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* ''{{Gantz}}'' has this trope in spades, to the point where we see a metal tub being filled with blood after a vampire cut a few womens' heads off. They don't care how they get the blood - they just want it.

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* The traditional bitemarks are {{lampshaded}} in Joann Sfar's ''Vampire Loves''- protagonist Ferdinand bites his unknowing victims with one fang, so that they think it's a mosquito bite.

* In the Dracula-display segment of ''Waxwork'', the vampires not only drink the fiance's blood, they [[spoiler:butcher his leg ''while he's still alive'', then share the raw meat with his bride as "steak tartar"]].

* In Brian Lumley's ''{{Necroscope}}'' series, the vampires are all savage and vicious, even to each other. More to the point, due to the fact that they can reshape their bodies, their feeding habits range from using oversized jaws to tear open human torsos, to forming tentacular siphons and draining their victims dry. And it gets worse when the vampire in question has the power of Necromancy...

* In the ''MastersofHorror'' special "The V Word", the head vampire has no fangs to bite a victim's throat... so he tears out a hunk of flesh and laps up the blood. In another scene, a vampire slashes a man's throat with a piece of glass so his hungry friend can feed.

** In addition, there is the Nagaraja bloodline, whose members need to eat the flesh (major organs, mainly) as well as the blood of their victims, and a Flaw called 'Conspicuous Consumption' -- a delusion that causes the same effect to other vampires. Needless to say, "The Kiss" is not an option to these vampires unless they want to be humane and put down their victim painlessly by blood drain first.
*** Their spiritual descendents in ''VampireTheRequiem'' are the Noctuku, a Nosferatu bloodline that has the irrestistable urge to devour the flesh of their prey. Of course, they can't ''digest'' it, which makes their dinners rather... unpleasant. For bonus points, they actually revel in this, and prefer hunting other vampires to anything else.

*** While they still experience the pleasurable intoxication that most vampire bites cause, victims of the Eupraxus bloodline have a problem when it comes to being fed from - the vampire cannot lick the wound to close it. This often leads to the unfortunate situation of a human haemorrhaging to death while still moaning pleasureably, at least until the intoxication wears off. And because their bitemarks don't heal, being embraced by one of these vampires leads to an eternity of wearing scarves or roll neck jumpers just to cover the holes in your throat.

** When he did turn the reporter, he took his time and the death itself seemed very sensual. The interesting part was that the reporter had blond hair, dark skin, and blue eyes, similar to Integra Hellsing, his master; also, his eyes were on her the entire time. One may infer that it may have been an indirect way of saying [["This could be you" ShipTease]].

The GoryDiscretionShot is seldom used with a violently hungry vampire, so the viewer is treated to seeing the HighPressureBlood fountaining everywhere, and the police or intrepid [[YouMeddlingKids meddling kids]] are treated to the messy aftermath.

** When he did turn the reporter, he took his time and the death itself seemed very sensual. The interesting part was that the reporter had blond hair, dark skin, and blue eyes, similar to Integra Hellsing, his master ;also, his eyes were on her the entire time. One may infer that it may have been an indirect way of saying "This could be you".

* Feeding vampires in ''{{Twilight}}'' rip their victims to bloody shreds first.

* Mina Murray from ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' wears a red scarf to hide the scars from her attack by Dracula. Alan Moore [[OurVampiresAreDifferent decided that vampires would feed like vampire]] ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent bats]];'' i.e. grind the skin into hamburger with nasty serrated teeth, and lap up what comes out. So, Mina's scars are not the "pair of discreet puncture wounds" of legend, but massive and disfiguring. TheFilmOfTheBook goes with the traditional bite look, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the annoyance of many comic fans]].

* TheMovie version of ''[=~'Salem's Lot~=]'' had messy, unpleasant vampires.

** Thing is, the original book ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'' went with the traditional puncture wounds. Which AdaptationDecay do you prefer? Of course, we wish this was the single gripe there was about the film.

** When he did turn the reporter, he took his time and the death itself seemed very sensual. The interesting part was that the reporter had blond hair, dark skin, and blue eyes, similar to Integra Hellsing, his master;also, his eyes were on her the entire time. One may infer that it may have been an indirect way of saying "This could be you".

Humans who have encountered a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire may count themselves lucky, as the KissOfTheVampire is at worst, a tolerable experience, and at best, as good as or better than sex.

* TheDresdenFiles is all over the place on this one. The White Court doesn't leave any marks on their prey, but feed on the lifeforce of their prey by inducing a specific emotion. The Red Court use elaborate disguises to get close to their prey, then use their narcotic saliva to render the prey insensible while they go at it like vampire bats. The Black Court sucks in the conventional sense ({{Dracula}} was actually written as a guide to dealing with the Black Court), but resemble rotting corpses, so ''how'' they come by their prey is another question entirely. The Jade Court has been alluded to, but (as of Small Favor, the farthest this troper has yet gotten in the series) haven't appeared; the character that mentions them says they're from Asia but otherwise very secretive, and it's probably a safe bet that the Chinese "hopping ghost" is at least marginally related.

