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After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.
LeeAnne Locken
- Candy Andrews
- (as Lee Anne Locken)
Kathy Bates
- Helen Blake
- (as Kathy D. Bates)
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- TriviaFannie Flagg, who plays Jeremy's mother, is also the author of the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Kathy Bates, who plays Darla's mother, starred as one of the main characters in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), the movie adaption of that novel.
- GoofsModoc recommends that Jeremy should drink pig's blood, B- specifically. Swine do not have type B blood, only A and O.
- Quotes
Jeremy Capello: [after ordering lots of meat and then a pint of pig's blood] Uh.. how much for just the blood...?
Butcher: [grinning] First time, eh, kid?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Movie Nights: Vampire's Kiss (2016)
- SoundtracksHeartbeat Getting Stronger
Written by Nicholas Tremulis and Roger Reupert
Performed by Nicholas Tremulis
© 1985 Black Lion Music/Bad Dad's Music
Courtesy of Island Records
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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!
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!
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- Gross US & Canada
- $174,380
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $174,380
- May 8, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $174,380
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