Fridge Brilliance
- We discover early on that the recent murder victims AKA the vampire's lunches have been discovered decapitated. This makes sense when you remember that one traditional way of killing a vampire is to sever the head. Dandridge was just ensuring that he wouldn't have a horde of new"born" vampires running around and making trouble for him. It also obscured the true cause of death, puncture wounds to the neck and a loss of blood.
- Jerry eating Apples isn't just his fruit bat tendencies or to get rid of the taste of blood, Apples are considered a kind of natural toothbrush, something that comes in handy when you can't see yourself in a mirror.
- The ending implies that Ed "survived" his staking by Peter. Note that Peter removed the stake from his heart after he apparently died. In some vampire folklore, removing the stake will revive it.
- At the final confrontation, Peter pushes Charlie out of the way, letting the monstrous Jerry attack him. It looked like Peter was just protecting Charlie, but it turns out he's in the perfect spot for the rising sun, and Jerry's too furious to notice. Another sign of Peter's character growth, bravely using himself as bait in a clever little trap set at a moment's notice.
Fridge Horror
- Ed was at Charlie's house near the climax, implicitly to kill Charlie's mother. If she hadn't been working and therefore not home that night, Charlie would have been in for a devastating blow after having defeated Jerry.
- When Charlie gives his Big "NO!" after finding Amy in the throes of transformation, Jerry and Billy are in the basement preparing a new coffin for Amy.note One coffin, just for Amy. There's no sign of one for Ed. Despite his seducing Ed into a willing transformation, Jerry evidently had no intention of keeping Ed around, or even giving him the resources needed for his survival; it's fairly clear that Jerry saw Ed as a disposable tool all along.
- Killing the master vampire leads to all half-vampires going back to normal — that is, all new vampires who have been brought across but have not yet made their first kill. The last shot of the movie makes it clear "Evil" Ed is still around, and still a vampire. That means he must have killed someone pretty much immediately after being turned.
- Perhaps one of the bullies Jerry promised him would no longer be able to beat him up?
Fridge Logic
- When Peter first tried using a crucifix on Jerry, Jerry crushed it and told him off, saying to him, "You have to have faith for this to work on me." If Peter was lacking faith, then how was he able to use a cross on Ed earlier in the film?
- He specified "on ME." The rules seem to be different for fledglings. Ed just wasn't a very powerful vampire.
- And at that point, Peter was dripping with faith.
- Minus having any actual powers, Billy Cole has all of Jerry's strengths and (apparently) only one of his weaknesses. What's stopping him from rebelling against his master?
- Are we even sure that Cole was Jerry's servant? For that matter, do we even know WHAT Cole even was? It could be that they were allies who covered each other's weaknesses. Jerry used his various superpowers to do most of the work, while Cole used his relative lack of weaknesses to do daylight stuff. As to why Cole worked with Jerry: maybe that was why the victims are maimed in ways unrelated to vampirism, such as having their heads missing. Maybe Cole ate them.
- Ghouls aren't loyal to their masters out of desire. The loyalty is enforced by blood.
