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  Re: “Just Leave Me to Do My Dark Bidding on the Internet”: How the Undead Live at Home in What We Do in the Shadows

  I really think that what

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  Ella Tucan Georgia State University

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 — 5:05 pm

  I really think that what makes the film work so well in terms of both the horror and the humor is the blurring of the lines not only between these two registers, but also between comedy and tragedy, like you said, and significantly between the supernatura ...
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  Re: “Just Leave Me to Do My Dark Bidding on the Internet”: How the Undead Live at Home in What We Do in the Shadows

  That’s a really good parallel

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  Ella Tucan Georgia State University

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 — 5:11 pm

  That's a really good parallel to make and yes, definitely, What We Do also deals with the fear of growing up but, perhaps more than Shaun of the Dead, also the fear of growing old, especially in the way the vampires interact with humans throughout th ...
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  Re: “Just Leave Me to Do My Dark Bidding on the Internet”: How the Undead Live at Home in What We Do in the Shadows

  Oh yeah… I’d say that most of

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  Ella Tucan Georgia State University

  Tuesday, June 2, 2015 — 5:15 pm

  Oh yeah... I'd say that most of the humor in the film comes from treating something that normally would be horrifying as if it were a normal, day-to-day occurrence--which, for the vampires, it is. You can watch the first scenes here if you want to se ...