Dracula and Renefield relocate to 70's era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may almost certainly, possibly, may be in love with Cindy too.
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This a comedy movie about Dracula. Most Dracula comedies are very funny. This one is not. If a Dracula movie is not going to be funny then it should at lest be scary. It is not scary. There acting is o.k. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. Abbot and Costello meet Dracula is mush better. I need more lines and I am running out of thing to say. Do not wast your money. Do not wast your time. Do not see this movie. It is a bad movie. This is a pooh pooh movie. You should not watch this movie. It is pooh pooh. Most Dracula movies are great. Dracula (1931) is great. But his one it just pooh pooh. Pooh pooh, pooh pooh.
Another fantastic comedy movie. And another long time favorite comedy-horror film that I enjoy. If you get the humor in horror and in Dracula then you will get this belly-busting comedy movie.I saw this movie years ago as an 8 or 9 year old kid and it was "Love At First Watch" . I also watched it quite a few times during my teen years. To this very day, I will still laugh when I see this movie.I have admit that George Hamilton makes a good-looking Dracula and could have easily taken a serious Dracula role - but I'm glad he did this particular film.If you like is film (Love at First Bite) then you are also sure to love Leslie Nelson in "Dracula: Dead and Loving It". Both movies are so funny that I had tears streaming down my face.9/10
George Hamilton is the only Dracula with style and a tan. Seriously, there is no seriousness in this hip update on the Count that just won't die. Now he lives in New York, after being evicted from his own castle in Transylvania. Inconceivable! And, George Hamilton plays Dracula to the hilt. It would be easy to say that George Hamilton is the whole show, making Dracula a three-dimensional character and relate-able to the viewers, but he is not. Arte Johnson is equally fantastic as his eccentric and offbeat sidekick, Renfield, and his laugh is too much. He can really get into character and the viewer senses he is enjoying himself a lot in his role. Equally great is Richard Benjamin as a psychiatrist who has loved patient Susan Saint James for years and has proposed to her, but she does not love him and has turned him down repeatedly. When she meets Dracula and falls for him and Dracula gives Benjamin a run for his money for her affection, Benjamin goes ballistic. Benjamin is so good at dead-pan delivery, by that I mean he says his unbelievable lines with so much conviction and seriousness, as to really get you to believe him. Susan Saint James is good too, but with three excellent over-the-top performances by Hamilton, Johnson, and Benjamin, she is left in the dust and is kind of boring in comparison to the other much-animated actors. Three great performances like these in a movie like this is rare and they make "Love at First Bite" a must-see for Movie Comedies 101. Cameos by "The Jeffersons" Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford are a hoot, too. But does she really want to be one of the un-dead forever? With George Hamilton, she might begin to live!
This is a wonderfully funny film thanks to clever and irreverent writing, wonderful acting and a clever "fish out of water" treatment of the Dracula story. In particular, Arte Johnson was a standout as the over-the-top freak, Renfield, Richard Benjamin's equally over-the-top retooling of Von Helsing and George Hamilton finally found his film niche as the sexy but somehow hip vampire. When it comes to the writing, there are so many rapid-fire laughs that you can't help but laugh. Sadly, though, a few of the jokes are now considered "politically incorrect", so idiot do-gooders usually excise objectionable portions of the film--such as the bat wondering into the poor Hispanic tenement building, the African-American funeral and the gay bar scene. It's a darn shame that nowadays some on the far left (who USED to preach Free Speech and fought against banning books) now are the same ones who do this "to spare feelings". I would never want to deliberately offend anyone, but only the most joyless and thin-skinned will be strongly offended by this gentle spoof. I just don't get it, but because of this nonsense, I strongly recommend you watch this on videotape, DVD or if it's run on a pay channel like HBO or SHOWTIME. Clever, funny and captivating from hilarious start to hilarious finish.