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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- The dishes? - No, no, the...you know, the..deal?

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The deal is that he is going to give me eternal life. Um, which is...

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... very exciting. Well, I just feel like I kind of reached my potential and I wouldn't wanna, kind of, get any older before, I kinda... I just feel like I'm the best version of myself that I can be. - Yes...relax. - It's just that it's been 4 and a half years and I just... but it's...I'm doing your pot plants and I'm doing your dry-cleaning. Now I'm doing your dishes... ...and I'm doing... And the dentist? And the dentist!.. and it's just taking an awful long time, so I was just wondering... - Be gone! - Okay.

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- I see you later! - Okay.

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One of the most unfortunate things about being a vampire is that...

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... you have to drink human blood. I like to make a real evening of it. -Lovely! Play some music. Maybe give them some nice wine. It's their last moment alive so why not make it a nice experience?

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So... Tell we what you do, what do you... I'm thinking about going back to Uni, actually. Oh, you are? Put that... over there.

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University, yah? Yeah, but after that, I'm gonna travel.

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Yeah... I've really wanted to go overseas for ages, so.. saving up and I'm gonna go to Spain and Italy and London and...

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Yeah.

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There we go.

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Shit! Shit!

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Well, that didn't go so great. Um, I hit the main artery.

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So, yeah, it's a real mess in there, um...

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On the upside, I think she had a really good time.

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So, it's quite late and uh... I've managed to find a woman up, watching television. And, uh, she seems like she'd be a good victim.

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I'm just going to use hypnosis on her...

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See me...

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