‘Therapy for a Vampire’ a run-of-the-mill comedy
The United States is the Newcastle of vampire pictures, so to bring in any old lump of coal doesn’t really make sense.
Sure, some unexpected diamond from overseas might be worth it, but not a routine horror comedy like “Therapy for a Vampire.”
The first is a vampire couple, a Count (Tobias Moretti) and Countess (Jeanette Hein), who have been locked in an unhappy marriage for 500 years.
The other couple consists of a portrait painter (Dominic Oley) and his pants-wearing feminist girlfriend (Cornelia Ivancan), who engage in lots of spirited banter that doesn’t seem funny at all, at least not in subtitle.
The movie shows a kind of good-natured willingness to be amusing but without actually being amusing.
The flying effects are good, and environments are first rate — shots of an ominous sky have a gothic, horror quality that evoke other films while having a beauty in their own right.
[...] if there’s a performance to take from the movie, it’s that of Jeanette Hein as the Countess, who maintains an atmosphere of danger about her, while bringing out shadings of deadpan comedy.
