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Are You Afraid Of The Dark Season 5 The Tale Of The Night Shift

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  • Complete Monster: "Margot" is a teenage girl who gets a job as a nurse at a hospital working on the night shift. We find out that "Margot" is actually a sadistic, ancient vampire who spends his time feeding on the hospital's staff and patients, one of whom is a young boy in a wheelchair, and attempting to turn them into his vampire slaves. When confronted by the episode's protagonist Amanda and her friend Colin, the vampire compares a hospital to a candy shop for him. When Amanda's recently turned friend Felix tries to help Amanda, the vampire attacks him too. During the climax of the episode, the vampire chases Amanda to the roof of the hospital and lifts her up, planning to drop her off and lick up what's left, all while relishing Amanda's screams, before deciding the old-fashioned way is a better way to kill.
  • Narm Charm: The vampire's threat when he catches Amanda... "I should drop you and then lick up what's left!"... could have (and probably should have) gone horribly wrong and came across as silly by putting the ridiculous image in the audience's head of a powerful centuries-old demonic vampire on all fours on the ground like a kitten lapping up a bowl of milk. But between the vampire being genuinely ominous and Emmanuelle Chriqui selling Amanda's terror with everything she's got as she's hanging over the hospital roof, it instead manages to move past that absurd image and is instead considered one of the most terrifying and chilling lines in the entire series.
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