History JustForFun / AnneFrankVampire

* SuppressedMammaries: Abi Hempel bound her breasts to more convincingly play an innocent pubescent girl. Hilariously subverted in Anne's "cool vampire" daydream sequence, where her breasts are unsuppressed and [[AbsoluteCleavage shown off]] in a barely-zipped-up SpyCatsuit.

* IHaveTheHighGround: The Watcher's introductory shot, of him climbing the spire of the Oude Kerk in animalistic bat-like style.

''Anne Frank: Vampire'' is a "Jewsploitation" action-horror film that caused an almighty backlash when it was released in 2015, to the point of the scriptwriter, Daniel Cane, being '''assassinated''', either by Jewish people who objected to the portrayal of literal "bloodsucking Jews", or neo-Nazis who objected to said vampires being creepy-cool heroes who save most of the residents of the Annex and bloodily slaughter the entire leadership of the Third Reich occupation of the Netherlands. Despite this, or maybe because of it, it made a huge amount of money in cinemas and on home video.

* OffendingTheCreatorsOwn: To the point of Kane being murdered in real life, if you believe that it was done by infuriated Jewish people rather than infuriated neo-Nazis. Despite the director, writer, and actors in major Jewish roles all being Jewish, some Jewish people and organisations were absolutely outraged by the film, although many Jewish people loved it.

It’s 1942 in Amsterdam, and [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl Anne Frank]] has a lot of questions in her life. Can she tolerate being cooped up with several other people in a few small rooms? Are they all going to survive until the Nazis are kicked out of the Netherlands (if ever)? And who is the creepy old man who has just moved into the attic, and why does everyone else seem to think they’ve known him for years, when Anne’s never seen him before in her life?

''Anne Frank: Vampire'' is a “Jewsploitation” action-horror film that caused an almighty row when it was released in 2015, to the point of the scriptwriter, Daniel Cane, being '''assassinated''', either by Jewish people who objected to the portrayal of literal “bloodsucking Jews”, or neo-Nazis who objected to said vampires being creepy-cool heroes who save most of the inmates of the attic and bloodily slaughter the entire leadership of the Third Reich occupation of the Netherlands. Despite this, or maybe because of it, it made a huge amount of money in cinemas and on home video.

For more information on the real-world shenanigans surrounding the film, see Creator/ChinaMieville’s “The Junket”. Compare ''JustForFun/DisneysAnneFrank'', an 1989 film in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon also telling a fictionalized, supernatural version of Anne Frank's story.

!!''Anne Frank: Vampire'' provides examples of the following:

* BackstoryInvader: The Watcher uses vampiric mind-control to make the other people in the attic think he’s an old friend of theirs with only Anne being immune.

* BondOneLiner: Anne makes an incredibly tasteless one after killing a particularly youthful and boyish-looking SS member, which alludes to the Blood Libel. One rumour has it that it was this line in particular that Cane's real-life murderers were so pissed-off about.
* TheCastShowOff: Originally Anne was intended to be a generic "hot goth action girl" type of vampire, until Abi Hempel's audition, when she showed off her contortionist and gymnastic skills, and how creepily she could use them. This led to the much scarier J-Horror-influenced depiction of her in the film.
* DeathByAdaptation: All of the named Nazis (except Fritz Schmidt) die a lot earlier than they did in real life. Also, “Henk van Santen”, who in the film is killed when the Watcher blows up the warehouse (although he was probably already dying after Silberbauer shot him as soon as the raid started to seriously go south), when the real Jan Gies lived to a ripe old age.

** Abi Hempel actually did spend quite a lot of time lurking underwater with a scuba tank during the canal scenes - contrary to some rumours, she's said that she was fully onboard with the idea and enjoyed herself.

* TheFogOfAges: According to the Watcher, he can't remember anything about his human life in the Middle Ages, not even his original name.

* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Averted. The Watcher only starts feeling any genuine liking for the people in the attic shortly before his death, and Anne is a bloodthirsty monster who is only "good" because she has lots of {{Asshole Victim}}s to feed on.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Surprisingly enough, the film has an enthusiastic fanbase in the Netherlands, probably due to the heroic depiction of Jewish and Gentile resistants and its surprisingly accurate depiction of the geography and culture of Amsterdam.

* IHaveNoSon: Otto is viscerally horrified by vampire Anne and sees her as a monster in place of his daughter. She, disgusted by her own urges, entirely agrees. They have a final moment of closeness when he recites the Kaddish for her, which is then horribly disrupted when he hugs her and she for a split second uncontrollably moves to bite him.

* LimaSyndrome: The Watcher initially sees the people in the attic as simply protection and an emergency food supply, but comes to genuinely care about them.

* MoralityChain: Subverted. Peter seriously intends to be this to Anne after she becomes a vampire, giving her hope, but on actually witnessing the [[VampireBitesSuck horrific violence]] that she’s capable of he runs away in terror and is never seen again (although we are told that he went back underground and survived).
* MoralityKitchenSink: The Nazis are all unspeakable bastards with not one redeeming feature between them. The Dutch resistants and the living Jews, albeit flawed, are all basically good people. Anne is a ReluctantPsycho who barely manages to restrict her predation to Nazis, several times only just restraining herself from killing at random when hungry, [[spoiler:and kills herself when she runs out of legitimate targets]]. The Watcher is a vampire who’s been casually killing people for centuries, but finds the company of the other people in the annex reawakening his capacity for human connections and altruism.

** Anne leaving Rauter's corpse with the teat of a sow stuffed into its mouth is a dark joke on a genuine, now almost forgotten, central European anti-Semitic trope.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Everybody in the attic except for Anne and Henk, who die, and Otto, who also survived in real life.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Anne after her vampirisation, especially after she starts living in the canals.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Anne realises that not having to breathe means that, if you unlive in a city full of filthy canals, you have a very easy and practical way of hiding from the sunlight and moving around without being noticed.

* TakeThat: A quiet take that to the underlying anti-Semitic subtexts of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', which are often minimised by fans.

** Also symbolised in the way that Anne never drops her GameFace after Peter runs away from her, until she disguises herself as a BDM girl to [[spoiler:kill Seyss-Inquart while also [[DyingAsYourself destroying herself]]]].

* VampiresAreSexGods: Averted. The Watcher is an emaciated man who truly looks 800 years old, and Anne after vampirisation is a terrifying demonic entity with an Orlokian GameFace and a habit of moving in ways that humans '''really shouldn't'''.

''Anne Frank: Vampire'' is a “Jewsploitation” action-horror film that caused an almighty row when it was released in 2015, to the point of the scriptwriter, Daniel Cane, being '''assassinated''', either by Jewish people who objected to the portrayal of literal “bloodsucking Jews”, or neo-Nazis who objected to said vampires being CreepyCool heroes who save most of the inmates of the attic and bloodily slaughter the entire leadership of the Third Reich occupation of the Netherlands. Nevertheless, or maybe because of it, it has made a huge amount of money in the cinemas and on home video release.

!!’’Anne Frank: Vampire’’ provides examples of the following tropes:

* BondOneLiner: Anne makes an incredibly tasteless one after killing a particularly youthful and boyish-looking SS member, which alludes to the Blood Libel. One rumour has it that it was this line in particular that Cane's real-life murderers were so pissed off about.
* TheCastShowOff: Originally Anne was intended to be a generic "hot goth action girl" type of vampire, until Abi Hempel's audition, when she showed off her contortionist and gymnastic skills, and how creepily she could use them. This led to the much scarier J-Horror influenced depiction of her in the film.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Abi Hempel actually did spend quite a lot of time lurking underwater with a scuba tank during the canal scenes -- contrary to some rumours she's said that she was fully onboard with the idea and enjoyed herself. Also Daniel Bruehl in Silberbauer's death scene -- while he knew Anne was going to jump out of the canal and drag him in, it was the first time he'd seen the full make-up and his [[GirlyScream reaction]] is not acting.

