Director: Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement
Year: 2014
Country: New Zealand/US
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Vampire; Horror/Comedy; Mockumentary
Plot:
Asked to follow a group of vampires, a group of filmmakers seeing how they live together in a small flat capture their attempt to train a new recruit into their ranks at the house who turns their lives upside down as they try to survive in the modern-day age.
Review:
This one was a rather enjoyable and incredibly funny horror comedy. One of the better elements here is the fact that this one manages to be a rather enjoyable and hilarious satire on reality shows with how this one presents the main group here. The fact that they're still decidedly old-school style vampires of the classical mold, with the aristocratic and debonair types still obsessed with the style from their death- year which conflicts wildly with the way they live as the more modern society with these issues. Their struggles to come to grips with those issues, finally forcing a human friend to help them out with the jump into the new technological age and how they're able to get the different societies able to come to terms with the modern-day world which is all sorts of hilarious.
That greatly compliments the other strong aspects of this one in the fact that there's a lot of really great laughs at the expense of the group as there's a lot of fun to be had poking fun at vampire culture with the odd-couple dynamic at play with all of the humorous work here. There's the fact that all the different ways for them to fly around the apartment building dealing with their human-like squabbling, their constant ability of using their powers to perform menial everyday tasks and making sure the camera crew captures them at the middle of their inherent goofiness all making for an utterly uproarious time with the sight-gags and visual humor becoming such a fun time in this one.
It still doesn't forget it's about vampires, as there's quite a bit here regarding their rather obvious powers bringing the attacks on the humans they find out in the clubs, the different encounters with the bullies and the big encounter in the society dance which is fun with all the different creatures coming together into a really enjoyable time which is all the more fun with the action-packed sequence afterward of the gang encounters werewolves in the woods. There's really only one part of this that it tends to peter out a tad with the finale that doesn't really make much sense in just wrapping up with an anti-climatic sense of conclusion which builds to a rather satisfying sense of action but just ends up finishing because it ran out of time and needed to finish rather than let them play out as expected. It's all that holds this one back.
Overview: *****/5
One of the most engaging and clever horror/comedies around much less being a stellar vampire film on top of that, this is every bit as enjoyable and hilarious as been said about it which is rather fun to see. This is highly recommended to anyone looking for horror/comedies or intrigued by it's reputation, while those who aren't fans of the style should give this one a chance anyway as this one should win them over.
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