up an intense mix of supernatural horror and street level tension. If you’re into gritty genre mashups, and vampire cop chaos, this one is shaping up to be a pretty awesome way to kick off the new year.

Night Patrol is a new horror film hitting United States theaters this January from RLJE Films and Shudder. Directed by Ryan Prows, the movie stars Jermaine Fowler from Ricky Stanicky and The Blackening, and Justin Long from Barbarian and Tusk.

The trailer introduces a twisted spin on police thrillers by diving into the supernatural secrets hidden inside the Los Angeles housing projects where the story takes place.

According to the official synopsis, the story follows an LAPD officer who “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 trailer leans hard into that premise with frantic nighttime chases, unsettling creature teases, and an escalating sense that something monstrous is feeding on the city.

The cast also includes WWE champion CM Punk from Jakob’s Wife and Girl on the Third Floor, RJ Cyler from Power Rangers, Freddie Gibbs from Power Book IV: Force, YG from Blame It On the Streets, Flying Lotus from Ash, Dermot Mulroney from My Best Friend’s Wedding and Scream IV, Jon Oswald from Lowlife and Tribal, and Nicki Micheaux from Shameless.

The script was written by Prows, Shaye Ogbonna, Tim Cairo, and Jake Gibson. Prows has carved out his own corner of cult horror already with 2017’s Lowlife and his “Terror” segment in V/H/S 94.

Prows said f the project: “I am thrilled that we’re partnering with RLJE and Shudder to bring Night Patrol to theaters. It’s been a long road to get here, and we couldn’t have asked for a better team to help push this fun, rollercoaster of a film out into the world. I’m beyond excited we get to blast our wild film far and wide to a hungry, unsuspecting audience.”

Night Patrol looks ready to deliver a pulpy, high energy vampire cop thriller with plenty of bite. The film hits theaters on January 16, 2026.