The film is based on a 2005 short film—What We Do In The Shadows: Interviews With Some Vampires—written and directed by Waititi and Clement, and starring Jonny Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Stu Rutherford in their roles of Deacon, Nick and Stu respectively. The feature film adaptation was shot in Wellington in September 2012, and was Waititi's first feature since Boy.
What We Do in the Shadows
(2014)5
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Spoken Language | english, deutsch, spanish, latin |
Runtime | 1 hr 25 min |
Budget | $1 600 000 |
Premiere: World | $7 413 165 June 19, 2014 |
USA | $3 469 224 |
Other countries | $3 943 941 |
Box Office – Budget | $5 813 165 |
Premiere: USA | $3 469 224 November 8, 2014 |
first weekend | $88 940 |
theaters | 154 |
rollout | 329 days |
Digital: World | May 5, 2015 |
Parental Advisory | Profanity, Violence & Gore, ... |
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Also Known As | Entrevista con unos vampiros United States |
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Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 38
Like a Christopher Guest movie with a widow’s peak, What We Do in the Shadows depicts a supposed "New Zealand Documentary Board" fi...
While parodies and spoofs have a long cinematic history, rarely do such works possess this kind of narrative cohesion and emotional integrity.
At heart a dotty look at oldsters struggling to adapt to an unwelcoming modernity, "Shadows" has the bones of an anarchic sitcom.
Maybe it’s something in the water Down Under, but these fellows have managed to concoct a whole new perspective on fangsters.
It succeeds not because it gets the dead-ghoul stuff right (sudden flights, tomb bedrooms, Lestat-like wardrobes), but because it sends up the true...
However tired one may be of the mockumentary format, the shtick is well suited for this material; in fact, it’s easy to imagine a straig...
While it’s hardly a genre mile-, er, tombstone, What We Do in the Shadows is cleverly executed throughout and occasionally inspired in i...
A surprisingly delicate vampire spoof that’s both hilarious and respectful, and that captures all the silliest, scariest and saddest aspects...
The Kiwi team have brought a surprisingly fresh – and fetid – tone to this consistently amusing mockumentary.
It’s funny because of the absurdity of vampires in this context. And it’s funny because the context itself is hackneyed to begin with...
There is so much love and understanding of all the genres the film is skewering that "What We Do in the Shadows" transcends its lowbrow inspiration...
Just when it looked like the vampire genre had been bled dry, along comes the insanely inspired horror-satire "What We Do in the Shadows" to give i...
A fresh, unexpected and welcome take on vampires-from New Zealand, of all places.
More often amusing than gut-busting, but it doesn’t wear out its welcome, and that’s fairly impressive in itself.
Proves that some tropes, like the undead and roommate problems, are eternally funny.
A farce nearly on a par with "Zoolander" (2001), "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," (2006) and that gold standard of inanity, "Thr...
So smart and perceptive about the quotidian ups and downs of its protagonists' lives that it’s almost a jolt when, say, they start levit...
You’ve got to love a thing to skewer it as thoroughly as Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement do in their delightfully silly vampire mockum...
While individual gags and cineliterate nods (from Nosferatu to Blade) may have comical bite, there’s not enough meat to sink its feature-leng...
What We Do In the Shadows leaps to the top of the pack, by resolutely sticking to deadpan humour and absurd riffs on the awkwardness of being a vam...
It’s a cheerfully horrific affair, a sanguine comedy that feels more than a bit like a Christopher Guest farce or an elaborate Mont...
"What We Do in the Shadows" is an irrepressibly charming B-movie that never over-stays its welcome, and is both conceptually clever and admirably w...
While it’s hardly a genre mile-, er, tombstone, What We Do in the Shadows is cleverly executed throughout and occasionally inspired in i...
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 int...
If Twilight made you queasy and Dark Shadows felt like a missed opportunity, this pitch-perfect genre spoof is worth relishing.
Is this New Zealand mockumentary just one comedy sketch stretched to movie length? Maybe. But when the aging vampires hit the town to party with we...
Most of the best gags are in the early going and the film seems ever more stretched and thin as it goes on. It would have made a brilliant eig...
There’s little about the film you would call profound or sophisticated. But it has at least one very funny line a minute, and it’s...
Darkly, edgily funny, the mockumentary about four nocturnal, bloodsucking flat-mates in Wellington, New Zealand reduced me to a quivering laugh zom...
Some genre fans who prefer the silly to the satiric may bite, but the anemic pic isn’t remotely weird or witty enough for cult immortality.
The question should be, does it have a new thought, a new energy? I would say yes, even without the driving force of a real story. T...
The film does repeat itself and seems a little stretched at feature length – but there is plenty of hilarity along the way.
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.
Pleasingly thorough and inventive in its treatment of a well worn subject, and quietly smart about dealing with the way things can change over...
What We Do in the Shadows is the vampire mockumentary you’ve been longing for.
No deep meaning or social relevance, only welcome diversion from these troubled times-i.e. superbly silly fun.
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We’re werewolves, not swearwolves.
I go for a look which I call dead but delicious.
Leave me to do my dark bidding on the internet!
I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool.
Just pay attention. Pay attention to what you’re doing.
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The movie was made by talented people who skillfully took all the stereotypes about the cinematic and literary undead, presented in a very funny format. The film is filled with hilarious moments, be it the desire of vampires to get into a nightclub, friendship with a mortal, washing dishes, or showdowns with werewolves. Translated to English
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Really funny comedy. Every hero was a golden character. It’s very rare for me to find a good comedy, but Taika Waititi did what I needed. The dubbing actors are simply handsome, I really liked their performance. Translated to English
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Original. There are a couple of good jokes. In general, at some point the absurdity goes beyond boundaries, and you can’t stop smiling. Translated to English
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A good parody and a pleasant "documentary" about vampires. The film was recommended by everyone who could and was almost always heard (probably because of Taika Waititi). There are good jokes and the film is not off-putting like other "parodies". Great with popcorn or with friends! Translated to English