Film Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

Gothic cinema took life-threatening gut-punches in the last decade and excluding Chan-wook Park’s Thirst, the vampire genre received the brunt of the assaults. As Hollywood searched the depths of their resources to insure their post-9/11 survival, they found an easy market to exploit — Young Adult novel adaptations. None was more recognizably stupid and nauseating than the Twilght franchise.