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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I don't know, if you know that the Nazi's lost... ... that war. If you were a Nazi, after the war...

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...and if you were a vampire...

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... and if you were a Nazi vampire...

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No way. I was out of there.

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Yah, I came to this country for love.

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Uh, there was a girl. Human girl. And... ... I... ... thought she was fantastic. She was... ... absolutely amazing. I was smitten. Her family emigrated to New Zealand. And, I thought, 'you know what, to hell with it. I'm gonna go. I'm going to chase her and tell her how I feel.' I told my servant Phillip, 'Send me to New Zealand.' He... ... put the wrong postage on my coffin. So the whole journey took about 18 months.

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And when I got here, she had... ... found someone else.

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She had fallen in love.

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And...

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She was married.

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She gave me this before she left.

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There she is.

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And that's me, I put myself in there too.

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She told me it was pure silver.

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Unfortunately... ... we vampires cannot wear silver.

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Yeah...

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It's about as long as I can wear that.

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Tonight, we are going out into Wellington Central. It is important that we look good. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah. One of the unfortunate things about not having a reflection is that you... ... don't know exactly what you look like. Looook!

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Look! A ghost cup!

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Floating all by itself! We can give each other feedback and help each other out until we're looking great. Yes, some of our clothes are from victims. We might bite someone and then...

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