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* DaywalkingVampire: Sunlight does not affect Miriam or John.

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* DaywalkingVampire: Sunlight does not affect Miriam or John.John at all.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: As we're not privy to her internal monologue, Miriam's grooming of Alice is much less overt. The implication that Miriam [[QuestionableConsent restricts her would-be paramours' ability to resist the requisite seduction]] is also not evident; in fact, the script's call for a drugging was rewritten into a consensual sex scene after Creator/SusanSarandon rejected the notion that ''[[EvenTheGirlsWantHer anyone]]'' would need to be drugged into bed with Creator/CatherineDeneuve.
** On the topic of Alice, [[spoiler:the John of the book commits her murder as much to spite his maker as to satiate his hunger. The former is much less apparent in the film.]]
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* AgeWithoutYouth: Miriam's companions each suffer this fate after about 300 years or so of age ''with'' youth.

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* AgeWithoutYouth: Miriam's companions each suffer this fate after about 300 years or so of age ''with'' youth.youth, after which they begin to rapidly wither.

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* KickTheDog: John and Miriam are friends with a precocious teenaged female violinist named Alice, with whom they play classical music (and who Miriam is secretly grooming to be her next lover). And then John kills her to drain her blood.
** It could be he's doing it as a first revenge against Miriam and being a CrazyJealousGuy, or that it's actually a case of CruelMercy - better for her to die now than to become what he's going to become.

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* KickTheDog: John and Miriam are friends with a precocious teenaged female violinist named Alice, with whom they play classical music (and who Miriam is secretly grooming to be her next lover). And then John kills her to drain her blood.
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blood. It could be he's doing it as a first revenge against Miriam and being a CrazyJealousGuy, or that it's actually a case of CruelMercy - better for her to die now than to become what he's going to become.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: To the point that neither novel or film uses the V-word ''at all''. For starters, they have no fangs -- Miriam has Egyptian origins and prefers a more [[IncrediblyLamePun cutting approach]] featuring blades concealed in ankh-shaped pendants. She can display great strength, but has no traditional weaknesses. She and her current companion must feed once a week, a process that requires one murder victim apiece. Finally, a proper amount of deep sleep is needed each day to maintain youthfulness and strength; the first sign a companion is about to decay is chronic insomnia.
* RapidAging: When a companion's decay sets in, it wastes no time.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: To the point that neither novel or film uses the V-word ''at all''. For starters, they have no fangs -- Miriam has Egyptian origins and prefers a more [[IncrediblyLamePun cutting approach]] featuring blades concealed in ankh-shaped pendants. She can display great strength, but has no traditional weaknesses.weaknesses, able to move around in daytime with no issue whatsoever. She and her current companion must feed once a week, a process that requires one murder victim apiece. Finally, a proper amount of deep sleep is needed each day to maintain youthfulness and strength; the first sign a companion is about to decay is chronic insomnia.
insomnia. And while they are immortal, they do not have eternal ''youth'' except for Miriam and rapidly decay after a few centuries.
* RapidAging: When a companion's decay sets in, it wastes no time.time, turning John from a normal, handsome man into a frail old man almost instantly.
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** [[spoiler: Miriam is strongly implied to be condemned to the same fate at the end of the movie when we're shown a coffin, presumably somewhere in the bowels of Sarah's apartment in Rome, and we hear Miriam's voice calling out for Sarah.]]

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** [[spoiler: Miriam is strongly implied to be condemned to the same fate at the end of the movie when we're shown a coffin, presumably somewhere in the bowels of Sarah's apartment in Rome, London, and we hear Miriam's voice calling out for Sarah.]]



* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:On the one hand, John and the other lovers take revenge on Miriam and are able to perish while she experiences their AndIMustScream fate for herself. On the other, rather than dying, the turned Sarah moves to Paris (taking the imprisoned Miriam along) to start anew with lovers of her own. The novel's ending, in which the revenge fails, Sarah dies, and Miriam starts over is no picnic either.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:On the one hand, John and the other lovers take revenge on Miriam and are able to perish while she experiences their AndIMustScream fate for herself. On the other, rather than dying, the turned Sarah moves to Paris London (taking the imprisoned Miriam along) to start anew with lovers of her own. The novel's ending, in which the revenge fails, Sarah dies, and Miriam starts over is no picnic either.]]
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** Also the club itself. It's The Batcave, which was ''the'' London goth club during the late 70s and early 80s.
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** It could be he's doing it as a first revenge against Miriam and being a CrazyJealousGuy, or that it's actually a case of CruelMercy - better for her to die now than to become what he's going to become.

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* BigBad: Miriam Blaylock, a narcissistic vampire seeking a new lover.



