What makes a great horror comedy and, more importantly, how did What We Do in the Shadows get it right when so many vampire spoofs fail so miserably? BrookeKnisley takes a look:
— and the unmemorable ones are one-note, downright mean-spirited, or parodying already despised franchises —To incisively parody anything requires intimate knowledge. A surface-level poke at vampire tropes falls into easy gags and hack jokes.
But Jemaine Clement andmovie, seemed to look at the current state of vampirism and wonder, “If all of these vampires are centuries old…why are they dating teenagers and not having more anachronistic issues? What if vampires wanted to hold on to their old ways instead of running around with high schoolers?”franchise did, Clement and Waititi chose to #MakeVampiresScaryAgain and instead lampoon the intersections of antiquity and modernity, violence and decorum — a true “fish out of water” tale.
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