Dance of the Damned (1989) - full transcript
A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life before taking it, and during the course of the evening they discuss their differences, their fears, and their lifestyles. As the moment of truth approaches, the woman becomes less sure that she wants to die.
[tense music]
[heartbeat thumping]
[upbeat music]
[people chattering]
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
[door closes]
[heels clacking]
[upbeat music]
[audience clapping]
- Okay, so I screwed up.
Give me another
chance, I'm his mother.
- [Man On Phone]
Forget it, Jodi.
- Isn't a year long
enough punishment?
- [Man] [indistinct]
too late [indistinct].
- No, it's not too late.
[man on phone
talking indistinctly]
Don't talk to me about
that court order.
It's his birthday.
It's his birthday.
God dammit.
Please put him on the phone.
Please put him on the phone.
[line hangs up]
[dial tone humming]
[upbeat music]
[dial tone humming]
[coins clacking]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- Jodi.
- Don't hang up.
I know I haven't been a good...
[tense music]
[Jodi talking indistinctly]
Come on!
Come on!
Don't want any more money.
[man on phone
talking indistinctly]
Put your dick in a splint, man.
Can't you just put
him on this phone?
Just once, please.
Don't...
[dial tone humming]
[Jodi grunts]
[upbeat music]
[Jodi gasps]
- [Waitress] Excuse me sir, but
there's a two drink minimum.
[tense music]
- [laughs] I guess I
fucked this up too.
- This shit's gotta stop.
What do you think
we're gonna do,
step around you for
the next few hours?
Who you fooling?
Pills is chicken.
Everybody knows you just
want somebody to come around
and save you and then they
gotta save you every other week.
You wanna do it?
Don't be half-ass.
- La Donna, you're nuts.
- I'm nuts?
You're the suicide.
Come on, I know you're
not gonna use it.
Tomorrow I want this
back and I don't wanna
hear about this shit anymore.
- Oh, excuse me.
I gotta get ready, you guys.
- Who ripped out the phone?
- Now what?
- You wanna look?
- It's not coming
outta my salary.
- I can't go on again.
- Somebody will come for you.
- [Woman] Nobody's on the floor.
- Hey, that table
of dykes is mine.
- You always get the girls.
- They tip good.
Oh yeah, Jodi, Sunday,
your night to lock up.
- Can you handle it?
- What else do I gotta do?
[mysterious music]
[upbeat music]
[music stops]
[tense music]
[mysterious music]
[tense music]
[Jodi gasps]
[mysterious music]
[heartbeat thumping]
- You don't have to hurt me.
You don't even have
to rip my dress.
- It's not what I want.
- Good.
- I have money.
- I'm not a hooker.
Do you think I'd work my
butt off for 500 bucks a week
if I can make it in a night?
- I think you're lonely
and it's been a bad night.
I wanna talk to you.
I haven't talked to
anybody in a long time.
[mysterious music]
What's your name?
- Jodi.
- Jodi.
I don't usually hide
out to meet women.
I was waiting for you to
leave, and when you didn't-
- Why me?
- Because you've been crying.
This place is warm, you're cold.
You're still here
listening to me.
- I don't go out with customers.
- I think you need a friend.
So do I.
Until dawn.
We'll talk, share
something of who we are.
- A thousand bucks?
- For the sleep
you're gonna miss.
- I don't have a
thousand dollars worth
of things to talk about.
You must be pretty lonely.
- Is that a yes?
- It means I don't give a shit.
[neon sign buzzing]
- I don't drive.
- You're kidding.
You sure you can afford this?
- Oh, I have a pass.
- Come on, I'm rich,
I'll spring for a cab.
- Bus will be here in a minute.
- Listen, you're a nice guy.
I can't take your green.
Guys that come see you
dance think you're gonna
be something, so you go out
with them and they get bored
because you turn out
to be a regular person.
Come on.
[bus rumbling]
Hey, stop!
Thanks.
[people talking indistinctly]
So what kind of business
you in, big spender?
- I've never had a guest
in my house before.
- Your house?
I never told you I was
going home with you.
- Are we supposed to go
someplace else first?
[man groaning]
- Ooh.
Spare change?
Nice outfit.
- Don't.
- He already has.
- [Man] Wanna touch my karma?
- [Jodi] You wanna
get it outta my face?
- [Man] I wanna
suck on your shoes.
- Aren't you gonna do anything?
- Hmm?
- Say yes.
- Yes.
- Just don't hit me
with your flower.
[suspenseful music]
[man groaning]
Boo.
- Stop the bus!
Stop the fucking bus!
- Where have you
been all my life?
No thanks.
Are you sure you
live around here?
Are we getting close?
I'm getting cold.
Shit.
You said you wanted
to talk, remember?
- Tell me about the
daylight, how the sun
feels on your skin.
- How would I know?
I work nights.
- I know about the nights.
- Yeah, well you
tell me about it.
- All right
Listen.
The scream of a mouse
caught in a trap.
Humans making love
with the television on.
A cat watching us from
that bush over there.
Kite is caught in the
top branch of that tree.
- Come on, you're kidding.
What tree?
- That one.
- Hey.
[Jodi laughing]
[mysterious music]
- Can't stand the
smell of cigarettes.
It's the smoke.
- What are you, a magician?
Listen, this is not gonna work.
Give me my bag.
- What did I do?
- It's just that I'm not
in the mood, all right?
Hand it over.
- This is my house.
- Yeah right.
[insects chirping]
[birds chirping]
[door opens]
[mysterious music]
[door closes]
- Would you like a drink?
- Beer?
- I have wine.
- Okay.
You really are rich.
- Long-term investments.
- Are you gay?
It's just that you really
have great taste, you know.
