...stays in the shadows...

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2016)

Like Onur Tukel's SUMMER OF BLOOD, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS caught me totally by surprise. I'd heard absolutely nothing about it and was as pleasantly surprised as I'd been by the former. Too bad so-called "serious" vampire movies aren't half as good as the comedies these days... Petyr, the Max Shreck look-alike, almost managed to steal the show simply by LOOKING like an "8,000-year-old vampire;" the makeup's THAT impressive (as is his costume); but my favorite has to be Viago, the "dandy." His "happily-ever-after" moment at film's end was very sweet. I also liked the closing spell: "You will forget everything you have just seen..." Recommended.