What We Do in the Shadows (2014) movie poster

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

"Some interviews with some vampires."
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👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 86%
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Director
Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Country
New Zealand, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.5/10 (3,865 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
76

Cast

Jemaine Clement as Vladislav · 74% avg
Taika Waititi as Viago · 76% avg
Jonny Brugh as Deacon
Cori Gonzalez-Macuer as Nick
Stu Rutherford as Stu
Ben Fransham as Petyr
Jackie van Beek as Jackie
Elena Stejko as Pauline (The Beast)

Is What We Do in the Shadows good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#61 / 2672 · Comedy
Rank in its year
#4 / 295 · 2014
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Movies of the 2010s (#30) · Top 250 Movies of All Time (#153)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/MovieDetails
⬆ 65,280💬 652 comments
In What We Do in The Shadows (2014), the retirement home where Viago finds Katherine is a real retirement home. Katherine was also played by one of the residents, Ethel Robinson. She was “thrilled” to be in the movie. Jermaine Clement even put fangs in her dentures.
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Top comment: "Ugh, but why? Katherine's just too young for him, oh my god the age gap"
r/MovieDetails
⬆ 55,877💬 1,008 comments
What We Do in the Shadows (2014): The main characters each pay homage to classic or well known Vampires. Petyr as Count Orlok from Nosferatu, Deacon as Bela Lugosi's Dracula, Vladislav as Gary Oldman's Dracula, Viago as Louis from Interview with the Vampire, and Nick representing Twilight.
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Top comment: "Stu, the only human character in the central cast, is a real life IT technician with no acting..."
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