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May 1988 (USA) morePlot:
Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire... more | full synopsisNewsDesk:
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The Vampire Hunting Business Bites! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Sean Leonard | ... | Jeremy Capello | |
| LeeAnne Locken | ... | Candy Andrews | |
| Cheryl Pollak | ... | Darla Blake | |
| Cecilia Peck | ... | Nora | |
| Fannie Flagg | ... | Mrs. Capello | |
| Kenneth Kimmins | ... | Mr. Capello | |
| Evan Mirand | ... | Ralph | |
| Michelle La Vigne | ... | Flo | |
| Harvey Christiansen | ... | George | |
| David Warner | ... | Prof. Leopold McCarthy | |
| Paul Willson | ... | Grimsdyke | |
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | Modoc | |
| Erica Zeitlin | ... | Gloria | |
| Gary Chason | ... | Drivers Ed Instructor | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Helen Blake (as Kathy D. Bates) |
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Houston, Texas, USAFun Stuff
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The license plate on Ralph's car reads "BVR HUNT" moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Jeremy and Darla are leaving her house and walking to the car for their first date, Jeremy's reflection is clearly visible on the hood of the car. moreSoundtrack:
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My Best Friend is a Vampire follows a long line of fun films about supernatural occurences disrupting an already awkward period of teenage development just as it did in My Mom's a Werewolf (teenager's mother turns into a werewolf), My Boyfriend's Back (girlfriend's dead boyfriend rises from the grave), and I Was a Teenaged Zombie (teenager's friends turns zombie to fight zombie drug dealer), and the list goes on.
This was surprisingly a very entertaining film about a young boy who, upon almost losing his virginity to a strange older woman is a strange old house, is given the bite that turns him into a vampire. Now a professor and his idiot assistant, vampire hunters, want to kill the vampire that is on the loose. The only problem is, they've mistaken his friend as their undead target.
The funniest parts of the movie involve a lot of great slapstick humor between Ralph, the vampire's best friend, and the vampire hunters who seem to follow him at every turn, although he can't figure out why. Even more amusing is the vampire teenager learning to cope with being a vampire thanks to the help of an older man, an English vampire mentor. With the help of dark glasses and a large stock of pigs blood, maybe life as a teenaged vampire won't be all that bad. It just makes shaving a little hard when you can't get your reflection in the bathroom mirror. And even more amusing than that is the misconception that the vampire's parents have about him. I would've guessed that they would have thought their little Johnny was on dope, but their mistake is actually much funnier.
Plus, you have a pretty good soundtrack to boot with the dominating song being Timbuk 3's "The Future's So Bright."
If this is your forte of films, the 80s horror/comedies, you should likely enjoy this one. It doesn't bite!