What we do in the Shadows

I'm not usually into movies from other countries. I don't enjoy reading subtitles, as it prevents me from fully viewing what's going on. I obviously liked What we do in the Shadows more than most foreign films because not only was it from New Zealand, where English is spoken, but it was also a comedy. It seems as if all the foreign movies I've ever seen are about a girl who's family was all murdered, or a mother who killed all of her young kids, or a brother and sister living on their own because their parents died (all examples based on real movies). I don't go to the movies to be sad, I go to see something exciting, interesting, funny, or special. If all I see is death and pain, what's the point? Anyway, the film I'm focusing on is a comedic mockumentary about a group of vampires living together as flatmates. It shows us what the daily lives of vampires would be like if they really existed in the modern world. Throughout the film, they do things you'd expect a real vampire to do, and it can be funny simply due to the absurdity of it all, but that type of humor only works for so long. After a while, the audience begins to get used to the situation, and it stops being funny. It takes work to make a feature-length film amusing the whole way through, and you can't just rely on the absurdity of the situation to make the audience laugh for two hours. I think it got a bit dull towards the end as I stopped being interested in watching their daily lives, but at a few moments it picked up again. These moments alone make it worth watching. The originality of the story is what I like most about it, though. There are vampire movies, documentaries, comedies, vampire documentaries, documentary comedies and vampire comedies, but I don't think I've ever heard of a vampire-documentary-comedy. Wow. That got a bit complicated, didn't it? What I'm trying to say is that What we do in then Shadows is unlike anything else I've seen, and it keeps it's comedic value up most of the time. It may lack a real meaning, but I'm sure something can be dug up somewhere in the script. It also has a lot of character depth that isn't shoved in your face, so you can slowly digest each vampire's history and point of view on the world. A-.