Film Review What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
Right from the start, the film made me smile. The 17th century fop, Viago (Taika Waititi), rises from his coffin after his alarm clock goes off, and we hear him narrate his nocturnal activities.
Jerry Saravia - Pseudo Film Critic
First question: why does a vampire need an alarm clock? Oh, never mind. Meanwhile, the vampires have flat meetings over undone chores, such as sweeping floors full of dead carcasses and cleaning “Vampires don’t do dishes” – Deacon, old vampire blood-stained dishes. The occasionally tempered Vladislav (Jemaine Clement, best remembered for the HBO series “Flight of the Conchords”) is Imagine a mockumentary about vampires in a former medieval warlord who tries to pull his Wellington, New Zealand. It is a brilliant idea in a weight around the house they all share -- he could technology/Youtube-based world where everyone hypnotize crowds of people once upon a time but wants their 15 minutes of fame, even if they have has problems shape-shifting into other creatures done nothing. The vampires depicted in “What We because, according to Viago, “He could never get Do in the Shadows” are not lazy creatures (save for the faces right.” A former European peasant and the 8,000-year-old Count Orlok-type who can’t bring Nazi vampire, Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) is more rehimself to have a flat meeting with his younger bellious, vociferous and refuses to do chores. Then compatriots); they, in fact, roam the Wellington there is Petyr (Ben Fransham), the ancient vampire bars and clubs for fresh necks to bite. The conceit of who resembles Orlok from “Nosferatu” and almost a documentary crew following them around makes never leaves the basement. Naturally, it is important for partly hysterical, partly horrifying fun. for the curtains to be drawn nightly and there is the
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