Maybe it's something in the water Down Under, but these fellows have managed to concoct a whole new perspective on fangsters.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
6 Mar 2015
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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.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Mar 2015
fresh:
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 into a genre threatened with creative exhaustion.
– Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Sun-Times,
6 Mar 2015
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I'm so sick of vampires I'd have pounded a stake into my own heart not to have to watch this, but it turns out to be a pitch-perfect spoof of MTV's The Real World and a sly satire on millennial slackerdom.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
6 Mar 2015
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If Twilight made you queasy and Dark Shadows felt like a missed opportunity, this pitch-perfect genre spoof is worth relishing.