History Main / VampiresOwnNightclubs

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': The "king of the Manhattan vampires", Simon the Devious, runs a nightclub.

* Like all the other vampire tropes, ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' parodies and deconstructs this. There is a vampire-owned nightclub that the main cast frequents, but it's not very good and never attracts a crowd. Because the vampires are unable to get into a real nightclub without an explicit ivitation from the staff, they have no idea what they're actually like.

* Occurs in the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxBeyondTimeAndSpace'' episode "Night of the Raving Dead".

See also VampireDance and VampiresAreRich.

* The ones in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' (1996) are also operating a (bordertown, off-highway) stripclub.

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** The supplement book "The Succubus Club", a vampire night club in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.

Naturally, when you ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent usually]]) can't go out during the day, subsist on the blood of humans, can't enter someone's home without an invitation, and are part of a mythological race that is commonly associated with [[VampiresAreSexGods sex]] and a [[LesbianVampire lack of inhibitions]], such a business venture makes sense. You can operate during the night without anyone batting an eye, you can get your prey to come to you, and hey, everyone wants to have a little fun now and again even if they're dead, right?

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has four of them: "Asylum", owned by Therese and Jeanette Voerman, "Asp Hole", owned by Ash, "Vesuvius", (a strip club) owned by Velvet Velour, and "Confession", which can be co-owned by the PlayerCharacter.

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* Catering to those who live the "vampire lifestyle" that originated from the Gothic subculture, [[http://www.vampirewebsite.net/vampirebarsclubs.html this website]] features a directory of vampire-friendly bars and nightclubs in cities.

** The episode [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish "The Wish"]] had the Bronze turned into one of these. Normally, the Bronze is a music venue, and apparently family-friendly enough to allow teenagers in without any questions, but in the AlternateUniverse that Cordelia [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wished herself into]], the Master, having taken over Sunnydale, uses the place as his base of operations. Humans are kept in cages and tied up on the pool tables, where they are fed on by the vampires partying around them.

* Averted in the ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]]'', which features [[BarFullOfAliens demon bars]] instead, oft portrayed as a BadGuyBar except for [[Series/{{Angel}} Lorne's place]] "Caritas". Some of these serve as places where [[KissOfTheVampire humans can go to be fed on by vampires]], but they're portrayed more as [[FantasticDrug junkie dives]] than glamorous nightclubs.

* Deconstructed in ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Rhesus Chart]]''. Vampires are essentially {{serial killer}}s, so need to pick victims that no one will miss. That means the elderly or homeless runaways, not pretty young things who can afford to go to nightclubs.

* Like all the other vampire tropes, ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' parodies and deconstructs this. There is a vampire-owned nightclub that the main cast frequents, but it's not very good and never attracts a crowd. Because the vampires were all BornInTheWrongCentury and are unable to make themselves look socially acceptable due to lacking a reflection, they can't actually get into a real nightclub and have no idea what they're actually like.

* The ones in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' (1996) went even farther downmarket, operating a bordertown off-highway whorehouse.

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* ''The Blue Blood'' in ShadowchasersBackwater is run by Fayte Nyte, although it's no secret to Backwater residents that she is a vampire. Aside from its obvious abundance of Shadowkind clientele and employees, it seems an average nightclub for the most part. (It is known to have some ''very'' expensive cocktails available; one mentioned is ''Falkmoon'' a potent vintage that was invented by vampires that requires centuries of aging. A small glass sells for nearly $500.)

* ''Film/{{Vamp}}'' (1986) had a vampire-owned ''bar''.
** More like a strip club. The ones in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' (1996) went even farther downmarket, operating a bordertown off-highway whorehouse.
* "Common" in ''Film/{{Blade}}''
* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' - Vampires and werewolves work in a nightclub owned by their French boss.

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* Victor Temple of ''WebVideo/LAByNight'' owns a nightclub called Club Maharaja.