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* In StephenKing's ''[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes The Night Flier]]'', the eponymous Night Flier pays a visit to the elderly Sarche couple. The following day, the husband shuts down the airfield and the wife visits the beauty parlor. The husband is found with his head torn off on one end of the trailer. The wife is found, her blood completely drained, in bed; with new lingerie, a peaceful expression, and a copy of ''Literature/TheVampireLestat''.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'' shorts, a vampire breaks into the wrong girl's bedroom. She's 7 instead of 17.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did a parody of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''. Bart and his friends are flying outside Lisa's window, telling her the silly perks of being a vampire. Bart then tells her she has no choice, smashes through, and is about to bite her when Homer walks in and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint warns him about biting his sister]].

* The ''{{Tsukihime}}'' anime inverts the trope. Shiki goes to his sister's bedroom unannounced and catches Akiha sucking Kohaku's blood: the maid effectively being her mistress' breakfast in bed.

* ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'', features "the Window". A girl sees a monster lurking out her window and she's too frightened to do anything. She unfortunately gives it the time to smash its way in, grab her, and bite into her throat. Her screams allow her brothers to save her and chase it off. [[PoliceAreUseless The police pass it off as an escaped lunatic who thinks he's a vampire]]. Months later, the vampire comes clawing at her window again, but she screams at the sight of it and her brothers are able to track and kill it.

* The first chapter of ''VarneyTheVampire'' has the eponymous bloodsucker break into Flora Bannerworth's bedroom. She sees him coming but is paralyzed with fear. He returns another night, but she shoots him.

* Subverted and parodied in "A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank" in ''NightGallery''. A vampire breaks into a woman's room and goes down to suck her blood. At the last second, she wakes up and says "I gave at the office". He apologizes, makes a note in his book, and flies off.

* ''DwarfFortress'' vampires prey on your dwarves this way. When Vampires go on "break" they will hunt for a sleeping dwarf to feed on. Being ''Dwarf Fortress'', [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the players have learned to make use]] of vampires, [[AndIMustScream by sealing it away from any other dwarves]]. An entombed vampire can't feed on sleeping dwarves, won't die aside from ghost-related violence, and is doomed to an eternity of managing work orders or pulling levers.

** ''Dracula'' (1958) / ''Horror of Dracula'', as usual, Dracula attacks Lucy. She is awake in bed, watching as Dracula appears on the balcony and waits for him to come to her.
** ''Dracula Has Risen from the Grave'', Maria is standing at her balcony door when Dracula comes for her and she slowly retreats to her bed
** ''Satanic Rites of Dracula'', Jane was kidnapped by the cult and locked in a bedroom at their hideout. She was terrified by his ominous, unseen approach, but when the door flies open and he enters the room she welcomes him to her bed.

* ''ShadowOfTheVampire'' plays with this. Schrek doesn't attack Greta in her room, it's a movie set, the bedroom from the climax of ''Nosferatu''. Per the arrangement with Murnau, Schrek only receives his payment for playing "himself" in the movie in the scene were Orlok feeds on Ellen.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', of course.

* ''TheLostBoys'': Sam is hauling one of the creepy taxidermy animals into the closet. When he turns around, half-vampire Michael has come in the room by the second story window. After some arguing between the brothers, Star arrives, first yelling up to them from the ground, then suddenly floating by the window.

* In ''TheVampireLovers'', a young woman is asleep in her cottage. She's startled awake by Carmilla stroking her face but soon after is delighted to see her.

** ''Dawnguard'' allows you to Avert the trope, as you can avoid the entire procedure. Using Vampiric Seduction lets you bite awake victims and as a Vampire Lord you can just grab and feed in the middle of combat.

* In StephenKing's ''[[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes The Night Flier]]", the eponymous Night Flier pays a visit to the elderly Sarche couple. The following day, the husband shuts down the airfield and the wife visits the beauty parlor. The husband is found with his head torn off on one end of the trailer. The wife is found, her blood completely drained, in bed; with new lingerie, a peaceful expression, and a copy of ''Literature/TheVampireLestat''.

