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There are some movies which completely defy reviewing. They’re a good time, they make you laugh, they entertain you for the duration of the movie and when it’s done, you feel satisfied that you got what you paid for. Maybe you tell your friends, maybe you don’t. But you certainly had a good time while you were there. Netherbeast Incorporated is one of those movies. There are great laughs, even better actors, a plot that keeps you interested and doesn’t leave you believing that you haven’t seen the whle story on purpose just so there can be a sequel. In short, it’s a movie, and darn good one at that.

Netherbeast Incorporated started as a short film called “Netherbeast of Berm-Tech Industries” and was a big hit. You can watch it here. Based on that short, this movie came to be. A funny, quirky tale of an office of vampires… and one human. The story begins with our main character, Otto (Steve Burns who used to host…. Blue’s Clues… yeah you heard me), taking a meeting with his boss Turner (Darrell Hammond of SNL fame), and discovering that Turner has just killed the last guy who screwed up an important proposal, but he didn’t kill him for that. Turner killed him becasue he was a vampire. Now you’re saying to yourself, ‘That sounds completely reasonable..’, until you realize that Turner is a vampire too. With Otto as our guide we begin to navagate the office ‘culture’, in which all employees are vampires (although not of the variety we’re entirely used to), and Turner is suffering from something called ‘the retardation’ (their word, not mine) causing him to lose his mind and wreak havoc on the office structure. Add to this a consultant played by Judd Nelson (if you don’t know who he is, well I’m just disappointed) and a new hire who’s human and you have the makings of a hilarious movie about what it’s like to work in an office and just happen to be a vampire.

I must say that there were some things in this movie that reminded me just a *little* too much of my actual work environment. Do you remember in Office Space where everything was pretty close to what you actually experience in everyday life if you work in an office, but it just *just* over the top enough to make you feel safe? Yeah, well this movie doesn’t do that. It pulls no punches in making you feel like a complete nob while laughing at yourself too.

Add to this an fantastic cast of those mentioned above but also including Jason Mewes, Dave Foley and, yes, Number Two himself, Robert Wagner and you’ve got the makings of a great movie. This movie won’t win any awards (or at least none that don’t come from a film festival) and it won’t be on anyone’s list of 10, but it is the kind of movie that stands the test of time. The kind you watch whenever it’s on TV. The kind that you quote from fondly as it becomes the short hand in conversation with those who’ve seen it too. It’s just a really good movie and the fact that it is makes it stand head and shoulders above all those other posers out there.

I sincerely hope that the people who made this movie make many more, because I’ll watch each and every one. Take that Hollywood.

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