Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jul 17, 2021 3/4

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

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Kristen Lopez Spectrum Culture Nov 20, 2017 3/5

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

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Martha K. Baker KDHX (St. Louis) Aug 29, 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.

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Peg Aloi Arts Fuse Aug 8, 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.

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Mary Angela Rowe Seventh Row Jul 12, 2017

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

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Kelly Vance East Bay Express Jan 1, 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.

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Paul Chambers Movie Chambers Oct 11, 2016 B

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

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Jul 21, 2016

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

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Jim Brunzell III Minneapolis Star Tribune Jun 30, 2016 3/4

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.

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Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Jun 30, 2016 B-

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

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James Verniere Boston Herald Jun 24, 2016 B minus

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

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Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 24, 2016 2.5/4

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.

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Sherilyn Connelly SF Weekly Jun 23, 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."

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Matthew Lickona San Diego Reader Jun 23, 2016 2/5

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.

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Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Jun 22, 2016 2/4

"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.

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Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue Jun 17, 2016

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

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Jun 17, 2016 A-

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

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Rex Reed Observer Jun 15, 2016 2/4

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

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Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews Jun 11, 2016 4/5

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

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Owen Gleiberman Variety Jun 10, 2016

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

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