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My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987) 5.7
Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year... See full summary » Director:Jimmy HustonWriter:Tab Murphy |
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Candy Andrews
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Darla Blake
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Nora
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Mrs. Capello
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Mr. Capello
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Ralph
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Flo
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George
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Professor McCarthy
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Grimsdyke
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Erica Zeitlin | ... |
Gloria
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Gary Chason | ... |
Drivers Ed Instructor
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Helen Blake
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Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook "vampirism - a guide to an alternative lifestyle", he finds out that blood does not taste as bad as he expected. Of course, he does not bite women, as a good guy he sticks to pig blood which is offered by the local butcher as a special offer for vampires. Trouble rises when a vampire hunter tries to track him down with wooden sticks and silver bullets... Written by Hanno Mueller <mueller@kogs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Plot Keywords:
vampire | teenager | teen angst | boyfriend girlfriend relationship | transformation |Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 May 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
I Was a Teenage Vampire See more »Filming Locations:
Houston, Texas, USABox Office
Gross:
$174,380 (USA)Company Credits
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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!