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  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Summary Vienna, 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 th...

Directed By: David Rühm

Written By: David Rühm

  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 27 m
  • 2016
  • Unrated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 27 m

Therapy for a Vampire

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary Vienna, 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 th...

Directed By: David Rühm

Written By: David Rühm

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Mixed
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70
Jun 9, 2016
The strongest aspect of Therapy for a Vampire is its exquisite visual homage to the vamp films of old, and also the screwballs.
By April Wolfe FULL REVIEW
63
Jun 24, 2016
A stylish, painterly picture that evokes classic horror films from the 1930s.
By Tirdad Derakhshani FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 9, 2016
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 10, 2016
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.
By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 9, 2016
It has little bite and not nearly enough laughs or thought.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 14, 2016
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.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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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, Wirtschaft Land Salzburg, Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH, hugofilm
Release Date Jun 10, 2016
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline 500 years of marriage... is enough.
Website https://filminstitut.at/filme/der-vampir-auf-der-couch
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Awards

Austrian Film Award, AT
• 3 Nominations
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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