Won't survive the light of day

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2014)

The mockumentary has not really had a good recent workout, due to the Fear of Looking Shallow. Why mock, when we can celebrate? In this case, what is apparently being mocked doesn't even exist. But this vampire flatmates genre flick certainly has the dial turned up to.. well not quite 11 but pretty high.
What is fresh here is the humorous eye that laughs at the fallacies of the Hollywood vampire myth as well as the bro culture that the film is actually about. I loved the flatmates helping each other dress up for a night out because "they can't use mirrors, so don't know what they look like". They can only hang out in certain clubs, due to having to be invited in.
Probably the peak of the humour involves the werewolves being a dumb Iron John self help group - "Werewolves don't swear!" - who seem to be in continual crises. Even the pathos about death is more or less pitch perfect.
This has the strength to be a cult, but if it shames the torrent of vampire crap and angst hangers-on (yes Being Human, I'm looking at you) that gets churned out at a truly scary rate - so much the better.