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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This is my mask.

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Which I made for the occasion.

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Hey!

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- Jackie. -Yeah! - This is undead party. - Yeah, I'm a vampire. You have your?.. I'm a vampire. I'm a vampire!

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- Great. - Yeah, yeah. - So, um, who bit you? - Oh, Nick.

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- Oh great. - Yeah. - Right Okay. Deacon!

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Pretty rude, because she was my...

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... servant. She was a pretty useless servant. - I wouldn't...worry about that. - Yeah, yeah, but still, I would have been... ... appreciated if you'd asked... How's Stu? - He's good, he's there. - Oh, he's here? - Stu! STU!

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Hey, hey!..how are you? Hey!

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Has anyone looked at you like they want to eat you, at all? Ah, no... Can you hear me at the back? On behalf of the Wellington Vampire Society...

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... uh, the Lower Hut Vampire and Witch Club. And the Kurory Zombie society, we welcome you here tonight. And we're raffling a live meat pack this year, um you can inspect the prize over here to my left. It's a wonderful prize. Tickets are only 10 dollars each or 45 dollars for a book of five.

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Now without further adieu, it's my very great pleasure to introduce to you this years guest of honor. Pauline Ivanovich!

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Thank you.

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That's The Beast. Thank you. The Beast is, uh, the name I gave to my ex-girlfriend Pauline. She prefers Pauline. We had a very intense relationship. We were very...

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... sexually explosive. Last time I saw her, she impaled me and called me an asshole. She said...

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... all kinds of things that really hurt me. And all this while I was impaled on a lamp post.

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Well, everyone, I will be mingling around and I really hope that...

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... I will meet...

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... all of you.

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Hello. That's the new guy.

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