* FollowTheLeader: WordOfGod confirms that it was conceived as a Jewish equivalent of ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', in terms of ultraviolent and consciously tasteless rewriting of history to show the oppressed striking back.
* FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire: Averted. The Watcher only starts feeling any genuine liking for the people in the attic shortly before his death, and Anne is a bloodthirsty monster who is only "good" because she has lots of Asshole Victims to feed on.

* MoralityKitchenSink: The Nazis are all unspeakable bastards with not one redeeming feature between them. The Dutch resistants and the living Jews, albeit flawed, are all basically good people. Anne is a ReluctantPsycho who barely manages to restrict her predation to Nazis, several times only just restrains herself from killing at random when hungry, [[spoiler:and kills herself when she runs out of legitimate targets]]. The Watcher is a vampire who’s been casually killing people for centuries, but finds the company of the other people in the annex reawakening his capacity for human connections and altruism.

** The idea of a vampiric GameFace which gradually becomes permanent is clearly taken from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Angel's immediate post-soul-loss scene in ''Buffy'' is also directly parodied when a recently vampirised Anne kills a cigarette-smoking man with a Nazi armband, and promptly goes into a coughing fit as a non-smoker inhaling the contents of his throat. And an ancient vampire being called "the Watcher" has to be some kind of joke about ''Buffy''.

* VampireBitesSuck: All the feeding scenes are utterly animalistic and horrific. Even though the Watcher intends to turn rather than kill Anne, and she is happy for him to do so, he still can't completely control his bloodlust and absolutely mauls her throat.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Averted. The Watcher is an emaciated man who truly looks eight hundred years old, and Anne after vampirisation is a terrifying demonic entity with an Orlokian GameFace and a habit of moving in ways that humans '''really shouldn't'''.

''Anne Frank: Vampire'' is a “Jewsploitation” action-horror film that caused an almighty row when it was released in 2015, to the point of the scriptwriter, Daniel Cane, being '''assassinated''', either by Jewish people who objected to the portrayal of literal “bloodsucking Jews”, or neo-Nazis who objected to said vampires being creepily cool heroes who save most of the inmates of the attic and bloodily slaughter the entire leadership of the Third Reich occupation of the Netherlands. Nevertheless, or maybe because of it, it has made a huge amount of money in the cinemas and on home video release.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Lampshaded in-universe example: the Watcher uses vampiric mind-control to make the other people in the attic think he’s an old friend of theirs with only Anne being immune.

''Anne Frank: Vampire'' is a “Jewsploitation” action-horror film that caused an almighty row when it was released in 2015, to the point of the scriptwriter, Daniel Cane, being '''assassinated''', either by Jewish people who objected to the portrayal of literal “bloodsucking Jews”, or neo-Nazis who objected to said vampires [[spoiler:being creepily cool heroes who save most of the inmates of the attic and bloodily slaughter the entire leadership of the Third Reich occupation of the Netherlands]]. Nevertheless, or maybe because of it, it has made a huge amount of money in the cinemas and on home video release.

* SpiritualAntithesis: Not just in tone but in plot to ''JustForFun/DisneysAnneFrank'', in which Anne is an ordinary human with IncorruptiblePurePureness while the Nazis are actually tools of a supernatural EldritchAbomination.

* DawsonCasting: Twenty-year-old Abi Hempel plays fourteen to fifteen-year-old Anne Frank.

For more information on the real-world shenanigans surrounding the film, see Creator/ChinaMieville’s “The Junket”. Compare ''JustForFun/DisneysAnneFrank'', an 1989 film in the DisneyAnimatedCanon also telling a fictionalized, supernatural version of Anne Frank's story.

For more information on the real-world shenanigans surrounding the film, see Creator/ChinaMieville’s “The Junket”.