A vampire mockumentary that has been making the festival rounds (and recently received a US release date), What We Do In The Shadows offers a laugh-inducing look at the creatures of the night. We have a new clip from the film that shows what happens when vampires and werewolves bump into each other like rival gangs while out on the town, causing the lycanthropes to resort to calming exercises.

“Diving deep into the throes of vampire life in New Zealand, What We Do In The Shadowsintroduces us to age-old vampire flatmates Vladislav (862 years old, played by Clement) Viago (379 years old, played by Waititi), Deacon (183 years old) and Petyr (8,000 years old). Stuck in their antiquated ways, they struggle to adjust to 21st century customs, like paying rent, sharing household chores and getting expressly invited into nightclubs. Enter 20-something hipster Nick, who Petyr turns to get an inside education on the modern world. What follows includes a whole lot of discovery: from fashion to technology and even a little feeling — all laced in continuous hilarity, of course.”

What We Do in the Shadows stars Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs Shark), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), Rhys Darby, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stuart Rutherford and Jackie van Beek. The film is set to come out in the US on February 13th, 2015 and will be released in the UK on November 21st.

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    Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.

    When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.