I don't have a problem
with it at all.
Lot of girls...
[vampire laughing]
- I'm not even human.
- So long.
Move.
- Please.
You called me.
There's a dark
space in your soul.
A little piece of death.
[glass shatters]
[mysterious music]
[Jodi gasps]
- Please!
I just wanna go!
I just wanna go!
- Tell me about your
world, and at sunrise,
I'll end your pain.
[Jodi shouts]
[gunshots banging]
[mysterious music]
[tense music]
[Jodi grunting]
- Oh god.
[dial tone humming]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- [Operator] You have
reached emergency services.
All lines are busy, please hold.
[speaking foreign language]
[dial tone humming]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- You have just
reached the residence
of La Donna Duke.
If this is Brian,
kiss my fat ass.
If this is Mom, I'll
see you Saturday.
And if this is Wally,
tell them it'll be
50 for the Polaroids,
not penny more.
[phone beeps]
[Jodi gasping]
[tense music]
[Jodi screams]
- What are you?
- You know.
[Jodi crying]
- Let me go.
I won't tell anyone.
- That's not what you want.
- What do you know about me?
- That you don't want to live.
And if I don't feed
tonight, I'll die.
Change your clothes.
[mysterious music]
[clock chiming]
Six.
- [Jodi] What?
- The dawn.
It's at six o'clock.
- Can't you take some animal?
A dog or a horse?
Why me?
- The blood of
animals is incomplete.
It lacks your spirit, your soul.
Look, I rarely
feed, and when I do,
I only take the ones
that have given up.
I want to talk about the day.
- What do you wanna know?
- How it feels.
- It doesn't feel like anything.
- The sunlight on your skin.
- Hot.
- That's not what I'm asking!
[mysterious music]
What does it look like?
- What?
- The sun.
- You can't look at
it, it's too bright.
- You're of the sun, you
felt it a thousand times.
I've never felt it!
Tell me.
- I was in Palm Springs
and the air felt thick,
and I laid out on the
grass, and it felt so hot
that I thought the
sun was hugging me.
[vampire groans]
- Go ahead.
[mysterious music]
The rain.
- It rains at night.
What do you want, rainbows?
You picked the wrong girl.
I'm like you, I sleep all day.
If I happen to get
up, it's because
the gardener's running
his goddamn blower.
- I want to hear about
something I can't see.
I want to touch it
through your words.
- Do you want me to
give you the day?
I can't.
I don't think about it.
I don't give a shit about it.
Just trying to get
through with it.
So do you do this often?
Kidnap someone?
- [Vampire] Humans are chattel.
I could take you right now.
- Six o'clock, you
said six o'clock.
You want me to talk,
I'll talk to you.
What do you wanna know?
Come on!
Ask me something I
know the answer to!
- What does it feel
like to have a friend?
- I don't have any.
[mysterious music]
I don't get close to people.
The only person I hang out
with is this girl La Donna.
She's crazy.
It's not like a real friendship.
Sometimes she's there
when I need a hug.
What do you want?
I'm afraid to die.
- There won't be any pain.
Our hearts beat.
Yours strong and mine weak,
yours fighting, beating harder,
pulling mine faster,
until for a moment,
they're synchronized.
And as your life
begins to fill mine,
you'll know peace,
while I begin to hunger
again and again, forever.
[Jodi gasps]
- Why'd you let me shoot you?
- So you could see
how hopeless it is.
[exercise bike whirring]
Look at this.
You have all these different
buttons telling you
a hundred different things,
you do all this work,
and when you're finished, you're
exactly where you started.
Quite an interesting metaphor
of your civilization.
- Stop it!
You said you chose me
because I wanted to die.
Well, you're right.
Do it.
Do it, kill me!
- Human life is a spark.
You die like insects.
Don't you see, that's your gift.
The adventure of not knowing.
The danger's what
makes it worthwhile.
Fear is what gives
your life meaning.
My life is endless.
I can't get sick.
If I'm hurt, I heal.
I mean, I'll live to
see constellations
change in the sky.
I envy your mortality.
- Are you trying
to tell me this is
the best night of my life?
- No, I'm asking you
to share with me.
- Fuck you.
- Look at this.
$1500 and I don't
know how to work it.
[Jodi shouts]
[table crashing]
- What are you gonna do?
Show me your teeth,
your claws maybe?
Fine night together.
You do Bella Lugosi
and I get terrified
and that's your idea of a date!
- Forgot to break this.
Why do you care?
- I don't even like this Barbie.
This is the new version.
I had the old one.
It wasn't wholesome
like this one.
She wore a lot of makeup.
You wanted to know
about my friends?
When I was a kid,
she was my friend.
She was tough.
No one messed with her.
I wanted to be just like her.
At least I have nipples.
[mysterious music]
Do you touch your victims?
Look at them?
Pose them?
Do you ever take a man?
That's what I thought.
[gentle music]
[mysterious music]
[clock ticking]
- What's this?
- For cleaning cassettes.
- You're lying.
I can feel the heat off your
body, catch in your voice.
- It's my son.
Okay?
- You're a mother.
- Surprised?
Couldn't you sense
my stretch marks?
He was born a couple
months after my marriage.
His father's family
is very rich,
and their lawyer told me what
a burden a child would be.
And he didn't even say,
"to someone like you."
So I listened.
They even gave me
liberal visitation.
But he wasn't mine anymore.
Then one weekend, I took him.
They found me.
And now I'm not allowed
to talk to him or see him.
- That's the way you want it.
Your voice is hollow
and your body's cool.
- What could you possibly
know of families of children?
- My mother was destroyed
when I was a child.
- You were never a child.
- I'm not supernatural.
I'm a separate species.