* DepravedBisexual: Miriam.

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* DepravedBisexual: Miriam.Miriam Blaylock, a vampire who seduces both men and women into being her bloodsucking lovers until they age too much to function.



* DownerEnding: On the one hand, John and the other lovers take revenge on Miriam and are able to perish while she experiences their AndIMustScream fate for herself. On the other, rather than dying, the turned Sarah moves to Paris (taking the imprisoned Miriam along) to start anew with lovers of her own. The novel's ending, in which the revenge fails, Sarah dies, and Miriam starts over is no picnic either.

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* DownerEnding: On [[spoiler:On the one hand, John and the other lovers take revenge on Miriam and are able to perish while she experiences their AndIMustScream fate for herself. On the other, rather than dying, the turned Sarah moves to Paris (taking the imprisoned Miriam along) to start anew with lovers of her own. The novel's ending, in which the revenge fails, Sarah dies, and Miriam starts over is no picnic either.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Averted by Sarah's test subjects.
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* EternalLove: Miriam's sales pitch. Unfortunately, her paramours are damned to rot and decay after a few centuries, at which point she will retire them to the attic and begin courting a new companion.
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* BodyHorror: John starts losing his immortal youth and ages rapidly. Miriam has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them extremely old and doomed to live as withered ancients forever. And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.

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* BodyHorror: John starts losing his immortal youth and ages rapidly. Miriam has a dozen former vampire lovers tucked away in coffins in one room of her apartment, all of them extremely old and doomed to live as withered ancients forever. And a flashback suggests at least one of them has been that way since ''ancient Egypt.'' Gulp.''

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* AssholeVictim: John doesn't deserve what he gets, but he isnt exactly the nicest guy, what with being a murderous vampire and all.

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* AssholeVictim: John doesn't deserve what he gets, but he isnt isn't exactly the nicest guy, what with being a murderous vampire and all.all.
* BatDeduction: Sarah's human lover Tom is able to guess that Sarah slept with Miriam and now something is wrong with her because Sarah spent three hours with Miriam and then orders a steak, rare, and doesn't eat it.
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** [[spoiler: Miriam is strongly implied to be condemned to the same fate at the end of the movie when we're shown a coffin, presumably somewhere in the bowels of Sarah's apartment in Rome, and we hear Miriam's voice calling out for Sarah.]]
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* KillTheCutie: See above. Poor little Alice deserved far better.
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* TheCameo: The opening sequence in the club is set to [[Music/Bauhaus Bauhaus's]] "Bela Lugosi's Dead", and frontman Peter Murphy is prominently featured in the scene performing said song.

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* TheCameo: The opening sequence in the club is set to [[Music/Bauhaus [[Music/{{Bauhaus}} Bauhaus's]] "Bela Lugosi's Dead", and the band's frontman Peter Murphy is prominently featured in the scene performing said song.
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* TheCameo: The opening sequence in the club is set to [[Music/Bauhaus Bauhaus's]] "Bela Lugosi's Dead", and frontman Peter Murphy is prominently featured in the scene performing said song.
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* CastingGag: Dr Sarah Roberts and her paramour, Tom Haver, are played by Creator/SusanSarandon and Cliff De Young. Sarandon played Janet in ''Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow'', and De Young played Brad in ''Film/ShockTreatment''. Some couples can only be disrupted by astonishingly charismatic bisexuals.

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* CastingGag: Dr Sarah Roberts and her paramour, Tom Haver, are played by Creator/SusanSarandon and Cliff De Young. Sarandon played Janet in ''Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow'', ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', and De Young played Brad in ''Film/ShockTreatment''. Some couples can only be disrupted by astonishingly charismatic bisexuals.



* UnbuiltTrope: As one of the earliest 'angsty vampire' stories, predating ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' by nearly ten years, it's surprising that despite being {{Jerkass Woobie}}s the vampires are still shown as evil and are ultimately punished in the story. Bloodlust is used as an analogue for addiction rather than sexual lust.

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* UnbuiltTrope: As one of the earliest 'angsty vampire' stories, predating ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' by nearly ten years, it's surprising that despite being {{Jerkass Woobie}}s Jerkass Woobies the vampires are still shown as evil and are ultimately punished in the story. Bloodlust is used as an analogue for addiction rather than sexual lust.
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* KickTheDog: John and Miriam are friends with a precocious teenaged female violinist named Alice, with whom they play classical music. And then John kills her to drain her blood.

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* KickTheDog: John and Miriam are friends with a precocious teenaged female violinist named Alice, with whom they play classical music.music (and who Miriam is secretly grooming to be her next lover). And then John kills her to drain her blood.

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