(Jemaine Clement &
Taika Waititi/2014/New Zealand)
Vampires
are gas craic altogether, especially when they hang out together and
house share. Witness the evidence in this documentary following four
vamps of various ages living in a dingy house in Wellington, New
Zealand. There’s three young bucks Deacon, Viago and Vlad who are
really cool, dude, and then there’s 8000 year old Petyr in the
basement, a proper old school vampire who is really the coolest. Like
any house share there are disputes about cleaning up, vampire
protocol and who should be vampirised. New recruit Nick upsets the
apple cart a bit but his mate Stu is fecking rad man so the gang gets
a new sense of camaraderie. When Stu gets attacked by werewolves and
turns into one of them the vamp gang is traumatised but ultimately it
leads to a new peace between the usually antagonistic vampires and
werewolves. There are some laugh out loud moments and the overall
cadence of the film is bang on, happy go lucky new kids on the block
vibes but the conceit of the documentary stretches a smidgeon thin
towards the end and some of the gags go by a little flatly. Minor
gripes though as it is a well spent, funny 90 minutes.
(3/5)
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