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Horror and comedy are often dismissed as easy genres. Every year a plethora of films populated by jump scares and jokes about dicks are packaged up and inflicted on the public. They’re also inevitably crap. The truth is to make a horror film or a comic film is just as hard as making a sweeping war epic. To combine the two, is arguably even harder.
To say vampires have been popular in recent years is a bit of an understatement. The success of franchises like Twilight, have seen our pointy toothed friends reappear on the big screen with a vengeance, although many would argue they lack the bite of old. Of course, cinema has always faced these trends, whether it be zombies, werewolves or vampires, it always feels like one mythical beastie is on the top of the pile. However, vampires seem to have been a bit under served in their current ascent of the mountain. While I don’t harbour the dislike for Twilight that many others have, there is no denying Edward Cullen was hardly scary. They have also yet to be spoofed in a successful way. While zombies have been parodied so well that the RomZomCom is a recognised genre, vampires have seen themselves taken the mick out of in incredibly unimaginative ways, that were more likely to induce groans than laughter. That is until What We Do in the Shadows came along.
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