New Zealand Mockumentary Delivers

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2015)

This movie felt like a feature length episode of The Office with a little bit more artsy sets. Taking place in Wellington, it focuses on three vampires sharing a home, biting throats, and hitting clubs. Since they are all hundreds of years old, much of the best comedy comes when they get a new roommate. Having just become a vampire, the character Nick wants all the attention of a reality TV star, causing friction with the conservative elders. We get one of the better lines of the movie when Nick's carelessness results in one of the vampires being "burnt to a sizzle," and he is put on trial. There is some haggling as to just how long his indefinite banishment from the house will last, and his sad departure feels like we're watching the first season of Real World. Besides Nick, the other great side plot involves a group of werewolves. Neither group is especially hardcore, and the two gangs get into frequent confrontations, not unlike the milquetoast showdown in Swingers. It uses hand-held cameras and lots of improvised dialog, two techniques that seem to put a lot of people off. Personally, I enjoy the delivery and timing of the performers enough that I expect I'll be willing to watch it back again and again, indefinitely.