It’s been nearly ten years since New Zealand writer-director-actors Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi released What We Do in the Shadows in 2014.
The film is shot in a mockumentary style, combining interviews with its main characters and cinéma vérité style filming.
Since then, the world has been given two TV spinoffs that have created a vampire universe that seems to expand from Wellington to Staten Island and beyond.
The What We Do in the Shadows film featured several vampires, namely, Viago (Waititi), Vlad (Clement), and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh).
Both the show and movie are full of sardonic humor that pokes at historic events its main characters have lived through and the misadventures that accompany vampire roommates, like when your vampire roommate doesn’t do the (literal) bloody dishes.
What We Do in the Shadows is that niche form of entertainment that manages to merge fantasy with real-world issues in a way that feels perfectly stitched together.
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