This movie’s genre is a bit different than others as it is a horror-comedy which follows the life of 4 vampires living in the same flat in New Zealand. It has frightening moments of death, panic and bloodshed but still has some humorous elements.
21 March 1974, New Zealand
3 June 1974, Sheffield, England, UK
10 May 1980, Auckland, New Zealand
10 January 1974, Masterton, New Zealand
March 16, 2017
What We Do in the Shadows totally nails it from beginning to end with not a single tedious or wasted moment.March 06, 2015
The New Zealand-made art comedy What We Do in the Shadows is a bracing reminder of how the right burst of energy and style breathes fresh ideas into a genre threatened with creative exhaustion.March 06, 2015
If we see two or three more comedies this year that know what they're doing the way this one does, it'll be a very good year indeed.March 13, 2015
If Twilight made you queasy and Dark Shadows felt like a missed opportunity, this pitch-perfect genre spoof is worth relishing.March 06, 2015
Maybe it's something in the water Down Under, but these fellows have managed to concoct a whole new perspective on fangsters.June 13, 2016
Mark my words, there is something very funny going on here.June 05, 2016
The shaggy aimlessness inherent to improvised buddy comedy is jarringly stitched to the gloomy Gothic weight of the cinematography and production design, to excellent effect.June 21, 2016
What We Do in the Shadows is proof that the vampire genre is alive and well as long as it's in the right hands.July 11, 2016
It's warm, charming and hilarious - I could have died from laughing.May 22, 2016
Just about every monster movie convention gets tweaked here and there, but it never feels like Shadows is forcing the issue to tick off another box.March 06, 2015
I'm so sick of vampires I'd have pounded a stake into my own heart not to have to watch this, but it turns out to be a pitch-perfect spoof of MTV's The Real World and a sly satire on millennial slackerdom.February 26, 2015
Shadows takes what could have been a one-joke sketch and turns it into a very funny, and occasionally even touching, take on brotherhood and friendship...It's certainly more authentic and realistic than recent seasons of The Real World.