Trivia / What We Do in the Shadows

• Actor-Shared Background: Stu Rutherford is an actual IT guy in real life, just like his character.
  Jemaine Clement: When we wrote the script and made him a big part of it, we let him think he was going to be our IT guy, and told him he'd just be in a little bit. Every day he'd go, ‘So when do I help with the computers?'; and we'd say, ‘Oh, just put that costume on first.' Because we almost keep him silent, I think, the whole time he thinks he's just being made fun of.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Argentina: Vampire House
  • France: Vampires in Complete Privacy
  • Germany: 5 Room Kitchen Coffin
  • Hungary: Ordinary Vampires
  • Italy: Life As A Vampire
  • Japan: Share House with Vampires
  • Latvia: What Happens at Dusk
  • Mexico: Interview with Some Vampires
  • Romania: The Tribulations of Modern Vampires
  • Russia: Real Ghouls
  • Taiwan: Vampire Family Corpse
  • Turkey: Wandering Vampires
• The Danza:
  • Jackie Van Beek as Jackie and Stu Rutherford as Stu.
  • Karen O'Leary and Mike Minogue as officers O'Leary and Minogue.
• Descended Creator: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement not only directed and wrote the film, but they also star as Viago and Vladislav.
• Real Song Theme Tune: 1966 folk song "You're Dead" by Norma Tanega.
• Self-Remake: The film is a remake of a 2005 short film called What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires, which had also been directed by Clement and Waititi.
• Throw It In!: The bulk of the film. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi did write a script, but they didn't show it to any of the actors. Instead, they gave them general ideas of what was going to happen in a scene and let things pan out from there.

---