Not like your fiction.
I was born, not made.
The only things humans
have right is that
fire and sunlight can kill us.
We were starving.
There was this coach by
the side of the road.
Had a broken axle.
We killed more
than we should've.
Drunk on blood, we
ignored the graying sky.
Felt the dawn, but
we couldn't stop.
We couldn't make it home,
so we hid in this barn
and buried ourselves
under alfalfa.
I remember tiny
purple and red flowers
mixed in my mother's hair.
I guess someone followed us,
and they lit the barn on fire.
My mother tried to protect me.
She covered me with her body.
Her hair was on fire.
She told me to dig
into the ground.
I wanted to stay with
her, but she started
pushing me so hard
into the earth
that I thought she
was gonna crush me,
so I had to keep digging.
For a while, I could hear...
Her cries.
And then...
The darkness took her.
When I woke up, I
was suffocating.
The dirt was like cement
in my nose and my mouth.
I broke through the earth.
Nothing was there.
Just an empty field.
A hundred years had passed.
Scars on my body
didn't fade for almost
a hundred more, some never did.
You see, my people
only appreciate beauty.
They shunned me.
I sickened them.
They didn't want to be reminded
that living forever is a curse.
So I grew up living on
the edge of your society,
taking dogs, rats, your dead.
But it wasn't enough.
It was never enough.
Finally, when I did get
strong enough to hunt again,
that first taste of real blood
began to heal me in ways
the years never could.
So I grew up living
in the kind of places
where a child alone is ignored,
and if someone
disappears, nobody cares.
- That's why you
picked me, isn't it?
I'm the kind of person
no one will miss.
Got any aspirin?
- I use them to keep the
flowers alive longer.
- They're not really alive.
They're dead, they
only look alive.
Some guy wants to
go to bed with you
and he brings you a
bunch of dead things.
Never understood flowers.
Christmas trees,
butterfly collections.
So where's your coffin?
- I don't sleep in a coffin.
- You're really disappointing.
You can't turn into
smoke, be a bat.
You can't fly.
You drink and you certainly
haven't hypnotized me.
Stop staring at my legs.
[Jodi yelps]
- I wanted this to be different.
When I saw you on stage,
I thought you understood.
- Everybody thinks
I'm dancing for them.
It's an act.
[Jodi exhaling]
Surprised you couldn't
sense the lie.
I don't even remember you.
[vampire quivering]
I don't care about the
people watching me.
- Not true.
- It's their needs.
Get off on their energy flowing
inside of me, all right?
That's what you sense.
[Jodi gasps]
- You use men.
- You're hurting me.
- We're the same.
We both live off the
energy of other people,
and we can't change who we are.
- You're just mad
because you were fooled.
I didn't mean to do it.
I didn't even know
you were there.
[mysterious music]
[Jodi squeals]
- I'm sorry.
- Oh god.
[Jodi coughs]
Oh.
- Let's have a drink.
- When I was 14, my
mother's boyfriend raped me.
I told her.
Of course, he said
it never happened.
Mm.
Got anything to eat?
So the next time he
came into my room,
I nearly cut his twinkie off.
Figured that ought to
prove my point. [giggles]
Of course, he said that I
attacked him though, you know?
Anyways, then I
found myself like,
in this like really
mental funny farm
with all these way-out people.
All you had to do is turn it on.
Anyways, the whole place smelled
like dirty socks and piss.
It was really disgusting.
The guards, oh
excuse me, the aides,
they had a field day cause
I was the only thing there
under 160 pounds
and 400 years old.
No offense.
Where's the key?
Anyways, you learn
how to turn off,
function on automatic, and
cry when no one's looking.
There was this ventilation
hole in the bathroom.
I thought if I starved myself
I could squeeze on through.
It only lasted about a week.
See, I told you, I
have no willpower.
Anyways, I ended up making
a lot of copper enameling.
Still got some nice ash
trays in my apartment.
Think fast.
You got a lady vampire?
How old are you?
Let me guess.
300.
A thousand.
And you're still a virgin.
- I'm an outcast!
- You wanna hurt me again?
Come on, chicken.
Is this what you want?
- No.
The way I look is
evolutionary camouflage.
I appear to be human so
you won't believe in me.
I'm not like you.
- [Jodi] Oh god.
[smooth jazz music]
[Jodi gasping]
- You fraud.
"Evolutionary camouflage."
And watch pornos
of cows fucking.
I'm just food to you, right.
- You'll never understand the
emptiness of living forever.
[clock chiming]
- It's the first time I
missed my son's birthday.
- Today?
- Yesterday.
I blew it.
[Jodi sighs]
- No, you didn't.
- What do you mean?
- The night belongs to
the day it followed.
See?
The next day starts at
five in the morning.
Look, if you stay up
late Saturday night,
fall asleep at two
a.m., you don't say
you went to bed
early Sunday morning,
you say you went to bed
very late Saturday night.
- So what?
- So tonight's still yesterday.
It's still your son's birthday.
Put your jacket
on, I'll get mine.
- Why?
- Where does he live?
- Don't do this to me.
- No, I can give this to
you if you'll just let me.
[upbeat music]
[man talking
indistinctly on radio]
- You must be married.
Usually about this time of
night, you only get the hoes.
You partying?
I mean, want some shit?
Pretty ritzy neighborhood.
What the hell?
- Just drive.
Bulletproof.
[tense music]
[mysterious music]
- Wait.
This is it?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
- That one.
- Come here, come here.
Come here.
Hold on, hold on.
Don't let go
[mysterious music]
[Jodi laughs]
Let go of my hand.
Look, I only got two,
I need one of 'em
to open the damn window, now
let go or I'm gonna drop you,
and your son and I
can have a nice talk.
