What We Do in the Shadows but in Australia

This is my short film “Love at First Bite” – a comedy about a reality dating show for vampires. Picture “What We Do in the Shadows” meets “Love on the Spectrum”.

Logline: A young vampire goes on a reality dating show to help him find love with the opposite species: humans.

Synopsis: Vladimir is a young vampire in his early three thousand’s (thirty years as he tells humans). He has dated many other vampires but has never found success in meeting that special someone. Eventually, he decides to go on a reality dating show who helps him find love by setting up a date with a human called Jessica. While their romantic dinner goes well at first, the date ends horribly when Vladimir finds out Jessica is a Christian and wears a cross around her neck – a tool of death for him.

Intention and Outline: Love at First Bite parodies all the trashy reality shows on Australian TV e.g., “Married at First Sight”, “Love Island” and “The Bachelor”. Intertwin these shows in with the comedy stylings of “What We Do in the Shadows” and a touch of “Love on the Spectrum” and you might get something like this.

Future films would involve the viewpoint of other vampires from different suburbs of Sydney on their journey to find love. By the end of the series, each should find some human who seems to be promising and gives him hope that they can actually have a relationship.

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What is a Vampire?

A vampire is a creature from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.

Vampiric entities have been recorded in cultures around the world; the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.

In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.

The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of "The Vampyre" by the English writer John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after fellow Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel Carmilla. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, television shows, and video games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.

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