10 Best Horror Movies That Subverted Classic Cliches
8. What We Do In The Shadows
Come on, surely you know this one by now—a successful TV
adaptation, an Oscar and a few Marvel gigs for its director later, 2014’s cult vampire
comedy What We Do In The Shadows has become a modern classic of meta horror. Taking
a sideways glance at vampire mythology by imagining the brooding bloodsuckers
as modern roommates rather than tragic counts or withered aristocrats, the film
mines some hysterical laughs from its subversions of the monsters and their surprisingly
mild-mannered, good-natured existence.
Take deadpan new vampire Nick’s exasperated “I’m over being a vampire. It’s s***” upon learning his taste for chips has been replaced by an unquenchable thirst for human blood.
Anchored by some hilarious turns from Jermaine Clement and director Taika Waititi himself, this flick even finds time to poke some gory fun at werewolves as well, and the resulting surreal comedy is an unmissable bit of horror comedy genius which will leave you unable to take Nosferatu seriously again.