- Daniel.
It's me, Mommy.
Don't you remember?
- Mommy.
- I missed you so much.
I love you so much.
I want you to always remember
whenever you think of me.
Always know how much
I love you, okay?
Know something else?
This isn't a dream.
- Mommy, you're weird.
I love you, Mommy.
- Oh, I love you too, Daniel.
[tense music]
- Jodi.
- [Jodi] Happy birthday.
- [Man] Daniel?
You all right?
[door closes]
- Santa Monica Pier, please.
- Very bad neighborhood
this time of night.
Okay.
- Why?
- I owe you one.
[keys jangling]
Hey, does that blanket
got crabs or anything?
- Oh, lady, please,
not my blankie.
All right, but try not to...
Nevermind.
[Jodi laughing]
- Haven't you ever been
to the beach before?
- I didn't want to, not
without the sunlight.
I can't find my balance.
- Now you know how I
feel most of the time.
[cab driver exhales]
Wait here.
I'll be right back.
- Where you going?
- Well, if they
haven't fixed it yet,
it's something I used
to do when I was a kid,
to the neckers.
- Your fastest movement
is like slow motion to me.
I can hear your
heartbeat a block away.
- You gave me my son, now
I'm gonna give you yours.
Damn.
[tense music]
[vampire groaning]
- Oh no.
- This is the sun.
You aren't not supposed
to be on the sand yet.
Take off your clothes.
Trust me.
- Do I leave on my underwear?
- Would I take you to a nude
beach your first time out?
Kinky.
Now lay down and
close your eyes.
Will you face the sun?
- Hmm?
- Okay.
Now pretend it's almost
noon and you feel
the warm salt air
all over your body.
You smell something
coconuty and you realize
it's the sun tan
lotion in the wind.
Million different radios
are all playing at once.
"California Dreaming," some
Bach, a little rap, Miles Davis.
Cool spray of water hits your
body, and it surprises you.
It feels real good 'cause it
just cooled you right off.
A cry of gulls.
They just sound
like another song.
And you're getting
really thirsty.
Someone hands you a cold
beer, tastes real good.
Tingles all the way down.
Little kids with ice cream cones
melting all over their hands.
Sand sticking to their bodies
where the ice cream dripped.
The mothers are,
they're trying to
clean off their kids
in the ocean waves.
Above all is the sun.
Sparkle of it hitting the water.
Holding you.
Warming you.
Healing you.
- Thank you.
- You're right.
I am full of shit.
I didn't want him.
Couldn't handle him.
All this talk about my child
and being a mother and stuff.
Even when I had him, did
I take 'em up to Canada?
No, I ended up in Ventura.
Took them exactly
three weeks to find me.
I wanted them to.
I knew they would.
Just needed to tell
myself that I'd tried.
I don't wanna die.
I wish I could start over.
[vehicle approaching]
[man talking
indistinctly on radio]
- All right, who's been
messing around with the light?
- I think you gave me whiplash.
- Where to, boss?
- Paradise Cafe.
- Why?
- One more dance for me.
- Wait here.
[tense music]
[upbeat music]
- No!
[Jodi shouts]
[table crashing]
[solemn music]
- Make love to me.
You have to.
You have to.
- Bye.
[glass shatters]
- You will drive home,
destroy tonight's logs,
sleep, and when you
awaken, you will remember
nothing about me,
her, this house.
You will remember a
rich man who forgot
his wallet in your car.
You threw it in the trash
after removing the money.
Understand?
- What happened to my blankie?
- You ate it.
[cab driver coughing]
Drive.
- You could've done that to me.
- I wanted tonight
to be your choice.
- Some choice.
[door closes]
[clock chiming and ticking]
- It's not like your mythology.
My bite can't turn
you into what I am,
or the Earth would be
overrun by my kind.
- What are you talking about?
- I can give you something.
[mysterious music]
This is too much for
me when I haven't fed.
[tense music]
I want you to know.
[Jodi grunting]
[Jodi whimpering]
No!
[mysterious music]
It's temporary, like a drug.
It will fade in a few minutes.
But you'll know what I am.
Forgive me.
- I wanna go outside.
What's the matter?
You afraid of me now?
[mysterious music]
[birds chirping]
[tense music]
- You want me to take
him, let you live?
- Run!
[clock chiming and ticking]
[door closes]
- I need you now.
- [Jodi] I can't!
- Don't fight me.
Your power's fading.
[Jodi shouting]
[glass shatters]
[suspenseful music]
[tense music]
[vampire shouting]
[Jodi grunts]
- Oh!
Oh!
[vampire groaning]
[vampire groaning]
[Jodi shouting]
Oh...
Oh.
- You can't escape.
Every moment leaves
you more human.
- [Jodi] Thank God!
[Jodi grunting]
[vampire groans]
[tense music]
Oh, oh.
Oh...
[Jodi whimpering]
[Jodi shouting]
[shutters clicking]
[camera clicks]
[vampire shouts]
Oh!
Oh, god.
[tense music]
[Jodi groaning]
Please don't come in!
Please don't come in!
No.
- It is beautiful.
[solemn music]
♪ I was captured by the
music from the start ♪
♪ Driven by the
pulsing of your heart ♪
♪ We were prisoners
of our needs ♪
♪ Trapped by what we see
♪ We could die 100
times but we can ♪
♪ Never leave
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ But tonight
♪ I dance
♪ With you
♪ Oh
♪ Could there be some
truth inside your lies ♪
♪ Now I see the distant
danger in your eyes ♪
♪ Is it me or is it you
♪ Who hunts and who hurts who
♪ And who will be the first
to pull the other through ♪
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ But tonight
♪ I dance with you
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
[heartbeat thumping]
[upbeat music]
[people chattering]
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
[door closes]
[heels clacking]
[upbeat music]
[audience clapping]
- Okay, so I screwed up.
