Reviews for this film from our members:
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Excerpt: Cute, and affectionately droll as it mines through the plentiful amount of vampire stereotypes…it often doesn’t exceed the limitations of its genre
- Andy Crump @ Badass Digest
- Excerpt: …who can resist a genre send-up with this much heart?
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [T]he filmmakers and the cast have created a world and characters that not only provide opportunities for humor but also evolve with it.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: What We Do In The Shadows’ Provides More Laughs Than Screams, But Still Has Plenty Of Bite
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: In the skillful comedy ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a film crew is granted permission to chronicle the lives of four flatmates who happen to be centuries old vampires.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Repeat viewings should give this a longevity that will make it an enduring cult movie for many years to come.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: An absolutely hilarious mockumentary combination of utter silliness, social satire, pop-culture cramdown, and heartfelt pathos. And vampires.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Imagine Christopher Guest’s 1984 heavy-metal mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” with bloodsuckers, and you get writer-directors Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s fresh, merry, often inspired “What We Do in the Shadows,” a New Zealand-born import that has fun sandwiching itself between two done-to-death genres.
- [New – 11/12/15] | Greg Klymkiw @ The Film Corner
- Excerpt: I should have hated this movie, but I couldn’t. It’s too good-natured and funny not to like.
- Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: An expert dissection of the modern gothic supernatural romance, taking Twilight to its logical, and hilarious, extreme.
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: … the funniest horror spoof since ‘Shaun of the Dead’ … Our Down Under hosts are less interested in creeping us out than in introducing us to the most charmingly dotty homebodies since the Addamses.’
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Francis Rizzo III @ DVDTalk
- Excerpt: Hanging with vampires in New Zealand
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: As thin as the premise gets, What We Do in the Shadows is a welcome change-up to the comedy landscape, brought to us by these proud New Zealanders.
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: The werewolves you can accept, the humans you can tolerate, but the Christians?
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: The comedy in Shadows is mostly wry and subdued rather than laugh-out-loud funny, although Clement and Waititi are wise to play the whole conceit straight.
