Forced to take a job delivering pizzas, Kenji dreads a dead-end life. But when he and his partner take a late call on his first night, he realizes what he should be dreading are the undead themselves. Vampires. And they don’t like to tip.
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Director’s Vision for ‘Pizza Guys vs Vampires’
Pizza Guys vs Vampires is what happens when you give 80s action movie energy to the TikTok generation. It’s Evil Dead meets Superbad. And we shot the whole thing vertically in 9:16.
The format isn’t a gimmick – it’s a feature. Every frame is composed for the screen that’s actually in your hand. We were tired of people saying vertical content can only be cheap fantasy romance. Screw that. Give me five days, a warehouse, a 1984 Volkswagen Beatle, and I’ll give you vampires that don’t suck. Well, technically they do suck. You know what I mean.
My work spans Mad Men, Django Unchained, and three seasons as camera operator on This is Us. I was Director of Photography on While We Live (five Danish Academy Award nominations, 2017) and A Beautiful Life (Netflix’s #1 global film, 2023). Growing up in Oakland and learning filmmaking from the lighting department up—working alongside Tarantino, Spike Lee, and J.J. Abrams— I founded Flashback Pictures in 2025. My company takes a “Moneyball” approach to production: betting on undervalued formats and sidelined talent while moving at startup speed. Pizza Guys vs Vampires went from concept to launch in three months, proving you don’t need Hollywood timelines or budgets to make something people actually want to watch.
Here’s the thing: everyone’s already glued to their phones watching 60-second clips. But nobody’s bringing real production value to that format. So we teamed up writers from Workaholics, YouTubers with millions of subscribers and a bad-ass stunt team to make something you can…well…watch on your toilet.
Watch it sideways if you want. We won’t judge. Much.
