Vampires Vs Sheep Man
Year: 2006
Running time: 42 mins
What We Do in the Shadows…New Zealand 2006
Directors: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Photography: Stan Alley
With: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, Jonathan Brugh
25 mins/Beta-SP
Sheep ManUSA 2006
Directors: Ron Eigen, Jeff
Directors Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, assisted by fellow comedian Jonathan Brugh, explore the flatting lifestyle of three perennial bachelors, vampires Vulvis (aged 700, maybe 701), Viago (229) and Deacon (107). Listless, dandified masters of the artful sigh, they waver between trying to spook the anonymous filmmaker with their doomy tales, and making silken plays for pity. If you thought never dying might be cool, they’re here to tell you about the hollowness at the core of their eternal round of irritating household chores, domestic squabbles and Saturday nights being mistaken for homosexuals in the Courtenay Quarter. Few will be impressed by their haughty approach to younger vampires, though many may admire their openness in addressing such longstanding questions as: how can any man who never sees himself in a mirror care so obsessively about clothes, hair, and skin tone? Preceded by
Sheep Man. Ron Eigen’s tale of an American sheep lover (comedian Jeff Richards) who exalts in the natural splendour of a Pencarrow sheep farm bears an eerie resemblance to Herzog’s
Grizzly Man.
