SummaryVienna, 1930. Count von Kozsnom has lost his thirst for life, and his marriage cooled centuries ago. Fortunately, Sigmund Freud is accepting new patients; the good doctor suggests the Count appease his vain wife by commissioning a portrait of her by his assistant, Viktor. But it’s Viktor’s headstrong girlfriend Lucy who most intrigues the Count, ... Read More
Directed By:David Rühm
Written By:David Rühm
Therapy for a Vampire
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Jun 9, 2016
70
The strongest aspect of Therapy for a Vampire is its exquisite visual homage to the vamp films of old, and also the screwballs.
Jun 24, 2016
63
A stylish, painterly picture that evokes classic horror films from the 1930s.
Jun 9, 2016
60
Ruhm's lively pace keeps the plot's essential silliness from growing tiresome, even if it never kicks into the high-octane farce the picture seems to seek.
Jun 23, 2016
50
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.
Jun 10, 2016
50
The latest film to attempt to find the lighter side of bloodsuckers and it even adds a reasonably inspired idea into the mix. Alas, the result is a thoroughly mediocre movie that is never as amusing as it should be.
Jun 14, 2016
40
If a diagram were the same thing as a script, then Therapy for a Vampire might be a smashingly silly lark. But as written and directed by Daniel Ruehl, the film is a blueprint of mild anemic kitsch.
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Jun 27, 2016
5
The idea - to have a vampire analyzed by Sigmund Freud due to the breakdown of his marriage - is inspired. The post WWI setting creates the appropriate mood. The actor who plays Count Viktor is well cast. However, there just isn't enough to the plot. They don't use the Sigmund Freud character to full effect. It is very difficult to strike the right balance between humor and horror, and this film doesn't quite get it.
Aug 14, 2018
4
Kind of... boring and puerile. I could not see the whole thing with full attention until twenty minutes to the end but what I saw did not attire my attention too much.
Production Company:
- Film Institut
- Filmstandort Austria (FISA)
- Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
- Filmfonds Wien
- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
- Eidgenössisches Department des Innern
- Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK)
- Zürcher Filmstiftung
- Kultur Niederösterreich
- Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
- SRG - SSR
- Land Salzburg Wirtschaft
- Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH
- hugofilm
Release Date:Jun 10, 2016
Duration:1 h 27 m
Tagline:500 years of marriage... is enough.
Awards
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 3 Nominations
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
