You may not laugh out loud, but you'll enjoy the time spent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 17, 2021

Director David Rühm's German language vamp-com Therapy for a Vampire gives the vampire film a much needed transfusion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2017

Therapy for a Vampire makes fun of vampires, but you have to love them enough to laugh at them. Otherwise, you have to have elastic eyes that roll well.

| Aug 29, 2017

Therapy for a Vampire takes a primal urge and runs with it. There are unexpected moments of glee and grotesquerie, comic twists and turns.

| Aug 8, 2017

Sadly, the story itself is rather dull. None of the characters are well-developed enough to invoke sympathy.

| Jul 12, 2017

German speakers in the audience will probably be amused by the numerous puns, but the rest of us needn't worry -- the playful sight gags are just as plentiful.

| Jan 1, 2017

Moretti personates one of the most sympathetic and likable vampires I've seen in this overworked genre for quite some time.

| Original Score: B | Oct 11, 2016

Dracula meets Sigmund Freud in this Austrian horror farce, which benefits from a polished production but exhausts its premise about halfway through.

| Jul 21, 2016

Ruhm incorporates classic Hammer Films and "Love at First Bite" in this entertaining vampire spoof by keeping the pacing brisk, the jokes quick and the blood gushing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2016

Ruhm's love for darkness remains throughout the effort, emerging with a degree of creativity when dealing with the same old undead business.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 30, 2016

Nice production values and gore scenes, but too familiar and ultimately toothless.

| Original Score: B minus | Jun 24, 2016

Rühm has an ear for the absurd that reminds one of Monty Python. But his humor is as dry as they come - Therapy for a Vampire elicits ironic smiles, not belly laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 24, 2016

The key is the proudly silly script, which packs in every pun it can - and a few it probably shouldn't have - while indulging in wordplay such as "I want you the way you were before I wanted you to be the way I wanted."

| Jun 23, 2016

Rühm shows the right light touch for the material as it veers from psychological parody to romantic mixup comedy to campy horror, and his painterly depiction of Vienna is a marvel, so it's not really such a bother when things fizzle at the finale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 23, 2016

"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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2016

Despite some scattered big laughs and stylish visual touches, the uneven farce struggles to find a consistent tone.

| Jun 17, 2016

This is an all around well-crafted and funny comedy.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 17, 2016

It aims to be laugh-out-loud hilarious but never rises above a few wan chuckles.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 15, 2016

A droll and loving homage to those classic Universal horror films from the 1930s . . . with a dash of Hitchcock's VERTIGO

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2016

An undead count seeks out the assistance of Sigmund Freud in a nudge-nudge Austrian monster comedy that's all anemic kitsch.

| Jun 10, 2016