10 Best Vampire Films Of All Time

Comedy and vampires have always gone together, but never so successfully as in this New Zealand mockumentary. So great was the success of this film, directed by Taika Waititi, that is spawned an American TV series.

Although the five vampires in the house are hissing caricatures of classic vampire stereotypes, they are also incredibly relatable. They each have their own sets of desires and insecurities that makes them popular with vampire-lovers and normies alike.

The cool, romantic, dark-club-loitering immortals seen in Only Lovers Left Alive couldn’t be further from this gang. As they lead the documentary crew around, the audience sees that their daily schedule includes: divvying up chores in the house, laying down towels before they feed on a human, and trying (and failing) to get into the bars of Wellington.

The mundanity and dorkiness of their lives is something a lot of people can relate to. Even the status of being an immortal creature of the night can’t make these guys cool.

Like any comedy about a community (real or fake) the humour lies in the politics. In this case, that takes the form of a long-standing grudge between the vampires and the werewolves of Wellington. In true What We Do in the Shadows style, the two groups throw insults at each other in the park like thirteen-year-olds, trying to sound threatening in their good-natured New Zealand accents.

Like the vampires themselves, it’s a film that doesn’t get old.