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* ''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' in the first part in ''Pit of Death'', Dracula targets the blind wife of a man that's trying to rally the villagers to attack him. Since she's blind, she unaware of Dracula slipping into their home and he quickly seduces and feeds on her.
* Used in ''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'':
** In "Day of Blood! Night of Redemption!", Lila has locked herself in her dorm and lies in bed mourning the death of her girlfriend. Dracula slips through her door as a mist and she's terrified because she recognizes him and had seen him kill before. A moment later his shirt comes off and his [[VampiresAreSexGods raw, primal sex appeal]] overpowers both her fear and her protests of being lesbian. He feeds during sex, dooming her to become his [[SingleTargetSexuality obsessed slave]].
** In "the Savage Return of Dracula", an unconscious Jeanie is left as bait on a bed in Castle Dracula, a crucifix around her neck to protect her. Dracula returns from a hunt and finds her in one of his rooms. He attempts to attack her when Frank counterattacks, [[spoiler: but he is overpowered and left for dead. Jeanie awakens and Dracula hypnotizes her to throw away the cross. Now that she is defenseless, Dracula drains her dry]].

* ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'', a number of the vampires are created like this. One noteable example is Megumi, the first to fall prey to the shiki and rises as one herself, invades Natsuno (Even being polite enough to take her shoes off. It's Japan, a custom and all) and walks up the stairs. Natsuno hears her coming but can't move due to some kinda spell on him. Megumi seemingly stops and he thinks she left. Only for her to somehow appear ''underneath the bed of where his friend is sleeping'' before sliding out from underneath it like a snake. Subverted though in that she doesn't bite him, rather she goes after said friend, Tohru, as she's jealous of the attention Natsuno gives him.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Edward breaks into Bella's room at night. Infamously, he doesn't feed on her blood, he watches her sleep. A month before they met too.

* In ''Film/FemaleVampire'', the Countess first comes to Anna in her sleep, whispering in her dreams that the reporter has been marked as her prey. Later, she stalks Anna around her house, appearing and disappearing at will. Anna is so deep in her power that she's both terrified and aroused, even breaking down crying when the Countess seemingly leaves without touching her. Upon the Countess' return, [[CoitusEnsues Lesbian Sex Ensues]] before the Countess finishes Anna off--biting her throat or [[OutWithABang through oral sex]], depending on the [[ReCut version of the film]].

* Played straight and subverted in ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust''. In the opening scene, Meier Link breaks into Charlotte's bedroom window as is par for the course, but their actual relationship is quite different.

There are several ways to fall prey to a vampire. [[WhatAnIdiot Walking around alone at night is just asking for it]]. [[VampiresOwnNightClubs Picking up strangers at noisy clubs is the hip modern way]]. Then there is the traditional method: vampires are fond of using EnterStageWindow to get in the victim's bedroom. They might open the window, break it, turn into a mist to seep past, or even [[OffscreenTeleportation just seemingly teleport in]]. Then it's straight for the bed, leaning over the sleeper, and chomping down on the neck.

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' makes mention of the trope in some setting fluff; a vampire named Cleopatra tells a KarmicTransformation story of TheBeautifulElite insulting a beggar who then breaks into their room and turns them into a vampire; specifically PunishedWithUgly to become a hideous nosferatu-type.

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* In the ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'' manga, [[spoiler: Alucard decides the best way to announce his return, after decades of un-existence, is by trying to sink his mouthful of fangs into a sleeping Integra's neck. She empties a pistol into him before he can]].

* While he's not ''technically'' a vampire, Shuu Tsukiyama from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is introduced in a manner that invokes this trope. The wealthy predator climbs through the window of an attractive young woman, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes while she cowers in fear. We next see her wandering the streets, screaming for help... with [[EyeScream empty, bloody sockets]]. He's later seen dining on the stolen eyeballs, while enjoying a glass of blood.
* ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'', a number of the vampires are created like this. One noteable example is Megumi, the first to fall prey to the shiki and rises as one herself, invades Natsuno (Even being polite enough to take her shoes off. It's Japan, a custom and all) and walks up the stairs. Natsuno hears her coming but can't move due to some kinda spell on him. Megumi seemingly stops and he thinks she left. Only for her to somehow appear ''underneath the bed of where his friend is sleeping'' before sliding out from underneath it like a snake. Subverted though in that she doesn't bite him, rather she goes after said friend, Tohru, as she's jealous of the attention Natsuno gives him.

