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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She can't, she can't see me from that angle.

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Vladislav used to be extremely powerful. He could hypnotize crowds of people. Great orgies. Twenty, thirty women. He could turn into all sorts of animals. But now he never get the faces right. He would kill anybody. Men, women. Children. Burning... everything. It was totally great. But he suffered a humiliating defeat... ... at the hands of his arch nemesis... ... The Beast.

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And, he's never been the same. See me...

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See me...

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See me...

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See me...

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Would you like to come inside?

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Ah! - Jackie, welcome! - Hello Come in!

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This is Nick. Ex-ex boyfriend. - And Josefine. - Nice house. And this is Deacon, my overseas friend from, Europe.

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Deacon and his friends need... ... victims. Hi! Please come in, welcome. They can't be people that...

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... I actually envious them or like because of course they will become victims. Hi! Josefine? No, I sat next to you in English. Remember?

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Um, you used to call me the Jaxorcist?

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No you did, no you did. Yeah. No, you started that.

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You were the one who started calling me that and then everyone..and then it kind of caught on.

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Yeah. Okay, bye then. Bye. She's in.

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Do you like that, Nick?

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Yep, that's nice.

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I will go and prepare dinner.

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Nick, are you a virgin at all?

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Um, what? Doesn't seem like... are, are you a virgin? - Yes. - Um, no. - [I knew it.]

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