5 room kitchen coffin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 5 room kitchen coffin |
| Original title | What We Do in the Shadows |
| Country of production | New Zealand |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jemaine Clement , Taika Waititi |
| script | Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi |
| production | Jemaine Clement, Pamela Harvey-White , Emanuel Michael , Taika Waititi, Chelsea Winstanley |
| music | Plan 9 |
| camera | Nat Brunt |
| cut |
Tom Eagles , Yana Gorskaya , Jonathan Woodford-Robinson |
| occupation | |
5 Zimmer Küche Coffin (Original title: What We Do in the Shadows ) is a New Zealand horror comedy written by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi , who both directed and played roles in the film. It premiered on January 19, 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on February 12, 2014 at the Berlin International Film Festival .
action
The film follows a camera team that films life in a vampire shared apartment and accompanies the residents in their everyday lives. The vampires guaranteed them physical integrity for the duration of the filming. The viewer sees the entire film from the perspective of these cameramen, which gives the film the look and atmosphere of a documentary shot with a handheld camera. Four vampires live in this shared apartment, which is located in an old house in the suburbs of Wellington in New Zealand: 379-year-old Viago, an affected dandy and a cheerful person who sometimes annoys his roommates with his pedantic manner. Vladislav, 862 years old, a nobleman from the Middle Ages, with a large ego and ancient manners. Furthermore Deacon, at 183 years the youngest, is considered wild and rebellious. As a former Nazi vampire, he moved to New Zealand in 1945 due to image problems. In addition, the quiet, over 8000 year old, Nosferatu- like Petyr, who remains withdrawn most of the time in the cellar.
Occasional conflicts arise in this community, such as disputes that have not been washed for years, blood-smeared dishes, as well as problems that life as a vampire brings with it, such as dressing when there is no reflection. Although Viago, Vladislav and Deacon are each several centuries old, they look like they are in their mid-thirties. It is not easy for the trio to adapt to life in the 21st century. Deacon has a human "servant" named Jackie who runs all kinds of errands for the community and who in return is given the prospect of eternal life through a bite and the consequent becoming a vampire. For example, Jackie provides the trio with fresh supplies of victims, preferably in the form of virgins.
Jackie leads the vampires to her ex-boyfriend Nick, who is sucked out by Petyr and accidentally turned into a vampire. Several months later, Nick has mutated completely and moves into the shared apartment. He introduces his friend Stu to the others, a computer nerd who helps with various problems, brings modern technology to the vampires and is therefore not bitten by mutual agreement.
When Nick brags about his skills as a vampire during a party night, he attracts the attention of a vampire hunter, who then breaks into the vampire's quarters during the day, exposing Petyr to sunlight and killing him. Viago, Vladislav and Deacon are shaken and throw Nick out of the flat.
At a subsequent ball, the trio meets other posthuman residents of Wellington, such as zombies and witches , other vampires and Vladislav's ex-girlfriend, known as "the beast". After a fight on the ball, the four vampires and Stu encounter a troop of werewolves led by their alpha animal Anton. Stu is attacked and injured by the werewolves in an ensuing chase. However, a while later Stu appears with scars on his face and transformed into a werewolf. Eventually the vampires reconcile with the werewolves.
Cast and dubbing
The German dubbing of the film was done by Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH, Berlin .
| actor | Voice actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| Taika Waititi | Marius Clarén | Viago |
| Jemaine Clement | Tommy Morgenstern | Vladislav |
| Jonathan Brugh | Tobias Nath | Deacon |
| Ben Fransham | Alexander Doering | Petyr |
| Cori Gonzalez-Macuer | David Nathan | Nick |
| Stuart Rutherford | Alexander Doering | Stu |
| Jackie van Beek | Nana Spier | Jackie |
| Chelsie Preston Crayford | Lisa Braun | Josephine |
| Ethel Robinson | Luise Lunow | Katherine |
background
5 Zimmer Küche Coffin is based on a 28-minute short film that Clement and Waititi made in 2005. Taika Waititi said in a conversation: "When we came up with the idea, we lived in dark, cold houses where no one was washing the dishes."
