What We Do in the Shadows Page #2

Synopsis: Follow the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. Hundreds of years old, the vampires are finding that beyond sunlight catastrophes, hitting the main artery, and not being able to get a sense of their wardrobe without a reflection-modern society has them struggling with the mundane like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Production: Paladin Pictures
  25 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
2014
86 min
Website
14,065 Views


No way.

I was out of there.

Yah, I came to this country for love.

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.

And when I got here, she had...

... found someone else.

She had fallen in love.

And...

She was married.

She gave me this before she left.

There she is.

That's me, I put myself in there too.

She told me in was pure silver.

Unfortunately...

... we vampires can not wear silver.

Yeah...

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

Tonight, we are going out

into Wellington center.

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.

Look!

A ghost cup!

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...

... you think,

'ooh, those are some nice pants!'.

- Do work these?

- NO!

Change it!

When you are a vampire,

you become very sexy.

We are trying to attract victims to us.

Not sure about the waist coat.

I go for a look which I call

Dead But Delicious.

We are the bait.

But we're also the trap.

Hello, ladies.

And my love, we are ready to go

into town and party!

Vampire... vampire style.

When we go into town,

we must try to blend in.

We are walking the streets.

Coming into town.

Um, it's really cool because

just for one brief moment

I feel...

Homos!

The trouble with being a vampire is you

have to be invited in, to go in.

We would like to come into the bar, please.

Invite us into the bar, please.

Keep walking.

You invite us in!

If the humans find out what we were...

... they would destroy us.

There are between 60 and 70 vampires

in the greater Wellington region.

- Obvious vampire.

- Joline!

Hello!

How embarrassing.

He's a guy I used to work with

when I was human.

- Is he gone?

- Yeah, he's gone.

I've been draining him all night.

Been a very thirsty girl.

Being bitten as a little boy or a little girl

you always going to look the same age.

What are you doing tonight?

Going to kill some perverts?

- Yeah, we're meeting a pedophile.

- Cool.

Okay, let's just go please.

- Have a good night, guys!

- Yeah, you have a good night!

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Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand singer, comedian, musician, actor, voice actor, director, and writer. With Bret McKenzie, as the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, he has released several albums and created comedy series for both BBC and HBO. He has had featured parts in films such as Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Rio (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012) and Moana (2016). In 2014, he made his feature film directorial debut with the horror comedy mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, which he wrote, starred in and directed with Taika Waititi. He currently portrays Oliver Bird on the FX series Legion (2017–). more…

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