LOVE AT FIRST BITE Enjoyable but flawed vampire comedy – free on YouTube

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‘Your favourite ache within the neck is about to chew your humorous bone!’
Love at First Chew is a 1979 American horror comedy movie directed by Stan Dragoti from a screenplay by Robert Kaufman, utilizing characters initially created by Bram Stoker.

The film stars George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin (Saturday the 14th) and Arte Johnson.

The unique music rating was composed by Charles Bernstein.

Plot:
Rely Dracula is expelled from his fortress by the Communist authorities of Romania, which plans to transform the construction right into a coaching facility for gymnasts (the top coach declares that it’ll embrace Nadia Comăneci). The world-weary Rely travels to New York Metropolis along with his bug-eating manservant, Renfield, and establishes himself in a lodge.

Whereas Dracula learns that America comprises such wonders as blood banks, intercourse golf equipment, and discotheques, he additionally proceeds to endure the final ego-crushing that comes from dwelling within the Large Apple within the late Nineteen Seventies as he romantically pursues flaky style mannequin Cindy Sondheim, whom he has admired from afar and believes to be the present reincarnation of his real love.

Dracula is ineptly pursued in flip by Sondheim’s psychiatrist and quasi-boyfriend Jeffrey Rosenberg. Jeffrey is the grandson of Dracula’s previous nemesis Fritz (sic) van Helsing however modified his title to Rosenberg “for skilled causes”. Rosenberg’s quite a few strategies to fight Dracula – mirrors, garlic, a Star of David (which he makes use of as a substitute of the cross), and hypnosis – are simply averted by the Rely. Rosenberg additionally tries burning Dracula’s coffin with the vampire nonetheless inside however is arrested by lodge safety.

Subsequently, he tries to shoot him with three silver bullets, however Dracula stays unscathed, patiently explaining that this works solely on werewolves. Rosenberg’s more and more erratic actions finally trigger him to be locked up as a lunatic, however as mysterious instances of blood-bank robberies and vampiric assaults start to unfold, NYPD Lieutenant Ferguson begins to consider the psychiatrist’s claims and will get him launched…

” …a rough, pleasant little film with a bang-up solid and no pretensions in any respect […] Typically tackiness works to the movie’s benefit […] When you’re going to indicate a bat on display screen, it would as effectively be a silly-looking stuffed bat suspended from apparent wires. A few of the movie’s ethnic jokes skate by on very skinny ice.” The New York Instances, April thirteenth 1979

“Atrociously directed and stuffed with groan-making jokes, however the solid are having such an excellent time that it’s troublesome to not reply in the same method. See it while you really feel at your silliest.” Time Out journal, 1979

“It’s a enjoyable notion and George Hamilton makes it work. Within the first place, he’s humorous simply to observe […] Director Stan Dragoti retains the chuckles coming, spaced by just a few good guffaws.” Selection, December thirty first 1978

Trailer:

Dracula’s disco strikes clip:

Free on-line on YouTube:

Alternative dialogue:
George Hamilton [Count Dracula]: Shh! Youngsters of the evening, shut up!
Physician Jeff Rosenberg [Richard Benjamin]: “Not humorous, lieutenant. Horrible! Messy! Unspeakable!”

Technical specs:
1 hour 36 minutes
Audio: Mono
Side ratio: 1.85: 1

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