The newest vampire movie to take film festivals by storm, "What We Do in the Shadows," is the work of two New Zealanders: actor Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords") and actor/director Taika Waititi ("Boy"). Together they wrote, directed and star in a movie that was made on a small budget — "a very short shoestring; I mean, really short," Clement tells The Japan Times. "But we're used to not having a big budget, it's OK — we can deal with it. That's part of what's so great about being an indie filmmaker."

Clement and Waititi met while they were students at Victoria University of Wellington, and went on to form the legendary comedy troupe the Humourbeasts. According to Clement, he and Waititi share a common love for the wacky and supernatural, and both of them "love monsters." (Clement played Boris the Animal in "Men in Black 3.")

"We're always looking for things that will take us out of the ordinary, or make life a bit more outrageous than it is."