10 Party Animal Horror Movies
7. We Are The Night
The poster for 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys famously carried the blurb, "sleep all day, party all night, never grow old, never die, it's fun to be a vampire" - and yet, the film itself never really explored the potential pleasures of being a vampire, preferring to focus on angst. However, 2010 German horror We Are The Night delves rather more deeply into the hedonistic excess that vampirism would allow.
The appeal of becoming a vampire is, from the get-go, inherently linked with the urge to party. Troubled young Lisbeth Salander lookalike Lena (Karoline Herfurth) stumbles upon a remote rave in a disused nightclub, where she soon winds up bitten on the neck by vampire party queen Louise (Nina Hoss).
Initially appalled, Lena gradually embraces her new condition, which comes with serious perks; not least the fact that, as one character puts it, they can eat, drink, take drugs and have sex as much as they want, and it will never harm them.
Still, this is not to suggest that We Are The Night is all pleasure, no pain; it doesn't take too long for our fanged anti-heroines to grow disillusioned with the non-stop partying, particularly when it means they can't go out in the sunshine. But the film certainly makes vampirism look like it could be fun for a while.