Give me another
chance, I'm his mother.
- [Man On Phone]
Forget it, Jodi.
- Isn't a year long
enough punishment?
- [Man] [indistinct]
too late [indistinct].
- No, it's not too late.
[man on phone
talking indistinctly]
Don't talk to me about
that court order.
It's his birthday.
It's his birthday.
God dammit.
Please put him on the phone.
Please put him on the phone.
[line hangs up]
[dial tone humming]
[upbeat music]
[dial tone humming]
[coins clacking]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- Jodi.
- Don't hang up.
I know I haven't been a good...
[tense music]
[Jodi talking indistinctly]
Come on!
Come on!
Don't want any more money.
[man on phone
talking indistinctly]
Put your dick in a splint, man.
Can't you just put
him on this phone?
Just once, please.
Don't...
[dial tone humming]
[Jodi grunts]
[upbeat music]
[Jodi gasps]
- [Waitress] Excuse me sir, but
there's a two drink minimum.
[tense music]
- [laughs] I guess I
fucked this up too.
- This shit's gotta stop.
What do you think
we're gonna do,
step around you for
the next few hours?
Who you fooling?
Pills is chicken.
Everybody knows you just
want somebody to come around
and save you and then they
gotta save you every other week.
You wanna do it?
Don't be half-ass.
- La Donna, you're nuts.
- I'm nuts?
You're the suicide.
Come on, I know you're
not gonna use it.
Tomorrow I want this
back and I don't wanna
hear about this shit anymore.
- Oh, excuse me.
I gotta get ready, you guys.
- Who ripped out the phone?
- Now what?
- You wanna look?
- It's not coming
outta my salary.
- I can't go on again.
- Somebody will come for you.
- [Woman] Nobody's on the floor.
- Hey, that table
of dykes is mine.
- You always get the girls.
- They tip good.
Oh yeah, Jodi, Sunday,
your night to lock up.
- Can you handle it?
- What else do I gotta do?
[mysterious music]
[upbeat music]
[music stops]
[tense music]
[mysterious music]
[tense music]
[Jodi gasps]
[mysterious music]
[heartbeat thumping]
- You don't have to hurt me.
You don't even have
to rip my dress.
- It's not what I want.
- Good.
- I have money.
- I'm not a hooker.
Do you think I'd work my
butt off for 500 bucks a week
if I can make it in a night?
- I think you're lonely
and it's been a bad night.
I wanna talk to you.
I haven't talked to
anybody in a long time.
[mysterious music]
What's your name?
- Jodi.
- Jodi.
I don't usually hide
out to meet women.
I was waiting for you to
leave, and when you didn't-
- Why me?
- Because you've been crying.
This place is warm, you're cold.
You're still here
listening to me.
- I don't go out with customers.
- I think you need a friend.
So do I.
Until dawn.
We'll talk, share
something of who we are.
- A thousand bucks?
- For the sleep
you're gonna miss.
- I don't have a
thousand dollars worth
of things to talk about.
You must be pretty lonely.
- Is that a yes?
- It means I don't give a shit.
[neon sign buzzing]
- I don't drive.
- You're kidding.
You sure you can afford this?
- Oh, I have a pass.
- Come on, I'm rich,
I'll spring for a cab.
- Bus will be here in a minute.
- Listen, you're a nice guy.
I can't take your green.
Guys that come see you
dance think you're gonna
be something, so you go out
with them and they get bored
because you turn out
to be a regular person.
Come on.
[bus rumbling]
Hey, stop!
Thanks.
[people talking indistinctly]
So what kind of business
you in, big spender?
- I've never had a guest
in my house before.
- Your house?
I never told you I was
going home with you.
- Are we supposed to go
someplace else first?
[man groaning]
- Ooh.
Spare change?
Nice outfit.
- Don't.
- He already has.
- [Man] Wanna touch my karma?
- [Jodi] You wanna
get it outta my face?
- [Man] I wanna
suck on your shoes.
- Aren't you gonna do anything?
- Hmm?
- Say yes.
- Yes.
- Just don't hit me
with your flower.
[suspenseful music]
[man groaning]
Boo.
- Stop the bus!
Stop the fucking bus!
- Where have you
been all my life?
No thanks.
Are you sure you
live around here?
Are we getting close?
I'm getting cold.
Shit.
You said you wanted
to talk, remember?
- Tell me about the
daylight, how the sun
feels on your skin.
- How would I know?
I work nights.
- I know about the nights.
- Yeah, well you
tell me about it.
- All right
Listen.
The scream of a mouse
caught in a trap.
Humans making love
with the television on.
A cat watching us from
that bush over there.
Kite is caught in the
top branch of that tree.
- Come on, you're kidding.
What tree?
- That one.
- Hey.
[Jodi laughing]
[mysterious music]
- Can't stand the
smell of cigarettes.
It's the smoke.
- What are you, a magician?
Listen, this is not gonna work.
Give me my bag.
- What did I do?
- It's just that I'm not
in the mood, all right?
Hand it over.
- This is my house.
- Yeah right.
[insects chirping]
[birds chirping]
[door opens]
[mysterious music]
[door closes]
- Would you like a drink?
- Beer?
- I have wine.
- Okay.
You really are rich.
- Long-term investments.
- Are you gay?
It's just that you really
have great taste, you know.
I don't have a problem
with it at all.
Lot of girls...
[vampire laughing]
- I'm not even human.
- So long.
Move.
- Please.
You called me.
There's a dark
space in your soul.
A little piece of death.
