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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can only drink human blood (eating or drinking anything else makes them violently ill) and must feed every five or so days, or they enter a frenzied state and attack any humans they come across. They have enhanced speed, strength and agility, obviously show up on camera (given the film’s [[FoundFootage genre]]), sunlight burns them, staking them through the heart [[spoiler: has next to no effect on them]], they can survive and [[HealingFactor recover from serious wounds]] (including a shotgun blast to the head) and [[spoiler: there is no cure for the condition]]. Apparently, being bitten/scratched by a vampire and surviving (even if you’re clinging to life by a thread) is enough to turn you into one; it also cures terminal diseases.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can only drink human blood (eating or drinking anything else makes them violently ill) and must feed every five or so days, or they enter a frenzied state and attack any humans they come across. They have enhanced speed, strength and agility, obviously show up on camera (given the film’s [[FoundFootage genre]]), sunlight and retain their reflection. Sunlight burns them, staking them through the heart [[spoiler: has next to no effect on them]], they can survive and [[HealingFactor recover from serious wounds]] (including a shotgun blast to the head) head), and [[spoiler: there is no cure for the condition]]. Apparently, being bitten/scratched by a vampire and surviving (even if you’re clinging to life by a thread) is enough to turn you into one; it also cures terminal diseases.



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Derek goes on a rather gruesome one against [[spoiler: the French SWAT team]] after they shoot him 'dead'.
* SadClown: Derek is suffering from a terminal illness, Clif is nervous going overseas and worried that he might very well end up watching his best friend die, and both spend a great deal of time clowning around to brighten the mood. This tendency continues when Derek is transformed into a vampire, for even between scenes of vomiting blood, skin sizzling in the sun and unspeakable HorrorHunger, the two are in the habit of cracking jokes and laughing over the new powers. Derek in particular develops a rather dry sense of humor that somehow holds up even when he's been burned to a crisp and left on the run from the police. [[spoiler: Tragically subverted by the end; Derek's been so broken by his experiences that he's lost all trace of humor and levity in his final address to his family, while Clif has been reduced to a feral vampire who can't even speak, much less laugh.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Derek massacres most of the French SWAT team, the last remaining officer decides to flee. Derek kills him too.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Derek goes on a rather gruesome one against [[spoiler: the French SWAT GIGN team]] after they shoot him 'dead'.
* SadClown: Derek is suffering from a terminal illness, illness; Clif is nervous about going overseas and worried that he might very well end up watching his best friend die, and both spend a great deal of time clowning around to brighten the mood. This tendency continues when Derek is transformed into a vampire, for even between scenes of vomiting blood, skin sizzling in the sun and unspeakable HorrorHunger, the two are in the habit of cracking jokes and laughing over the new powers. Derek in particular develops a rather dry sense of humor that somehow holds up even when he's been burned to a crisp and left on the run from the police. [[spoiler: Tragically subverted by the end; Derek's been so broken by his experiences that he's lost all trace of humor and levity in his final address to his family, while Clif has been reduced to a feral vampire who can't even speak, much less laugh.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Derek massacres most of the French SWAT GIGN team, the last remaining officer decides to flee. Derek kills him too.

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