What We Do In The Shadows is a mockumentary about Vampires that came out last year by New Zealand filmmakers Taika Waititi ("Two Cars, One Night", "Boy," currently writing "Moana" for Disney) and Jemaine Clement ("Eagle Vs Shark", one half and writer of "Flight of the Conchords").
Without doing anything particularly new, they managed to make tired and cliched genre of mockumentary pretty hilarious. I read about 90% of the film is 'improvised' (though I believe they had a plot outline, and were imrpovising the dialogue). It was hugely popular in New Zealand, and has been reviewed incredibly well overseas. They've got distribution in a number of overseas markets, but been struggling to do so in the US.
Anyway, check out the trailer, if you like it, maybe you US folk can donate a little to their kickstarter? I know most of us can barely afford to give to crowd funding campaigns, but I think I feel some nationalistic obligation to share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1423546688/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-the-american-release/
Without doing anything particularly new, they managed to make tired and cliched genre of mockumentary pretty hilarious. I read about 90% of the film is 'improvised' (though I believe they had a plot outline, and were imrpovising the dialogue). It was hugely popular in New Zealand, and has been reviewed incredibly well overseas. They've got distribution in a number of overseas markets, but been struggling to do so in the US.
Anyway, check out the trailer, if you like it, maybe you US folk can donate a little to their kickstarter? I know most of us can barely afford to give to crowd funding campaigns, but I think I feel some nationalistic obligation to share it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv568AzZ-i8
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1423546688/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-the-american-release/