Vampires
In Vincent Lannoo's stylish mockumentary, a film crew is embedded with a family of Belgian vampires presided over by Georges and Bertha, adoptive 'parents' to Samson, a gormless narcissist living his 55th year in a state of arrested development, and Grace, an 'ill-bitten' teen who keeps committing suicide in a desperate attempt to be human again.
Vampires, like
True Blood, takes the supernatural at face value. Less spoof than mordant satire, it presents the St. Germains as a modern dysfunctional family dealing with many of the existential and social anxieties that confront their mortal brethren, plus a few that are peculiar to their own kind, like being exiled to Canada because your shiftless son has slept with the Grand Leader's wife!