* In StephenKing's "The Night Flier", the eponymous Night Flier pays a visit to the elderly Sarche couple. The following day, the husband shuts down the airfield and the wife visits the beauty parlor. The husband is found with his head torn off on one end of the trailer. The wife is found, her blood completely drained, in bed; with new lingerie, a peaceful expression, and a copy of ''Literature/TheVampireLestat''.

* In ''Film/CatsEye'', a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent tiny troll]] lurks in the walls of a young DrewBarrymore's bedroom and steals her breath while she sleeps.

** Similar in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', except that it's [[SequelDifficultyDrop much easier]]: While you still have to feed on sleeping victims, and if you're caught doing it you're in deep shit, vampires in this game have a +25% bonus to both stealth and illusion magic, including invisibility, and vampiric feeding is one of a very, very few actions that a PC can perform while invisible that won't break invisibility. Sufficiently sneaky vampires can invisibilify themselves and feed off of a sleeping NPC in a crowded room with no one the wiser.
*** Since Dawnguard, you can avoid the entire procedure. Using Vampiric Seduction lets you bite awake victims, bypassing this trope. And as a Vampire Lord you can just grab and feed in the middle of combat.

* Seen in {{Discworld}}:

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', once you've contracted vampirism, you can only feed on sleeping people. You can find bums sleeping around outside or you break in to homes and hope the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard psychic guards]] don't catch you with your fangs in a neck.
** Similar in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', except that it's [[SequelDifficultyDrop much easier]]: While you still have to feed on sleeping victims, and if you're caught doing it you're in deep shit, vampires in this game have a +25% bonus to both stealth and illusion magic, including invisibility, and vampiric feeding is one of a very, very few actions that a PC can perform while invisible that won't break invisibility. Sufficiently sneaky vampires can invisibilify themselves and feed off of a sleeping NPC in a crowded room with no one the wiser.

** Referenced and subverted at the end of "Wrecked" after Buffy gives in to a night of wild passion with Spike -- to avoid a rerun she's seen in her bedroom, nervously clutching a cross, garlic hanging on all the windows. But Spike doesn't need his VampireInvitation any more — from now on Buffy will come to him.

* In ''TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', once you've contracted vampirism, you can only feed on sleeping people. You can find bums sleeping around outside or you break in to homes and hope the [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard psychic guards]] don't catch you with your fangs in a neck.

While a hallmark of the ClassicalMovieVampire, [[DiscreditedTrope its fallen out of favor in modern times]], as vampires are far too ''hip'' and ''sexy'' to waste time skulking outside windows. Keep this in mind and do '''not''' list every time a vampire attacks somebody outside a bedroom as an [[AvertedTrope Aversion]].

* Done in the first ''CountYorga'' film when Yorga mesmerizes Erica to open the upstairs balcony to let him in and finish feeding on her.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/NinaAndTheCount'' shorts, a vampire breaks into the wrong girl's bedroom. She's 7 instead of 17.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did a parody of ''Bram Stoker's Dracula''. Bart and his friends are flying outside Lisa's window, telling her the silly perks of being a vampire. Bart then tells her she has no choice, smashes through, and is about to bite her when Homer walks in and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint warns him about biting his sister]].

* The original ''{{Dracula}}'' would be the TropeCodifier with a helping hand from PopCulturalOsmosis. Dracula never technically enters Lucy's bedroom. On the first occasion, he hypnotizes her to leave the house and go down to the park. Thereafter, he goes to her bedroom window as a bat and she climbs partway out of it to be drained. When vamping [[spoiler: Mina]], he was able to enter because an inmate of the asylum she was sleeping in gave him leave. .

* ''TheLostBoys'': Sam is hauling one of the creepy taxidermy animals into the closet. When he turns around, half-vampire Michael has come in the room by the second story window. After some arguing between the brothers, Star arrives, first yelling up to them then suddenly floating by the window.
* In ''CatsEye'', a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent tiny troll]] lurks in the walls of a young DrewBarrymore's bedroom and steals her breath while she sleeps.

* In ''[[Anime/YuugenKaisha Phantom Quest Corp]]'', Makiko keeps finding excuses to wander the streets alone at night so Dracula can prey on her. The final time, he goes straight to her bedroom where he hypnotizes her, teleports her into his arms, and escapes to TokyoTower.