What We Do in the Shadows is a mockumentary from New Zealand about
four vampire flatmates of varied ages and personalities. With a documentary crew following them around
for a couple of months, the undead friends are filmed arguing about house
chores, roaming around clubs to pick up victims, accepting a neophyte vampire
and his human friend into their circle, dabbling in modern technology, bickering
with werewolves, obsessing about past flames, and other matters of their daily
nightly lives.
This movie succeeds in hitting
all the right notes in parodying known vampire tropes, and the script itself is
cleverly-written and extremely funny. Everything about this movie’s set-up is silly, but there are no
needlessly dumb jokes. Moreover, the humanization of
the vampire characters provides relatability and thoughtfulness to
the story.
On what it is intending to be, I
think What We Do in the Shadows is
flawless and inspired. It is never dull,
is consistently humorous, and, at this point, head-to-head with Spy as my choice for 2015’s best comedy
film.
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