What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the What We Do in the Shadows franchise. The film also stars Clement and Waititi, along with Jonathan Brugh, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, and Jackie van Beek. The film's plot concerns several vampires who live together in a flat in Wellington. What We Do in the Shadows premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. It was released theatrically on 18 August 2014 by Madman Entertainment and received critical acclaim. The film earned $6.9 million on a $1.6 million budget.

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Awesome night. I'm just loving being a vampire at the moment.

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Over there, is the big Fat Lady's Arms. Ah, on Wednesday's there'll be, like a fear factor competition. You can win like t-shirts and hats and spot prizes. I can smell werewolves. Okay, we're just about to walk past some werewolves so some shit might go down! Look out guys. Don't catch fleas. - What's that, mate? - Deacon. - Sorry what? - Keep going, keep walking. - Keep walking! - We heard that mate. We've got sensitive hearing. - Have you? - Yeah. What are you filming? Some music video, is it? We don't want any trouble. - I do! - Why did you start it? - Have I got your heckles up? Huh? Why don't you go smell your own crotches, huh? - Come on Deacon, stop it. - What are you talking about? We don't smell our own crotches. We smell each others crotches. And it's a, form of... greeting. Your on camera, mate, don't, don't do it... What? It's okay, cause I know this guy. It's count Fagula.

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Hey, hey, hey! Don't swear. - Sorry... they... they... - We're werewolves. - Not swearwolves. - What are we?

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We're werewolves, not swearwolves.

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- No, listen to Anton, that's offensive... - That's a really offensive word to call people. Well, at least you're talking about a bundle of sticks. Chase this bundle of sticks... Werewolves! - Don't get it! - No, no, it's not real...Nathan, it's not real. He's just gonna take of his gloves. Ah, shit, man! What the fuck you do that for? Hey! Don't swear. We're gonna lose it. We're gonna lose it. - Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Hey. Calm down. Calm down! - Oh shit, I've still got my glasses on! - Dion! Dion!

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Hey, hey, hey, hey!

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Do the breathing! Do the breathing. Do the breathing. Count to ten mate. Count to ten. - Come on. - Hold it. Count to ten, human again. - Ten, human again. - It's alright. It's not full moon. Thanks a lot guys.

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- Enjoy your night, yeah? - You should be ashamed of yourselves, man. Great, we didn't want this to happen.

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- Come on guys. - Hey! Say it! Don't spray it, bitch! Declan! - Why are you swearing all the time?! - Well, he riled me out... - Were they actually werewolves? - Yeah. Are you okay, Stu?

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I just don't really know how to... ... approach this, cause I never done it before.

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Um, and he is a good friend. And I don't wanna...

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... I don't wanna break that friendship but.. ... then again, what do you do when someone tells you, that they're a vampire?

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I'm expecting him to be angry. He might be scared and expecting a lot of things to, to bubble to the surface.

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You probably noticed it's been...

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... I've been going through a few changes lately.

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- Yeah. - Yeah? Yeah.

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Like...

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I don't show up for lunch anymore.

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- Yeah. - How I've... ... changed all our,all our tennis games... ...to night time tennis games. Right...

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And how you went from beating me every time and now how I I've won the last three?

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