Profesor Brofman
2011 · 15m · España
Directed by David Macián
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
When husbands begin behaving strangely, snarling, suffering sudden attacks of violence and even trying to bite, their wives can call Professor Brofman, who will swiftly come and solve the problem: perhaps the husband has become a vampire.
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A vampire-husband pest control service played completely straight—it's the kind of absurdist premise that shouldn't work but does, because Macián commits to the bit without winking, which is exactly when dark comedy stops being clever and becomes actually subversive.
Macián deploys the domestic-horror-meets-service-industry conceit with formal precision, positioning the film squarely in a lineage of European absurdist comedy that values deadpan tone and careful compositional control over easy laughs.
The whole film hinges on the choice to keep Professor Brofman himself utterly mundane—he's not a eccentric character actor turn but a professional doing his job—and that single commitment to restraint is what makes the vampire husband chaos actually land.