A vampire couple stands in an average kitchen. He checks in the refrigerator for a drink as she speaks on the phone to a customer service representative at the Phone Company. They’re having problems with their Internet. It’s very slow. Everything takes too long. And remember she’s immortal, so she would know.

As she tries to explain the situation, her patience slowly ebbs away and she snaps at her husband. Then – in a final indignity – she’s placed on hold. Now very angry, she threatens to fly over there and bite that customer service guy. But her husband reminds her that nobody wants an immortal phone company representative. She agrees, although she doesn’t look completely convinced.

What’s her alternative to evil internet service? Spectrum Internet. It’s the fastest. Phone Company DSL Bad. Spectrum Good.

The trick here was to take these tropey, 30’s and 40’s movie monsters and dimensionalize them for the modern world. So we gave them every day problems and tried to play the real believable emotions under the surface of the scenes for each of them. We tried to update the characters through modern takes on their make up and wardrobe, accenting each character with some touches that evoked the cliche but also kept a foot in the modern world.