YMMV / What We Do in the Shadows

• Alternative Character Interpretation: While the child vampires could be targeting pedophiles out of simple convenience, some people wonder if they were turned into vampires by a pedophile and are on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. This particular interpretation also applies to a group of similar characters in the sequel TV show.
• Awesome Music: The film's opening title music, "You're Dead" by Norma Tanega, introduced the 1966 song to a whole new audience.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Everybody just really loves Stu despite how little dialogue he has.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Vladislav attacked men, women, and children alike in his past.
  • Deacon was a Nazi at one point, helping Hitler amass his own vampire army during WWII. Word of God claims that they only kept it in the movie because they needed the movie to be feature length and it was the only thing that would work.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The movie is basically the best translation of your average Vampire: The Masquerade (and even moreso, its successor Vampire: The Requiem) session ever put to film, down to the general silliness and the various vampire archetypes (each with its own distinct characteristics) "working", for lack of a better term, together. Petyr even looks like a Nosferatu, though in his case it's due to his immense age rather than a clan curse.

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