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Critics Consensus: Therapy for a Vampire should get a few chuckles out of vampire movie fans in search of something new, even if it never quite lives up to its daffy potential.
Critic Consensus: Therapy for a Vampire should get a few chuckles out of vampire movie fans in search of something new, even if it never quite lives up to its daffy potential.
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Dracula meets Sigmund Freud in this Austrian horror farce, which benefits from a polished production but exhausts its premise about halfway through.
Ruhm incorporates classic Hammer Films and "Love at First Bite" in this entertaining vampire spoof by keeping the pacing brisk, the jokes quick and the blood gushing.
Rühm has an ear for the absurd that reminds one of Monty Python. But his humor is as dry as they come - Therapy for a Vampire elicits ironic smiles, not belly laughs.
Rühm shows the right light touch for the material as it veers from psychological parody to romantic mixup comedy to campy horror, and his painterly depiction of Vienna is a marvel, so it's not really such a bother when things fizzle at the finale.
"Therapy for a Vampire" has nothing to say. It just has stuff happening, none of it repulsive and all of it performed by competent actors, but that's just not enough.
It aims to be laugh-out-loud hilarious but never rises above a few wan chuckles.
Director David Rühm's German language vamp-com Therapy for a Vampire gives the vampire film a much needed transfusion.
Therapy for a Vampire makes fun of vampires, but you have to love them enough to laugh at them. Otherwise, you have to have elastic eyes that roll well.
Therapy for a Vampire takes a primal urge and runs with it. There are unexpected moments of glee and grotesquerie, comic twists and turns.
Sadly, the story itself is rather dull. None of the characters are well-developed enough to invoke sympathy.
German speakers in the audience will probably be amused by the numerous puns, but the rest of us needn't worry -- the playful sight gags are just as plentiful.
Moretti personates one of the most sympathetic and likable vampires I've seen in this overworked genre for quite some time.
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