History Main / VampireDance

-->'''[=LaCroix=]''' It's time to peel away the layers and reveal our inner selves. Yes, it's Amateur Night at the Raven, and tonight our amateurs will reveal their inner selves by GETTING NAKED!

* In the 1990s mini-series reboot of "The Little Vampire", Rudiger again sneaks Anton into a Vampire Festival disguised as a vampire, but they get a shock when Anton's unsuspecting parents come to the party dressed as vampires, thinking it is just a costume party. The rest of the evening is spent with Rudiger and Anton trying to prevent the other vampires from catching on that Anton and his parents are human, and Anton's parents from catching on that the other guests aren't people dressed as vampires, but the REAL THING!

* Hammer Horror The Kiss of the vampire has the vampire ball... and hero and heroine as the unsuspecting guests.

* ''VanHelsing'' features a fancy dress party. The dance hall is lined with mirrors, making it obvious to the female lead that she's basically the only one there with a pulse.
* ''OnceBitten'' features a dance off between the hero's girlfriend and the vampire. Winner gets the hero.
* In ''FrightNight'', vampire Jerry Dandridge manages to hypnotize and make off with Amy Peterson while dancing with her at a nightclub, despite her being able to see that Dandridge has no reflection.
* ''LoveAtFirstBite'' has Count Dracula meeting his would-be bride at a disco.
* ''{{Blade}}'' opens with the vampires holding a rave in a meat-packing plant, complete with blood spraying from the fire sprinklers and victims lured in (presumably to be fed on).
* ''DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'' has a really funny dance sequence with a tango, a waltz, a ceiling length mirror, the works! Of course, the dance was set up by the vampire hunters as a way to reveal Dracula's true nature.

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Sometimes PlayedForLaughs. Most of the time, though, it's ParanoiaFuel. A SubTrope of TheDeadCanDance.

Sometimes PlayedForLaughs. Most of the time, though, its ParanoiaFuel. A SubTrope of TheDeadCanDance.

* In ''FrightNight'', vampire Jerry Dandridge manages to hypnotize and make off with Amy Peterson while dancing with her at a nightclub, despite her being able to see (or rather not see) that Dandridge has no reflection.

** The town's obsession with theme events also leads to a lot of dances, and at least a couple vampires generally attend. It's a rare Mystic Falls event that ends without a body count.

* While Music/{{Voltaire}}'s original 'Vampire Club' (as reference in the quote above) was more about LARPers, the 'Literature/{{Twilight}} Edition' played this trope straight...or would have, if the werewolves hadn't crashed the party.

* ''TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'' has a mission where Detective Marcus must enter a "vampyre" Club, complete with smoke machine and fetish attire. Granted you barely get to see any dancing and they are not "real vampires" (goths, and wannabes mostly) but it looks like something out of the first Blade movie. Once Marcus upsets the girl he's there to resque, the ringleader of the club promises to show Marcus "How Vampyrer fight!"

** ''TheSims 3'' also introduced vampires in the ''Late Night'' expansion pack.

* TrueCrimeNewYorkCity has a mission where Detective Marcus must enter a "vampyre" Club, complete with smoke machine and fetish attire. granted you barely get to see any dancing and they are not "real vampires" (goths, and wannabes mostly) but it looks like something out of the first Blade movie. Once Marcus upsets the girl he's there to resque, the ringleader of the club promis to show Marcus "How Vampyrer fight!"

* Jack Fleming of ''TheVampireFiles'' doesn't dance, but he owns a dance club. His girlfriend Bobbi is a professional singer who dances in many of her acts, so will presumably become an example if and when she's turned.

* One of the first serious examples of the trope on film was 1983's ''The Hunger''. The opening sequence is set at a rock club where the vampire couple Miriam and John Blaylock, disguised as merely chic clubgoers, observe the revelers on the dance floor and pick out a young couple from amongst them. They proceed to take them to a similarly stylish house to move in for the kill...and since [[Main/OurVampiresAreDifferent these vampires are different]] ''and'' [[Main/VampiresAreSexGods sexy]], the victims have no clue of their true natures until it's far too late. (As these vampires must feed weekly, it's implied that this sequence of events is routine for them.)

* Roman Polanski's ''TheFearlessVampireKillers'' used the dance floor mirror gag.

* ''In BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the vampires often hunted at the Bronze, despite the fact that they knew the Slayer liked to hang out at that night club.
** [[AngelTheSeries Angel]], however, cannot dance. At least, you do not want to watch.

* One is featured in ''Game/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice: Night Of The Raving Dead'', though there's only one vampire there.

Not to be confused with BallroomBlitz, which is when a dance or other formal event erupts in violence and, yes, bloodshed. Also not to be confused with the band of the same name.

* Inverted in the British series ''{{Series/Ultraviolet}}''. The protagonist nearly shoots his UnrequitedLoveInterest in a nightclub because he's convinced she's been turned into a vampire. It's only when she flees down a mirrored corridor that he realises he's made a mistake.

* ''ForeverKnight''. The Raven is a gothic nightclub run by Janette and [=LaCroix=]. It has coffins in the basement.

** The town's obsession with theme events also leads to a lot of dances, generally attended by three or four vampires.

* TrueCrime New York City has a mission where Detective Marcus must enter a "vampyre" Club, complete with smoke machine and fetish attire. granted you barely get to see any dancing and they are not "real vampires" (goths, and wannabes mostly) but it looks like something out of the first Blade movie. Once Marcus upsets the girl he's there to resque, the ringleader of the club promis to show Marcus "How Vampyrer fight!"

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True Crime New York City has a mission where Detective Marcus must enter a "vampyre" Club, complete with smoke machine and fetish attire. granted you barely get to see any dancing and they are not "real vampires" (goths, and wannabes mostly) but it looks like something out of the first Blade movie. Once Marcus upsets the girl he's there to resque, the ringleader of the club promis to show Marcus "How Vampyrer fight!"

** Then there is Club Zero.