My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)

Director:

Jimmy Huston

Writer:

Tab Murphy (writer)

Release Date:

6 May 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Romance

Plot:

Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Teenager | Transformation | Houston Texas | Self Discovery

Cast

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)

Also Known As:

I Was a Teenage Vampire
Teenage Vampire (Philippines: English title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:15 | Australia:PG | Sweden:11 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Company:

Kings Road Entertainment

Trivia:

The license plate on Ralph's car reads "BVR HUNT"

Goofs:

Continuity: Darla's window goes from being closed during the police chase, to being open (with her hand hanging out the door), after the car rolls over.

Quotes:

Ralph: She sucked your what?

Movie Connections:

References "Get Smart" (1965)

Soundtrack:

Same Man I Was Before

The Vampire Hunting Business Bites!

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!