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Nightslayers: The Cast

Review by BloggerReviews

Sam Raimi's new blockbuster Nightslayers made a record profit at the box office, taking the critics by storm. With that in mind, let's take a look at the (mostly) stellar cast he selected.

Matt Damon, of Jason Bourne fame, returned from a year-long absence to play a single father of two who is forced to take arms against the zombie masses to save the lives of his children. He gives a heartwrenching performance when his character is forced to shoot his daughter after she's bitten, but delivers shot after shot of action packed heroism as well. As shown in his previous films, this type of action is definitely right up his alley.

Now picture Jason Bourne fighting zombies. With kids. Alongside Charlize Theron.

Charlize Theron, well known for many films including Italian Job, Monster, Hancock, and Aeon Flux, stars in Nightslayers as a sharp-witted waitress who manages to survive an attack in her apartment. She teams up with Damon's character and together they fight their way through the encroaching masses, shotguns blasting and chainsaws revving. And we know Charlize Theron can fight.

The surprising cast member was Kristen Stewart, whose vapid stares landed her the role in the Twilight movies. Once we saw her part, however, we were not at all upset. She plays Jamie, a younger waitress, and the first character casualty of the film. She gets bitten while Theron's character is helping her escape, and we get to watch the vacant stare and constant head bobbing get blown to pieces by Theron's shotgun. Vengeance perhaps?

I apologize for the torture there, but now you can just imagine it getting blown into tiny little smithereens by the epic badassness of Charlize Theron wielding a double-barrel shotgun.

All in all, we here at BloggerReviews gave the movie a solid 5 stars. We don't do that often, but come on, if watching Matt Damon and Charlize Theron kill zombies isn't good enough, we also get to see them blow up Kristen Stewart.

All kidding aside, she is starring in a new movie, Snow White and the Huntsman (also alongside Charlize Theron), and we're taking it as her last chance to prove she has some talent. We've got high hopes for the movie, and you'll see its review here as soon as it comes out.