** The Kuei-jin or Cathayan, Asian vampires in ''KindredOfTheEast'', lack fangs in their default form, so they need to draw blood using a blade or some other artificial means. (This assumes they're not enlightened enough to subsist on a victim's breath or simply draw upon the ambient energy of the universe, but are sufficiently enlightened that they no longer need to consume the flesh of their prey.)

'''Dracula:''' ''Nah, see, that's a myth. Dracula scrape with his fangs and lick up the blood. Like this... ''[demonstrates]'' See, scrape and lick. Scrape and lick.''\\

* In the Dracula-display segment of ''Waxwork'', the vampires not only drink the fiancee's blood, they [[spoiler: butcher his leg ''while he's still alive'', then share the raw meat with his bride as "steak tartar"]].
* The female vampires in ''{{Count Yorga}}'' are like this biting their victims anywhere to drain their blood, leaving bite marks all over the body. Oddly though the title character, Yorga, when feeding on his female victims is nowhwere near as messy just leaving pinpricks on their necks.

*** If you count the anime, he did feed on a human once. [[spoiler:Integra told him to dispose of a reporter whop knew too much and this was his solution]]. Plus, keep in mind he's the one who turned Seras...

* In ''TheVampireDiaries'' a full set of tooth marks is left on the victim. There's no indication of fangs, and when people are bitten there's the occasional sound like flesh being ''chewed''. Though they can use their [[MindControl compulsion]] to make people ignore the pain, or at least forget about it afterwards.

* The segment "Midnight Mess" from the 1977 ''[[ECComics Vault of Horror]]'' movie adaptation. What sucks more than a vampire bite? Being hung by your ankles and having a ''beer tap'' jammed into your jugular!

* Alucard of ''{{Hellsing}}'' tends to not bother with subtlety [[strike:when feeding]] ever. Unless maybe it'll make the MindScrew ''even worse''. He's been told at before "It's not good to play with your food".

*** He can just flat out absorb blood that's anywhere nearby, if so inclined- [[spoiler: in the manga, he calls ''rivers'' of spilt blood to him through the streets of London, then a war zone]]. But feeding or no, he'll make a mess of you because it's ''fun''.

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'''Dracula:''' ''Nah, see, that's a myth. Dracula scrape with his fangs and lick up the blood. Like this... ''[demonstrates]'' See, scrape and lick. Scrape and lick.''
-->''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', "Fear and Loathing in Endsville"

* D&D vampires don't generally feed like this -- why let good blood spill all over? -- but ''Van Richten's Guide to Vampires'' briefly mentions how long a vampire can offset starvation by tearing up ''a fresh corpse'' to get at its blood. Just in case it overestimates the PCs' hardiness and scores a [[TotalPartyKill TPK]], leaving nobody who's still breathing left for dinner.

->'''[[TheGrimReaper Grim]]:''' ''...{{Dracula}}, hurry, I'm in terrible pain. You gotta suck out the poison!''\\

'''Dracula:''' ''Nah, see, that's a myth. Dracula scrape with his fangs and lick up the blood. Like this... ''[demonstrates]'' See, scrape and lick. Scrape and lick.''

Humans who have encountered a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire may count themselves lucky, as the KissOfTheVampire is at worst, a tolerable experience, and at best, as good as or better than sex.

The vampires who aren't quite so humane or human-friendly, though, don't much care for whether their prey enjoys it. They likely won't survive the experience to care, as these vampires don't bother with table manners, let alone leaving two dainty, easily covered puncture wounds. They go for the jugular, and if the rest of the neck goes with it, c'est la mort.

* Alucard of ''{{Hellsing}}'' tends to not bother with subtlety [[strike:when feeding]] ever. Unless maybe it'll make the MindScrew ''even worse''. He's been told at before "It's not good to play with your food".

** And in the first series, one feeds using his ''hair''. It comes across like the vines from ''TheRuins''.

* The first installment of the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}} vs Dracula'' series, ''Red Rain'' has Dracula and his minions slashing the throats of their victims with their fangs after they're done to cover up the supernatural element of their attack and disguise the killing as a standard murder. one wonders why they bothered, what with [[FridgeLogic Dracula flying around in his enormous, monstrous winged form in public.]]
** Then again, one of Batman's villains is Man-Bat, a giant bat.
*** Bat shaped shadow in the night sky? Unusual? This is ''Gotham'' we're talking about...
* Mina Murray from ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' wears a red scarf to hide the scars from her attack by Dracula. Alan Moore [[OurVampiresAreDifferent decided that vampires would feed like vampire]] ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent bats]];'' i.e. grind the skin into hamburger with nasty serrated teeth, and lap up what comes out. So, Mina's scars are not the "pair of discreet puncture wounds" of legend, but massive and disfiguring. TheFilmOfTheBook goes with the traditional bite look, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks to the annoyance of many comic fans]].
** Thing is, the original book ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'' went with the traditional puncture wounds. Which AdaptationDecay do you prefer? Of course, we wish this was the single gripe there was about the film.
* Vampires in ''{{Preacher}}'' rip out the side of their victim's neck. The perils of not having fangs...

