#141 What We Do in the Shadows

Directed by Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement

Year 2014

“Yeah some of our clothes are from victims. You might bite someone and then you think, ‘Oooh, those are some nice pants!’.”

A vampire documentary comedy structured like a series of great SNL digital shorts, and the visual execution is so dead on that I don’t fault the gaping logic hole of allowing a documentary crew into this secret society. The film is not consistently hilarious, but that’s okay because it works on other levels than just an effective joke machine.

The characters are a mostly watchable bunch – Took me a while to warm up to the new vampire who tries to be one of the group. He annoys them and he annoyed me too – and the special effects are downright superb. Some of the most clever digital effects since The Matrix. Also, while the advertising for this comedy horror is leans hard on the comedy, it earns the Horror tag too. It’s true to vampire films in terms of blood and effects. There are a few scares, a number of disturbing images and a proper amount of blood and gore.

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