Films like What We Do in the Shadows.
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) reads as Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
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