* ''ComicBook/DraculaLives'' in the first part in ''Pit of Death'', Dracula targets the blind wife of a man that's trying to rally the villagers to attack him. Since she's blind, she unaware of Dracula slipping into their home and he quickly seduces and feeds on her.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'': A variation occurs in "Red Rain". Tanya repeatedly visits Bruce in his sleep and bites him to infect him with vampirism, without actually drinking his blood. As a result, Batman gains vampire powers while still remaining essentially human, giving him the strength to fight Dracula.

* In ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', Ellen's plan to destroy Orlok is to wait for him to attack her in her bed and allow him to slowly feed to distract him from the lethal sunrise.
* ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' plays with this. Schrek doesn't attack Greta in her room, it's a movie set, the bedroom from the climax of ''Nosferatu''. Per the arrangement with Murnau, Schrek only receives his payment for playing "himself" in the movie in the scene were Orlok feeds on Ellen.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', of course.
** Dracula in bat-form attempts to fly into Lucy's open window just in time for her to close it.
** Dracula is lurking outside Mina's window, but she has an inconvenient nurse inside with her. He's got them both under his spell but they're mindlessly following his commands and Dracula can't get the nurse to leave the room and Mina to let him in.
* ''Film/TheLostBoys'': Sam is hauling one of the creepy taxidermy animals into the closet. When he turns around, half-vampire Michael has come in the room by the second story window. After some arguing between the brothers, Star arrives, first yelling up to them from the ground, then suddenly floating by the window.
* In ''Film/CatsEye'', a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent tiny troll]] lurks in the walls of a young Creator/DrewBarrymore's bedroom and steals her breath while she sleeps.
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', at first Dracula lures Lucy out of the mansion and into the over-large gardens of the estate for sex and blood. From then on, Lucy eagerly awaits him, writhing and moaning in her bed as he approaches. The final night he crashes through the window as a wolf, rips open her throat and laps up her blood, and she dies with cries of agonized pleasure.

* Done in the both ''Film/CountYorga'' films:
** In the first Yorga does this twice. First by attacking the van where Erica and her boyfriend Paul are sleeping. And later mesmerizes Erica to open the upstairs balcony to let him in and finish feeding on her.
** Second film, Yorga sends his army of brides to break into Cynthia's household where they promptly feed on her family before subduing and kidnapping her. And later goes after a girl he bitten earlier, Mitzi, in her the houseboat her boyfriend and she are staying in. Killing him, finishing his feeding and adding her to his brides.
* In ''Series/HouseOfFrankenstein1997'', Crispian manages to locate Grace's apartment but she is out of the house with Vernon. However Felicity arrives at their apartment just as he does, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuNirc-ZcUo cue Crispian deciding to make a new vampire servant.]]
* In ''Film/FemaleVampire'', the Countess first comes to Anna in her sleep, whispering in her dreams that the reporter has been marked as her prey. Later, she stalks Anna around her house, appearing and disappearing at will. Anna is so deep in her power that she's both terrified and aroused, even breaking down crying when the Countess seemingly leaves without touching her. Upon the Countess' return, [[CoitusEnsues Lesbian Sex Ensues]] before the Countess finishes Anna off--biting her throat or [[OutWithABang through oral sex]], depending on the [[ReCut version of the film]].
* In ''Film/TheVampireAndTheBallerina'', the vampire first attacks Louisa in an alley. Later, he comes to her in her bedroom and she doesn't resist him.
* In ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires'', Katrina enters a motel room unaware that Valek is waiting for her on the ceiling. She's terrified when he descends on her, but afterward she's shaking in ecstasy as he feeds between her legs.
* Inverted in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', Claudia is brought home after Louis nearly kills her, Lestat turning the girl as a gift. For her first meal, Lestat summons a maid to Claudia's bedroom, who he hypnotizes and drapes over the bed for his new daughter to feed on.
* ''Film/SistersOfSin'', Terri is sleeping in her husband's arms when the vampire comes through the window. She sees him enter and immediately goes to him and disrobes; they kiss as he leads her back to the bed before biting her throat. Her moans of pleasure awaken her husband but the vampire breaks his neck with one hand, before resuming feeding on her blood. A rescue party starts pounding on the door calling for her husband to open up, when they break the door down it's too late to save her and the vampire is gone.
* In ''Film/DraculaReborn'', Melanie is doing a strip-tease when the vampire enters the room through the balcony. He dispatches her boyfriend quickly enough while her back is turned, but the movie reserves the {{Gorn}} for the women's deaths. She's grabbed and bitten from behind before being thrown onto the bed. He slowly drains her blood while she kicks and screams, occasionally letting her go and demanding an explanation for her actions. Eventually he laments that she's not "enjoying his pleasure", finally throwing her head to the side, biting into the other side of her throat, and slowly drinking her to death.
* ''Film/CountDraculasGreatLove'':
** Marlene is in bed and reading the book about Dracula that she and Irme discovered earlier. She falls asleep and has a color-inverted dream of the prophecy of Dracula's ultimate victory--Dracula entering the bedroom of a true virgin who gives her blood willingly out of love and granting him his full power.
** Irme and Marlene are having an affair while they're stranded in Dr. Marlow's sanitarium, and he sneaks into her bedroom the first night. Unfortunately the next night sees him turned into a vampire en route to her room. She's delighted when he enters and frightened when he steps into the light and reveals his HellishPupils and fangs; but ultimately she's enthralled and doesn't resist as he bites into her neck, eventually writhing in ecstasy when he releases her throat and leaves a bloody trail of kisses down her body.
** Irme comes for Karen while she sleeps, but she awakens and screams at the sight of him. Dr. Marlow is across the hall with Senta and comes running to help, bursting into the room as Irme grapples with Karen trying to reach her throat. He overcomes Irme and throws him out the window where he is impaled on a WoodenStake.

