Dylan Dog: Dead of Night: Film Review

3:14 PM PDT 4/29/2011 by Frank Scheck

Brandon Routh, Anita Briem and Sam Huntington star in the Kevin Munroe-directed film noir monster movie.

NEW YORK — Film noir is combined with horror to zero effect in Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, based on an obscure Italian comic book. Starring Brandon Routh in the titular role of a New Orleans private investigator who specializes in dealing with the vampires, zombies and werewolves that apparently populate the city’s streets — hasn’t it suffered enough? — this would-be franchise is stillborn.