Love at First Bite
by Stan Dragoti
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Actor: Arte Johnson, Dick Shawn, George Hamilton, Richard Benjamin, Susan Saint JamesDirector: Stan Dragoti
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Producer: George Hamilton
Producer: Harold Vanarnum
Producer: Joel Freeman
Producer: Melvin Simon
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Mark Gindes
Writer: Robert Kaufman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Love at First Bite
Movie Review: Fangs for the Memories
Summary: 5 Stars
George Hamilton is the last of the great Draculas. I didn't care for the Frank Langela remake, or the Klaus Kinsky remake of Nosferatu Eine Symphone des Grauens as Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht. It's gotten steadily worse with Gary Oldman and Mark Warren as Dracula and William DaFoe as Max Schreck (a very real actor from the Max Reinhardt troupe that produced Conrad Veidt and Paul Weggener. Schreck's wife played Hutter's nurse in the hospital scene.)
But back to Hamilton, he played a matinee era Dracula. He represented a dead period of romance, and the grand gesture in a jaded age. The now classic scene of Dracula dancing in a disco, technically it looked more like a tango, bringing it back to the era of the Deane/Balderston play and Lugosi movie, which was the 1920's through the early 30's. Jill St. John from certain angles reminded me of Greta Schröder in Nosferatu Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922).
Hamilton's Dracula always maintained his dignity even while in his underpants, and Renfield massaging him. When he seduces the Cindy Sondheim character in the disco, in a worldess scene, he looks cold and imperious and she just smiles. What would've been a shock ending in any other movie was Dracula rescuing the heroine from a world of quick anonymous sex, drugs, therapy and jealous-neurotic relationships. Dracula looks downright misty eyed when he says, "In a world without romance, I'd rather be dead."
Shades of the actor Hamilton could've been
I'd love to see Timothy Dalton in the part one day.
Summary of Love at First Bite
Dracula has never been so funny and dashing - to say nothing of being an awesome disco dancer - as in this "delightful movie with a bang-up cast" (The New York Times) led by the epitome of suave, George Hamilton, and featuring first-rate performances from Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Arte Johnson, Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford! Evicted from Transylvania, Dracula (Hamilton) goes to New York to make Cindy (Saint James), a model with an old soul, his eternal bride. To his delight, she quickly falls for his necking style. But when her would-be boyfriend (Benjamin), a descendant of the vampire-killing Van Helsings, meets his romantic rival, he's determined to put a stake in the count's plans!Similar DVD Movies
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