After years of an extraordinary rebirth in popular culture that has seen the vampire figure invading our screens, big and small; from the young adult-oriented Twilight saga to animated family films such as Hotel Transylvania; TV series like True Blood or such critically acclaimed arthouse works as ‘Let the right one in’ or Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Only lovers left alive’, the ubiquity of this classic horror creatures is now close to saturation point.
Last thing we could have expected then is for a deadpan comic approach to help relieving our fatigue, but that’s what Kiwi actors/directors Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement, one half of the celebrated comedy band Flight Of the Conchords, have achieved with this mockumentary about the everyday life of a vampire household in Wellington, their immortal habits crashing with the pitfalls of modern living as the source of its jokes.