[glass shatters]
[mysterious music]
[Jodi gasps]
- Please!
I just wanna go!
I just wanna go!
- Tell me about your
world, and at sunrise,
I'll end your pain.
[Jodi shouts]
[gunshots banging]
[mysterious music]
[tense music]
[Jodi grunting]
- Oh god.
[dial tone humming]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- [Operator] You have
reached emergency services.
All lines are busy, please hold.
[speaking foreign language]
[dial tone humming]
[phone buttons beeping]
[phone line ringing]
- You have just
reached the residence
of La Donna Duke.
If this is Brian,
kiss my fat ass.
If this is Mom, I'll
see you Saturday.
And if this is Wally,
tell them it'll be
50 for the Polaroids,
not penny more.
[phone beeps]
[Jodi gasping]
[tense music]
[Jodi screams]
- What are you?
- You know.
[Jodi crying]
- Let me go.
I won't tell anyone.
- That's not what you want.
- What do you know about me?
- That you don't want to live.
And if I don't feed
tonight, I'll die.
Change your clothes.
[mysterious music]
[clock chiming]
Six.
- [Jodi] What?
- The dawn.
It's at six o'clock.
- Can't you take some animal?
A dog or a horse?
Why me?
- The blood of
animals is incomplete.
It lacks your spirit, your soul.
Look, I rarely
feed, and when I do,
I only take the ones
that have given up.
I want to talk about the day.
- What do you wanna know?
- How it feels.
- It doesn't feel like anything.
- The sunlight on your skin.
- Hot.
- That's not what I'm asking!
[mysterious music]
What does it look like?
- What?
- The sun.
- You can't look at
it, it's too bright.
- You're of the sun, you
felt it a thousand times.
I've never felt it!
Tell me.
- I was in Palm Springs
and the air felt thick,
and I laid out on the
grass, and it felt so hot
that I thought the
sun was hugging me.
[vampire groans]
- Go ahead.
[mysterious music]
The rain.
- It rains at night.
What do you want, rainbows?
You picked the wrong girl.
I'm like you, I sleep all day.
If I happen to get
up, it's because
the gardener's running
his goddamn blower.
- I want to hear about
something I can't see.
I want to touch it
through your words.
- Do you want me to
give you the day?
I can't.
I don't think about it.
I don't give a shit about it.
Just trying to get
through with it.
So do you do this often?
Kidnap someone?
- [Vampire] Humans are chattel.
I could take you right now.
- Six o'clock, you
said six o'clock.
You want me to talk,
I'll talk to you.
What do you wanna know?
Come on!
Ask me something I
know the answer to!
- What does it feel
like to have a friend?
- I don't have any.
[mysterious music]
I don't get close to people.
The only person I hang out
with is this girl La Donna.
She's crazy.
It's not like a real friendship.
Sometimes she's there
when I need a hug.
What do you want?
I'm afraid to die.
- There won't be any pain.
Our hearts beat.
Yours strong and mine weak,
yours fighting, beating harder,
pulling mine faster,
until for a moment,
they're synchronized.
And as your life
begins to fill mine,
you'll know peace,
while I begin to hunger
again and again, forever.
[Jodi gasps]
- Why'd you let me shoot you?
- So you could see
how hopeless it is.
[exercise bike whirring]
Look at this.
You have all these different
buttons telling you
a hundred different things,
you do all this work,
and when you're finished, you're
exactly where you started.
Quite an interesting metaphor
of your civilization.
- Stop it!
You said you chose me
because I wanted to die.
Well, you're right.
Do it.
Do it, kill me!
- Human life is a spark.
You die like insects.
Don't you see, that's your gift.
The adventure of not knowing.
The danger's what
makes it worthwhile.
Fear is what gives
your life meaning.
My life is endless.
I can't get sick.
If I'm hurt, I heal.
I mean, I'll live to
see constellations
change in the sky.
I envy your mortality.
- Are you trying
to tell me this is
the best night of my life?
- No, I'm asking you
to share with me.
- Fuck you.
- Look at this.
$1500 and I don't
know how to work it.
[Jodi shouts]
[table crashing]
- What are you gonna do?
Show me your teeth,
your claws maybe?
Fine night together.
You do Bella Lugosi
and I get terrified
and that's your idea of a date!
- Forgot to break this.
Why do you care?
- I don't even like this Barbie.
This is the new version.
I had the old one.
It wasn't wholesome
like this one.
She wore a lot of makeup.
You wanted to know
about my friends?
When I was a kid,
she was my friend.
She was tough.
No one messed with her.
I wanted to be just like her.
At least I have nipples.
[mysterious music]
Do you touch your victims?
Look at them?
Pose them?
Do you ever take a man?
That's what I thought.
[gentle music]
[mysterious music]
[clock ticking]
- What's this?
- For cleaning cassettes.
- You're lying.
I can feel the heat off your
body, catch in your voice.
- It's my son.
Okay?
- You're a mother.
- Surprised?
Couldn't you sense
my stretch marks?
He was born a couple
months after my marriage.
His father's family
is very rich,
and their lawyer told me what
a burden a child would be.
And he didn't even say,
"to someone like you."
So I listened.
They even gave me
liberal visitation.
But he wasn't mine anymore.
Then one weekend, I took him.
They found me.
And now I'm not allowed
to talk to him or see him.
- That's the way you want it.
Your voice is hollow
and your body's cool.
- What could you possibly
know of families of children?
- My mother was destroyed
when I was a child.
- You were never a child.
- I'm not supernatural.
I'm a separate species.
Not like your fiction.
I was born, not made.
The only things humans
have right is that
fire and sunlight can kill us.
We were starving.
There was this coach by
the side of the road.
