Behind the scenes of What We Do in the Shadows

The A.V. Club

"I figured that the mansion would look smaller in person, but I wasn’t expecting the neighbors," Katie Rife writes of her visit to the FX mockumentary's Toronto set earlier this year. "Much like the fictional vampires whose comedic adventures have brought us all here today, the cast and crew of What We Do In The Shadows are doing some very strange things right in the middle of what otherwise appears to be a normal residential area. Most of the show’s sets are housed indoors, but the vampires’ yard is actually built on a patch of grass in front of this complex of sound stages and production offices, no more than 50 feet from the modest brick bungalows that sit catercorner to the lot. One imagines an elderly resident peeking out from behind their lace curtains, seeing a longhaired man in a fur-lined cape drowning Haley Joel Osment in a shallow pond, and sighing, 'there goes the neighborhood.'"