* The original ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' would be the TropeCodifier with a helping hand from PopCulturalOsmosis. Dracula never technically enters Lucy's bedroom. On the first occasion, he hypnotizes her to leave the house and go down to the park. Thereafter, he goes to her bedroom window as a bat and she climbs partway out of it to be drained. When vamping [[spoiler: Mina]], he was able to enter because an inmate of the asylum she was sleeping in gave him leave.
* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'', features "the Window". A girl sees a monster lurking out her window and she's too frightened to do anything. She unfortunately gives it the time to smash its way in, grab her, and bite into her throat. Her screams allow her brothers to save her and chase it off. [[PoliceAreUseless The police pass it off as an escaped lunatic who thinks he's a vampire]]. Months later, the vampire comes clawing at her window again, but she screams at the sight of it and her brothers are able to track and kill it.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Edward breaks into Bella's room at night. Infamously, he doesn't feed on her blood, he watches her sleep. A month before they met too.
* The first chapter of ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'' has the eponymous bloodsucker break into Flora Bannerworth's bedroom. She sees him coming but is paralyzed with fear. He returns another night, but she shoots him.
* Seen in Literature/{{Discworld}}:
** Subverted in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'' where a vampire abjectly fails to get into the rooms at the inn where the three witches are staying. The youngest witch, Magrat, fails to get the point , declares the room too stuffy, and opens the heavy shutters. Concussing the vampire on the other side who is trying to get in.
** Otto Chriek, a "[[VegetarianVampire black ribboner]]" vampire in ''Literature/TheTruth'', reminisces about his past experience doing this, preying on not-always-unwilling bosomy young ladies in negligees.

* In "Literature/GenreSavvy", this is briefly discussed. Edgar believes you can escape being in a horror movie by being GenreSavvy and says that nobody in a horror film is killed at home in bed. Charlotte counters by reminding him that vampires traditionally do just that.

* The pilot for ''Series/{{Angel}}'' shows how a wealthy vampire gets around the whole invitation thing - he owns the apartment buildings he leases to young women. Technically speaking, they're ''all'' his houses.

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' vampires prey on your dwarves this way. When Vampires go on "break" they will hunt for a sleeping dwarf to feed on. Being ''Dwarf Fortress'', [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the players have learned to make use]] of vampires, [[AndIMustScream by sealing it away from any other dwarves]]. An entombed vampire can't feed on sleeping dwarves, won't die aside from ghost-related violence, and is doomed to an eternity of managing work orders or pulling levers.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'': NPC Count Vladislaus Straud can use this tactic. The player can also invoke this trope if their Sim is a vampire with the Eternally Welcome power.

* In ''Webcomic/BracefaceFangface'', Maria is attacked by vampires and wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom. Her boyfriend, Brock, has been turned and she's been offered as his first meal. They argue over the matter, and Brock gets some advice on being a proper vampire in the process, but he overpowers her and hypnotizes her into letting him drink.