Had a broken axle.
We killed more
than we should've.
Drunk on blood, we
ignored the graying sky.
Felt the dawn, but
we couldn't stop.
We couldn't make it home,
so we hid in this barn
and buried ourselves
under alfalfa.
I remember tiny
purple and red flowers
mixed in my mother's hair.
I guess someone followed us,
and they lit the barn on fire.
My mother tried to protect me.
She covered me with her body.
Her hair was on fire.
She told me to dig
into the ground.
I wanted to stay with
her, but she started
pushing me so hard
into the earth
that I thought she
was gonna crush me,
so I had to keep digging.
For a while, I could hear...
Her cries.
And then...
The darkness took her.
When I woke up, I
was suffocating.
The dirt was like cement
in my nose and my mouth.
I broke through the earth.
Nothing was there.
Just an empty field.
A hundred years had passed.
Scars on my body
didn't fade for almost
a hundred more, some never did.
You see, my people
only appreciate beauty.
They shunned me.
I sickened them.
They didn't want to be reminded
that living forever is a curse.
So I grew up living on
the edge of your society,
taking dogs, rats, your dead.
But it wasn't enough.
It was never enough.
Finally, when I did get
strong enough to hunt again,
that first taste of real blood
began to heal me in ways
the years never could.
So I grew up living
in the kind of places
where a child alone is ignored,
and if someone
disappears, nobody cares.
- That's why you
picked me, isn't it?
I'm the kind of person
no one will miss.
Got any aspirin?
- I use them to keep the
flowers alive longer.
- They're not really alive.
They're dead, they
only look alive.
Some guy wants to
go to bed with you
and he brings you a
bunch of dead things.
Never understood flowers.
Christmas trees,
butterfly collections.
So where's your coffin?
- I don't sleep in a coffin.
- You're really disappointing.
You can't turn into
smoke, be a bat.
You can't fly.
You drink and you certainly
haven't hypnotized me.
Stop staring at my legs.
[Jodi yelps]
- I wanted this to be different.
When I saw you on stage,
I thought you understood.
- Everybody thinks
I'm dancing for them.
It's an act.
[Jodi exhaling]
Surprised you couldn't
sense the lie.
I don't even remember you.
[vampire quivering]
I don't care about the
people watching me.
- Not true.
- It's their needs.
Get off on their energy flowing
inside of me, all right?
That's what you sense.
[Jodi gasps]
- You use men.
- You're hurting me.
- We're the same.
We both live off the
energy of other people,
and we can't change who we are.
- You're just mad
because you were fooled.
I didn't mean to do it.
I didn't even know
you were there.
[mysterious music]
[Jodi squeals]
- I'm sorry.
- Oh god.
[Jodi coughs]
Oh.
- Let's have a drink.
- When I was 14, my
mother's boyfriend raped me.
I told her.
Of course, he said
it never happened.
Mm.
Got anything to eat?
So the next time he
came into my room,
I nearly cut his twinkie off.
Figured that ought to
prove my point. [giggles]
Of course, he said that I
attacked him though, you know?
Anyways, then I
found myself like,
in this like really
mental funny farm
with all these way-out people.
All you had to do is turn it on.
Anyways, the whole place smelled
like dirty socks and piss.
It was really disgusting.
The guards, oh
excuse me, the aides,
they had a field day cause
I was the only thing there
under 160 pounds
and 400 years old.
No offense.
Where's the key?
Anyways, you learn
how to turn off,
function on automatic, and
cry when no one's looking.
There was this ventilation
hole in the bathroom.
I thought if I starved myself
I could squeeze on through.
It only lasted about a week.
See, I told you, I
have no willpower.
Anyways, I ended up making
a lot of copper enameling.
Still got some nice ash
trays in my apartment.
Think fast.
You got a lady vampire?
How old are you?
Let me guess.
300.
A thousand.
And you're still a virgin.
- I'm an outcast!
- You wanna hurt me again?
Come on, chicken.
Is this what you want?
- No.
The way I look is
evolutionary camouflage.
I appear to be human so
you won't believe in me.
I'm not like you.
- [Jodi] Oh god.
[smooth jazz music]
[Jodi gasping]
- You fraud.
"Evolutionary camouflage."
And watch pornos
of cows fucking.
I'm just food to you, right.
- You'll never understand the
emptiness of living forever.
[clock chiming]
- It's the first time I
missed my son's birthday.
- Today?
- Yesterday.
I blew it.
[Jodi sighs]
- No, you didn't.
- What do you mean?
- The night belongs to
the day it followed.
See?
The next day starts at
five in the morning.
Look, if you stay up
late Saturday night,
fall asleep at two
a.m., you don't say
you went to bed
early Sunday morning,
you say you went to bed
very late Saturday night.
- So what?
- So tonight's still yesterday.
It's still your son's birthday.
Put your jacket
on, I'll get mine.
- Why?
- Where does he live?
- Don't do this to me.
- No, I can give this to
you if you'll just let me.
[upbeat music]
[man talking
indistinctly on radio]
- You must be married.
Usually about this time of
night, you only get the hoes.
You partying?
I mean, want some shit?
Pretty ritzy neighborhood.
What the hell?
- Just drive.
Bulletproof.
[tense music]
[mysterious music]
- Wait.
This is it?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
- That one.
- Come here, come here.
Come here.
Hold on, hold on.
Don't let go
[mysterious music]
[Jodi laughs]
Let go of my hand.
Look, I only got two,
I need one of 'em
to open the damn window, now
let go or I'm gonna drop you,
and your son and I
can have a nice talk.
- Daniel.
It's me, Mommy.
Don't you remember?
- Mommy.
- I missed you so much.
I love you so much.
