At last, a vampire movie that doesn't suck

Rating: 9/10 (20 December 2014)

I'm in the twilights of my years and no longer part of "Generation Twilight", so initially I wasn't so hot on a vampire mockumentary. The idea seemed good enough for maybe 30 minutes of comedy, and not for a full feature movie. But What We Do In The Shadows is brilliantly done and really buckets of fun. It rides on the great actors, but also on a wonderful script and an ingenious mix of wobbly "porno camera" and perfectly placed special effects. The movie addresses various aspects of being a vampire in New Zealand today:
* sunlight leaking into your habitat
* vampire wannabes hassling you
* virgins can be incredibly hard to get by
* Wellington itself feels so dead you constantly have to remind yourself that you're actually undead
* discrimination is rife against immigrants (especially blood-sucking vampires from Transsylvania like yourself)
* same goes doubly for Nazi vampires
* feminist "familiars" (servants) constantly bickering while they're ironing your frills
* werewolves and vampire hunters constantly riding your ass
* mortal friends and chums frequently dieing off
* flatmates refuse to do bloody dishes
So you don't have to be part and parcel of the vampire hype to dig this flick. It's simply unusually great comedy.