* In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight''. Drac does this as in the novel, but the difference here is that after he first bites Lucy and Seward becomes aware of what's going on. He sends for his brides from Transylvania and has them infiltrate the Westenra Estate as maids to help him. Later his brides attack the carriage of [[spoiler: Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother]] to bring her to Dracula to feed on and finally, after losing Carfax Abby, Drac relocates his operations to the manor of a socialite associate of the Westenras, Mrs. Petri, whom the brides and he quickly feed on and turn to allow access to her home.

* The {{Music/Vocaloid}} KAITO has a parody song called "Lord of Darkness", in which he plays a vampire who ends up breaking into MEIKO's bedroom, not to feed on her, but because he's fallen in love with her and wants to see her. [[RealityEnsues She gets him arrested for it.]]

* While he's not ''technically'' a vampire, Shuu Tsukiyama from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is introduced in a manner that invokes this trope. The wealthy predator climbs through the window of an attractive young woman, complimenting her on her beautiful eyes while she cowers in fear. We next see her wandering the streets, screaming for help.....with [[EyeScream empty, bloody sockets]]. He's later seen dining on the stolen eyeballs, while enjoying a glass of blood.

** In "Day of Blood! Night of Redemption!", Lila has locked herself in her dorm and lies in bed mourning the death of her girlfriend. Dracula slips through her door as a mist and she's terrified because she recognizes him and had seen him kill before. A moment later his shirt comes off and his [[VampiresAreSexGods raw, primal sex appeal]] overpowers both her fear and her protests of being lesbian. He feeds during sex dooming her to become his [[SingleTargetSexuality obsessed slave]].

** ''Film/DraculaHasRisenFromTheGrave'', Maria is standing at her balcony door when Dracula comes for her and she slowly retreats to her bed

** By the end of the story, the vampirism becomes so rampant that the invitation rule is overrided by the corruption and vampires soon start entering house freely of their own will until the whole town populated by the undead.

See also KissOfTheVampire and VampireBitesSuck. In most cases, the vampire's feeding doesn't awaken the victim at all or they're enjoying it and so the bite leans toward Kiss. Sometimes they do awaken from the pain which places it in Bite territory.

** The whole "break in and feast on them while sleeping" thing is so common that there's an even old-school slang term for vampires who do it: "cauchemars," or nightmares.

** Subverted in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'' where a vampire abjectly fails to get into the rooms at the inn where the three witches are staying. The youngest witch, Magrat, fails to get the point , declares the room too stuffy, and opens the heavy shutters. Concussing the vampire on the other side who is trying to get in.
** Otto Chriek, a "[[VegetarianVampire black ribboner]]" vampire in ''Discworld/TheTruth'', reminisces about his past experience doing this, preying on not-always-unwilling bosomy young ladies in negligees.

While a hallmark of the ClassicalMovieVampire, [[DiscreditedTrope it's fallen out of favor in modern times]], as vampires are far too hip and sexy to waste time skulking outside windows. Keep this in mind and do '''not''' list every time a vampire attacks somebody ''outside'' a bedroom as an [[AvertedTrope aversion]].

%%* ''FanFic/ResistingTheIncubus'': Alejandro's approach to getting into a potential victim's house.

** ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', as usual, Dracula attacks Lucy. She is awake in bed, watching as Dracula appears on the balcony and waits for him to come to her.

** In ''Webcomic/DraculaRulerOfTheNight''. Drac does this as in the novel, but the difference here is that after he first bites Lucy and Seward becomes aware of what's going on. He sends for his brides from Transylvania and has them infiltrate the Westenra Estate as maids to help him. Later his brides attack the carriage of [[spoiler: Minerva Westenra, Lucy's mother]] to bring her to Dracula to feed on and finally, after losing Carfax Abby, Drac relocates his operations to the manor of a socialite associate of the Westenras, Mrs. Petri, whom the brides and he quickly feed on and turn to allow access to her home.

** ''Film/TheBridesOfDracula'', Baron Meinster does this when Gina is by herself after Marianne leaves her room after they talk, coming in silently through an open window while she's looking at a mirror. By the time she senses he's there and turns to, he quickly mesmerizes her before going to feed on her. Later in the film, he pulls this with Marianne. But, unlike Gina and despite having ample opportunity to feed on Marianne right then and there with no resistance, he decides to kidnap her and bring her in front of Helsing so he can turn her in front of the hunter as a final insult.

** Second film, Yorga sends his army of brides to break into Cynthia's household where they promptly feed on her family before subduing and kidnapping her.