I want you to always remember
whenever you think of me.
Always know how much
I love you, okay?
Know something else?
This isn't a dream.
- Mommy, you're weird.
I love you, Mommy.
- Oh, I love you too, Daniel.
[tense music]
- Jodi.
- [Jodi] Happy birthday.
- [Man] Daniel?
You all right?
[door closes]
- Santa Monica Pier, please.
- Very bad neighborhood
this time of night.
Okay.
- Why?
- I owe you one.
[keys jangling]
Hey, does that blanket
got crabs or anything?
- Oh, lady, please,
not my blankie.
All right, but try not to...
Nevermind.
[Jodi laughing]
- Haven't you ever been
to the beach before?
- I didn't want to, not
without the sunlight.
I can't find my balance.
- Now you know how I
feel most of the time.
[cab driver exhales]
Wait here.
I'll be right back.
- Where you going?
- Well, if they
haven't fixed it yet,
it's something I used
to do when I was a kid,
to the neckers.
- Your fastest movement
is like slow motion to me.
I can hear your
heartbeat a block away.
- You gave me my son, now
I'm gonna give you yours.
Damn.
[tense music]
[vampire groaning]
- Oh no.
- This is the sun.
You aren't not supposed
to be on the sand yet.
Take off your clothes.
Trust me.
- Do I leave on my underwear?
- Would I take you to a nude
beach your first time out?
Kinky.
Now lay down and
close your eyes.
Will you face the sun?
- Hmm?
- Okay.
Now pretend it's almost
noon and you feel
the warm salt air
all over your body.
You smell something
coconuty and you realize
it's the sun tan
lotion in the wind.
Million different radios
are all playing at once.
"California Dreaming," some
Bach, a little rap, Miles Davis.
Cool spray of water hits your
body, and it surprises you.
It feels real good 'cause it
just cooled you right off.
A cry of gulls.
They just sound
like another song.
And you're getting
really thirsty.
Someone hands you a cold
beer, tastes real good.
Tingles all the way down.
Little kids with ice cream cones
melting all over their hands.
Sand sticking to their bodies
where the ice cream dripped.
The mothers are,
they're trying to
clean off their kids
in the ocean waves.
Above all is the sun.
Sparkle of it hitting the water.
Holding you.
Warming you.
Healing you.
- Thank you.
- You're right.
I am full of shit.
I didn't want him.
Couldn't handle him.
All this talk about my child
and being a mother and stuff.
Even when I had him, did
I take 'em up to Canada?
No, I ended up in Ventura.
Took them exactly
three weeks to find me.
I wanted them to.
I knew they would.
Just needed to tell
myself that I'd tried.
I don't wanna die.
I wish I could start over.
[vehicle approaching]
[man talking
indistinctly on radio]
- All right, who's been
messing around with the light?
- I think you gave me whiplash.
- Where to, boss?
- Paradise Cafe.
- Why?
- One more dance for me.
- Wait here.
[tense music]
[upbeat music]
- No!
[Jodi shouts]
[table crashing]
[solemn music]
- Make love to me.
You have to.
You have to.
- Bye.
[glass shatters]
- You will drive home,
destroy tonight's logs,
sleep, and when you
awaken, you will remember
nothing about me,
her, this house.
You will remember a
rich man who forgot
his wallet in your car.
You threw it in the trash
after removing the money.
Understand?
- What happened to my blankie?
- You ate it.
[cab driver coughing]
Drive.
- You could've done that to me.
- I wanted tonight
to be your choice.
- Some choice.
[door closes]
[clock chiming and ticking]
- It's not like your mythology.
My bite can't turn
you into what I am,
or the Earth would be
overrun by my kind.
- What are you talking about?
- I can give you something.
[mysterious music]
This is too much for
me when I haven't fed.
[tense music]
I want you to know.
[Jodi grunting]
[Jodi whimpering]
No!
[mysterious music]
It's temporary, like a drug.
It will fade in a few minutes.
But you'll know what I am.
Forgive me.
- I wanna go outside.
What's the matter?
You afraid of me now?
[mysterious music]
[birds chirping]
[tense music]
- You want me to take
him, let you live?
- Run!
[clock chiming and ticking]
[door closes]
- I need you now.
- [Jodi] I can't!
- Don't fight me.
Your power's fading.
[Jodi shouting]
[glass shatters]
[suspenseful music]
[tense music]
[vampire shouting]
[Jodi grunts]
- Oh!
Oh!
[vampire groaning]
[vampire groaning]
[Jodi shouting]
Oh...
Oh.
- You can't escape.
Every moment leaves
you more human.
- [Jodi] Thank God!
[Jodi grunting]
[vampire groans]
[tense music]
Oh, oh.
Oh...
[Jodi whimpering]
[Jodi shouting]
[shutters clicking]
[camera clicks]
[vampire shouts]
Oh!
Oh, god.
[tense music]
[Jodi groaning]
Please don't come in!
Please don't come in!
No.
- It is beautiful.
[solemn music]
♪ I was captured by the
music from the start ♪
♪ Driven by the
pulsing of your heart ♪
♪ We were prisoners
of our needs ♪
♪ Trapped by what we see
♪ We could die 100
times but we can ♪
♪ Never leave
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ But tonight
♪ I dance
♪ With you
♪ Oh
♪ Could there be some
truth inside your lies ♪
♪ Now I see the distant
danger in your eyes ♪
♪ Is it me or is it you
♪ Who hunts and who hurts who
♪ And who will be the first
to pull the other through ♪
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ But tonight
♪ I dance with you
♪ The dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on
♪ Through the dark
♪ Before
♪ The dawn
♪ Oh, the dance
♪ Goes on
♪ And on