What We Do in the Shadows
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Our read · What We Do in the Shadows (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, surreal comedy · horror entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of What We Do in the Shadows
What watching it is actually like.
“You want mockumentary vampire roommates bickering through modern Wellington nightlife.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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