The film was shot in Wellington in September 2012 , on a budget of around 1.6 million US dollars. This resulted in around 125 hours of film material, which took another year to edit. The post-production was done in the Park Road Post company . Based on a script, large parts of the film are improvised.
Reviews
The reviews of 5 room kitchen coffin were mostly positive. So counted Rotten Tomatoes 172 positive and only 7 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 30 positive, 3 mixed and no negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average rating of 7.7 out of 10 was determined from 136,692 users.
Spiegel Online praises the film as “very charming nonsense” and notes that the humorous potential of the film lies in the clash of “narrow-mindedness and morality-free eternity”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees the film as a "wonderfully subversive antidote to the gold-dusted vampires of mainstream cinema"
Andreas Busche from epd Film sees a “social study on the group behavior of vampires” in the 5 room kitchen coffin , since the lone vampire “does not necessarily have the reputation” of “having a high level of social competence”. The whole joke that Waititi and Clement play through in "every imaginable way, from deadly serious to highly absurd" is based on this speculative idea. Martin Gobbin from Critic.de also praises the fact that the two directors “unlike some younger contributions to the vampire film genre, deal intensively with traditional mythology”.
“5 Zimmer Küche Sarg conducts mockumentary- style empirical studies on the lives of four vampires. [...] The film is based on well-known television formats. Waititi and Clement became known with the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords , and 5 Room Kitchen Coffin works like a mixture of The Office and The Big Bang Theory . It is always about demonstration effects: between self-perception and perception of others and of supposedly self-evident social practices. [...] Waititi and Clement always vary the sitcom format of the flat share comedy on the basis of a reliable knowledge of vampire mythology. "
“While the original title 'What We Do in the Shadows' - for example: What we do in the dark - aims at the mysterious, the German version emphasizes the normality of this life. […] The directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who both also star, make it fun for themselves and the audience to take the bloodsucking folklore seriously. The joke of your film arises mainly from the conscientiousness that is displayed. "
Television series
On January 22nd, 2018 it was announced that the US cable broadcaster FX had commissioned a half-hour pilot episode for a television series based on a 5-room kitchen coffin . Taika Waititi will direct the pilot episode, written by Jemaine Clement. Both also take on the role of executive producer . The series, which is now set in New York , started on March 27, 2019 in the USA and on February 6, 2020 in Germany.
Web links
- Official website (German)
- 5 rooms kitchen coffin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 5 room kitchen coffin at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 5 room kitchen coffin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 029 K).
- ↑ Release information on IMDb (english)
- ↑ 5 room kitchen coffin. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Gobbin: 5 room kitchen coffin - review. In: critic.de. September 3, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Washing up the vampires. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 3, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Taika and Jemaine unleash vampires in USA. In: nzherald.co.nz . December 6, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Lesley Coffin: Review: Loving Vampire Parody 'What We Do in the Shadows' Is Pure Fun. In: The Mary Sue. February 16, 2015, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ What We Do In The Shadows on rottentomatoes.com accessed on January 27, 2020
- ↑ What We Do in the Shadows on metacritic.com accessed on January 27, 2020
- ↑ 5 room kitchen coffin on imdb.com accessed on January 27, 2020
- ↑ Tim Slagman: "5 room kitchen coffin": Unfortunately my roommate is immortal. In: Spiegel Online . October 28, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Washing the vampires. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 3, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Old Bodies, Young Love. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 30, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/5-zimmer-kueche-sarg
- ↑ http://www.critic.de/film/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-6382/
- ↑ Andreas Busche: Review of 5 room kitchen coffin. October 13, 2014, accessed April 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Cornelia Geissler: Review of 5 room kitchen coffin. October 30, 2014, accessed June 7, 2015 .
- ^ Joe Otterson: 'What We Do in The Shadows' Series Lands at FX With Pilot Production Commitment. In: Variety . Penske Media Corporation, January 22, 2018, accessed January 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Jennifer Ullrich: 5 room kitchen coffin - pilot for Taika Waititi's series reboot finally ordered. In: Moviepilot . Webedia , January 23, 2018, accessed January 23, 2018 .
- ^ What We Do in the Shadows. Everything about the What We Do in the Shadows series. A vampire flat share in New York City. In: Serienjunkies.de . Retrieved May 21, 2020 .