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Vamp!	label	Vamp!
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Vamp!	comment	Vamp is a 1986 horror/comedy film starring Grace Jones.The film follows college students and best friends Keith and AJ, who, while trying to pledge for a fraternity, head out to find a stripper to dance for them. Their search leads them to the wrong side of town and a seedy stripper bar. There they find a stunningly beautiful stripper, Katrina (Jones), and settle on her as their main choice. However unbeknownst to them, the bar as well as the whole section of town is run by vampires. AJ finds this out first hand when he tries to convince Katrina to come dance for them and ends up as a meal for her instead. Keith meanwhile searches for his missing friend and slowly starts to realize that something isn't right with the town's patrons. Along the way he runs into a waitress working at the club, Amaretto, who joins in on his search as the two try to survive the night.
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Vamp! / int_19f6e383	type	Transhuman Treachery
Vamp! / int_19f6e383	comment	Transhuman Treachery: Subverted, AJ manages to fight back his hunger to help Keith escape and even requests to be staked so as not to kill him.
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Vamp! / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Vamp! / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The bow and arrow.
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Vamp! / int_25b212aa	type	Vampire Dance
Vamp! / int_25b212aa	comment	Vampire Dance: One of the highlights of the film when Katrina performs for the club.
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Vamp! / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
Vamp! / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Our heroes are menaced by a gang of evil albinos.
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Vamp! / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Vamp! / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The vampires don't attack indiscriminately, they mostly go for people with no family that would come looking for them so as to keep their secret safe. Which is the reason why Keith is a concern for them because the waitress at the time didn't know he was with AJ.
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Vamp! / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Vamp! / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Katrina's final act as her sun-disintegrated skeleton still has some movement left in it.
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Vamp! / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Vamp! / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Katrina isn't fond of failure as one unfortunate waitress finds out.
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Vamp! / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Vamp! / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: When Kevin runs AJ's car into the alley and hits another car, AJ's car doesn't just burn, but it bursts into flame and then exploded ten seconds later.
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Vamp! / int_3fb4b1cb	type	The Renfield
Vamp! / int_3fb4b1cb	comment	The Renfield: The club is run by two ex-mobsters who now serve as minions for Katrina. Vic even eats cockroaches in a nod to the original Renfield.
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Vamp! / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Vamp! / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For AJ at least, sure he saves his friends from being killed and fed on. But killing Katrina doesn't change him back and he's stuck as a vampire for the rest of his lif...er existence. He can't even join his friends on the surface when all's said and done. Having to stay stuck in the sewers to avoid the sunlight.
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Vamp! / int_42d7e070	type	Face-Revealing Turn
Vamp! / int_42d7e070	comment	Face-Revealing Turn: Played straight with Duncan after they try to escape the club in his car only to find out he was bitten and turned. Averted with Amaretto when it turns out to be a fake out.
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Vamp! / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Vamp! / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Duncan is portrayed this way through the first act.
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Vamp! / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Vamp! / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: The waitress that directed AJ to Katrina as she thought he was alone. Once it's found out Keith was with him. Katrina promptly kills her for failing to notice this and has her body thrown away in a dumpster with AJ's body which Keith later finds.
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Vamp! / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Vamp! / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Katrina sports a crackling one after drains AJ.
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Vamp! / int_72246a54	type	Game Face
Vamp! / int_72246a54	comment	Game Face: Katrina vamps out while having sex with AJ. We see her fangs form, her toenails growing longer and her eyes change color. AJ doesn't notice this until she starts screeching.
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Vamp! / int_75735299	type	Vampire Monarch
Vamp! / int_75735299	comment	Vampire Monarch: Katrina
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Vamp! / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
Vamp! / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: Seriously of all the places to go looking for entertainment.
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Vamp! / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Vamp! / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Keith makes his way around one in the middle of the movie and the climax takes place in one as well since it is the vampire's resting grounds.
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Vamp! / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Vamp! / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Katrina has no lines. She only laughs and hisses.
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Vamp! / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Vamp! / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Done twice in the film to kill a horde of vampires
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Vamp! / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Vamp! / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Vamp" can refer to a seductive woman (Katrina) or to an actual vampire.
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Vamp! / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Vamp! / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret
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Vamp! / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Vamp! / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Vampires whose one of their few weaknesses is fire sleep next to fuel barrels.
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Vamp! / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Vamp! / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: When Keith, Amaretto and Duncan try to flee the town in Duncan's car. Duncan claims he feels weird as they're driving off. Keith then looks in a mirror, notices he doesn't have a reflect and realizes he's been turned.
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Vamp! / int_c505d6ec	type	Missing Reflection
Vamp! / int_c505d6ec	comment	Missing Reflection: AJ reveals to Keith this trope is in effect after becoming a vampire. Later, as Keith is trying to leave town, he discovers Duncan has become a vampire when he doesn't see him in the rear view. The fact that the strippers are all vampires is Foreshadowed when two of them are shown facing one another through the empty mirror-frame of a double-sided makeup table, each applying cosmetics to the other. It's subtle, but Katrina's reflection doesn't appear in the aquarium glass when she comes up behind AJ, who checking his clothes in the same glass.
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Vamp! / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
Vamp! / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Keith spots an undead girl attacking a hobo while prowling around town. She is also part of the undead group that try corner Amaretto and him.
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Vamp! / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Vamp! / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The first act is whacky, and the second act combines comedy and horror. The third act is mostly a straight horror-survival, with a few jokes at the end.
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Vamp! / int_d34a0281	type	Vampires Own Night Clubs
Vamp! / int_d34a0281	comment	Vampires Own Night Clubs: Well, a bar in this case.
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Vamp! / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Vamp! / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: AJ tells this to Keith upon find his finding out he's a vampire.
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Vamp! / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Vamp! / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Amaretto is teased as a vampire in the third act. After she denies being a vampire, the camera pans to a fish-eye mirror that shows Keith but not her, leaving it ambiguous as to whether she was simply out of the mirror's range or has no reflection. She's ultimately proven human when she steps into sunlight.
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Vamp! / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Vamp! / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: AJ is the lead in the first act, until he's bitten by Katrina. Keith then takes over as the hero.
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Vamp! / int_ea1fe5d3	type	Staking the Loved One
Vamp! / int_ea1fe5d3	comment	Staking the Loved One: Keith to AJ he gets better.
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Vamp! / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Vamp! / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: AJ returns to save Keith and Amaretto from Katherine's lover at the climax
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Vamp	seeAlso	Vamp!
Vamp!	hasFeature	Vampires Own Night Clubs / int_b371ac08

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