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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And then... ... it opened it's wings, like this.

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And hovered above me... screeching....ah! haha-haa! 'Now you are vampire.' And it was Petyr.

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And we're still friends today.

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Vlad, you were great. You put out the recycling. Which was really cool. And!.. The other day, I dragged mans body down the hallway, and noticed that there was no dust.

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Like, I kind of... I kind of swept the hallway. Vladislav, is just like... ... this older vampire who grew up in the medieval times. And you know, to be living this long and to have seen the things that he's seen and still like, kind of have it together, I mean, hat's off to him. Bloody hell!

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Sorry! He's a really great guy. A bit a of a pervert. He has some pretty old ideas about things. We should get some slaves!

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When I first became a vampire... ... I was quite tyrannical. I was known for torturing a lot of people.

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This is my torture chamber.

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I don't come in here, often anymore.

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I tended to torture when I was in a bad place. My thing was, I would poke someone with implements. I was known as 'Vladislav The Poker'.

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It's been like this the whole time... - Okay, so... - Viago is a little...

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... pedantic. The washing and the rubbish, I did that. Deacon, on dishes and it still hasn't moved in 5 years. He was an 18th century dandy. So, he can be very fussy. He nags and nags... I went in to the lounge the other day and there was blood all over my nice antique couch. Which one, the red one? Well, it's red now, yeah. If you're going to eat a victim on my nice clean couch put down some newspaper on the floor and some towels. It's not hard to do. We're vampires! We don't put down towels. Some vampires do. Well, not serious ones! When you get 4 vampires in a flat obviously there's going to be a lot of tension. There's tension in any, any flatting situation. It's settled then. We all do our jobs, starting with a certain Deacon... - I will do my dishes! - Good then!

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This is bullshit.

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I uh, became a vampire when I was 16.

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That is why I always look 16.

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In those days, of course, life was tough for a 16 year old.

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Vampires have had a pretty bad rap.

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We're not these mopey old creatures who live in castles. And while some, most of us are, a lot are... but... There are also those of us, who like to flat together in really small countries like New Zealand.

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I was a...Nazi vampire.

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After the war, which the Nazi's lost...

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