"The only rule was that everyone had to wear those fake teeth," Clement told the New Zealand Herald last year. Anything with sharp teeth, really."Ĭlement saw Scars of Dracula as a child and was fascinated by it he later formed a neighborhood "vampire gang," which involved him and his friends wearing capes and fake teeth and riding around on bicycles scaring other kids. Waititi told the New Zealand Herald in June 2014 that "I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. That love of old vampire movies has its roots in the childhoods of Clement and Waititi, both of whom are longtime fans of the genre. Watchful moviegoers will spot scenes, characters and looks from The Lost Boys, Fright Night, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu and numerous Hammer horror films, alongside the obvious mockumentary-style nods to Spinal Tap and the comedic-horror style trappings of Shaun of the Dead. The notion of the outsider is one that strongly resonates throughout the work, offering a rich, and occasionally bloody, palette on which to examine ideas of community and belonging.Īcting as an anchor amidst the fantastical elements is Stu (played by real-life friend Stu Rutherford), the unassuming human friend who assumes an Everyman role amid a raft of clever gags and loving references to old vampire films.
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Much of what powers the movie is this delicious tension between the mundane world of humans and the fantastical realm of vampires. You smile seeing them observe a sunrise on YouTube and recall your own wonder watching online video for the first time. You laugh at the vampires as they argue, hissing and flying, over who should do the dishes, even as you wince at your own memories of slobbish roommates. There is a scintillating mix of the absurd and the familiar in What We Do in the Shadows.
(You have to be invited, natch.)Īs the film builds to the "Unholy Masquerade," an annual event that brings together Wellington's supernatural community, including ravenous zombies, viewers watch the vampires attempt to balance the demands of a unique, sometimes difficult-to-sustain diet while distancing themselves from the local werewolf population (lead by Anton, played by Rhys Darby, best known to American audiences as Murray the Manager in Flight of the Conchords), sighing over old lovers and working out the nature of a burgeoning friendship with a human they just can't bring themselves to feast upon. The movie takes a pseudo-documentary style - a "New Zealand Documentary Board" logo appears at the start - with the flatmates arguing over household chores, entertaining visitors and showing the challenges of getting into clubs. Complications arise when newly created vampire Nick (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) and human friend Stu (Stu Rutherford) come into the fold. The premise: Four vampires, the medieval Vladislav (Clement), foppish Viago (Waititi), rebel Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) and cranky Petyr (Ben Fransham) share a house in Wellington, New Zealand.
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