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What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows, released in 2014 and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, follows a household of vampire roommates navigating the mundane frustrations of shared living alongside their genuinely supernatural existence, filmed in a fly-on-the-wall documentary style. The film's premise, applying mockumentary's deadpan interview format to horror-comedy vampire characters rather than a more conventionally realistic subject, gave it a distinctive genre-blending identity within the broader mockumentary tradition established by earlier films. Its combination of genuinely well-executed practical horror and comedic effects with the vampires' recurring mundane household disputes over chores and social dynamics gave the film a specifically absurdist comedic tone distinct from more grounded mockumentary predecessors. What We Do in the Shadows' cult success led directly to a critically acclaimed television series adaptation, extending the film's specific blend of horror-comedy and mockumentary format into a sustained, multi-season creative franchise well beyond the original film's modest theatrical release.
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Borat
Borat, released in 2006 and starring Sacha Baron Cohen, follows a fictional Kazakh television journalist traveling across America and interacting with real, unwitting American subjects who believed they were participating in a genuine documentary rather than a scripted comedic film. The film's use of real, non-actor participants, often placed in situations designed to reveal underlying prejudices or social discomfort, generated significant controversy and multiple lawsuits from participants who felt they'd been misleadingly portrayed once the film's true comedic intent became clear. Its satirical target was less the fictional Kazakhstan than genuine American social attitudes toward immigrants, minorities, and social taboos, using the audience's laughter at supposedly "foreign" behavior to expose real prejudices held by the actual Americans Cohen interacted with throughout filming. Borat's combination of genuinely risky, unscripted real-world interactions and its pointed social commentary made it one of the most controversial and commercially successful comedies of the 2000s, and Cohen's willingness to maintain his fictional persona under genuinely unpredictable real-world conditions set a new bar for immersive mockumentary comedic performance.
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