* In ''[[ThirtyDaysOfNight 30 Days of Night]]'', the vampires are violent. And they don't even bother to wipe their mouths after feeding. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as their pillaging of the town was their equivalent of an all you can eat buffet. To be fair, the comic book has the vampires being similarly gory... but in private.
* The vampires in the ''{{Blade}}'' movies are all savage and vicious.
* ''FromDuskTillDawn'' is full of the vampires who bite hard and messy.

* ''IAmLegend'' has creatures purported to be violent and messy, but we never really get a good look at their feeding habits.
* John Carpenter's ''Vampires'' features vampires who don't suck blood so much as tear a hole in your carotid and lap at the fountain.

* In Brian Lumley's ''{{Necroscope}}'' series, the vampires are all savage and vicious, even to each other. More to the point, due to the fact that they can reshape their bodies, their feeding habits range from using oversized jaws to tear open human torsos, to forming tentacular siphons and draining their victims dry. And it gets worse when the vampire in question has the power of Necromancy...

** The bites may scar but the bite itself is euphoric due to highly addictive vampire venom that causes pleasure center reaction, so the victim craves being bitten again, even months after the bite. Worse, other vampires can re-trigger the bite scar. See KissOfTheVampire.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has this, sort of. In order to feed, the vampire only needs to make you bleed to feed, so it's not as messy as most examples, however they don't leave the two neat puncture wounds common to KissOfTheVampire. They leave behind an oval scar, as they bite with all their teeth. Note that this is all that ''have'' to do to feed. Most vampires are sadistic bastards and do much worse. Offscreen, but still.

* In ''TheVampireDiaries'' a full set of tooth marks is left on the victim. There's no indication of fangs, and when people are bitten there's the occasional sound like flesh being ''chewed''. Though they can use their [[MindControl compulsion]] to make people ignore the pain, or at least forget about it afterwards.
* In a DoingInTheWizard variant, the villain of an early ''CSI'' episode was a porphyriac convinced she needed to consume human hemoglobin to suppress her illness. Being fangless, she trained her guard dog to maul her intended prey, then removed their livers and spleens (rich in blood) and left each body looking like an animal-attack victim.

* ''{{Gantz}}'' has this trope in spades, to the point where we see a metal tub being filled with blood after a vampire cut a few womens' heads off. They don't care how they get the blood - they just want it.

*** Their spiritual descendents in ''VampireTheRequiem'' are the Noctuku, a Nosferatu bloodline that has the irrestistable urge to devour the flesh of their prey. Of course, they can't ''digest'' it, which makes their dinners rather... unpleasant. For bonus points, they actually revel in this, and prefer hunting other vampires to anything else.

*** And the Norvegi bloodline, whose inherited flaw is that they lack fangs. That means that they have to use something sharp, and it hurts precisely as much as some bastard slitting your wrist with a knife then latching onto it and trying to suck your blood out does. Which is to say, a lot. On the other hand, their special power, [[BodyHorror Bloodworking]], does mean that they can turn their hands into organic bone-knives which drain your blood when you're stabbed. Still hurts like hell, though.

** The Kuei-jin or Cathayan, Asian vampires in ''KindredOfTheEast'', lack fangs in their default form, so they need to draw blood using a blade or some other artificial means. (This assumes they're not enlightened enough to subsist on a victim's breath or simply draw upon the ambient energy of the universe, but are sufficiently enlightened that they no longer need to consume the flesh of their prey.)
* The ''Monster Manuscript'' was a booklet giving D&D stats and painting instructions from some Grenadier miniatures from the early '80s. One of the listed monsters is a "velanmorg", an elven vampire that messily plays out this trope, ripping victims' throats out and greedily guzzling the fountaining blood. Their claws hold the struggling prey securely as it bleeds out.

* D&D vampires don't generally feed like this -- why let good blood spill all over? -- but ''Van Richten's Guide to Vampires'' briefly mentions how long a vampire can offset starvation by tearing up ''a fresh corpse'' to get at its blood. Just in case it overestimates the PCs' hardiness and scores a [[TotalPartyKill TPK]], leaving nobody who's still breathing left for dinner.
* Vampires in the ''{{GURPS}}: Black Ops'' setting are fairly simple. In daytime, they sleep. At night, they hunt until they find a normal human, then tear it in half to eat the internal organs and slurp up the blood. Then they start hunting again, until sunrise. Then they sleep.

* In the movie ''Innocent Blood'', the vampire rips the victim's throat out like an animal, which is kind of a subversion because otherwise she's a cute, sexy FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.

* While most of the vampire attacks in ''The Fearless Vampire Killers'' are on the jugular, at a certain point a man is brought in with vampire bites ''all over his body'', and hardly any blood left.