#Love at first bite 1979 movie
Since this movie sides with Romanticism, it shows Enlightenment as dry, dull, and passionless. After that, Van Helsing represents Enlightenment. It's first represented by the Count (Romanticism) being driven from his home by the government (Enlightenment).
LOVE AT FIRST BITE, directed by Stan Dragoti screenplay by Robert Kaufman director of photography, Edward Rosson edited by Mort Fallick and Allan Jacobs music by Charles Bernstein produced by Joel Freeman executive producers, Robert Kaufman and George Hamilton released by American International Pictures. It contains a few humorous sexual references and some comically colorful language, mostly from the model played by Miss Saint James. They seem witless rather than mean-spirited, but that's not much of an excuse."Love At First Bite" is rated PG ("Parental Guidance Suggested"). If you're going to show a bat on screen, it might as well be a silly-looking stuffed bat suspended from obvious wires.Some of the film's ethnic jokes skate by on very thin ice. Sometimes tackiness works to the film's advantage, however. The timing between sequences is occasionally shaky, though, and it's too bad the concluding car chase, which is supposed to take place in New York, was so evidently filmed in California. New York is not impressed.Stan Dragoti, previously an advertising executive, directs with a lot of bluster. Played hilariously by Richard Benjamin, the psychiatrist embarks upon a one-man campaign to warn New York that a vampire is haunting its discos and hot spots. At this model's apartment, about which she casually remarks "I hate housework, it killed my mother," the refrigerator contains champagne, two dead gardenias and a kitten.Complications ensue, since the model already has a boyfriend, who also happens to be her psychiatrist. Hamilton is so caught up in the fashion-plate aspect of the role and partly because he's supposed to be in love, with a Very Famous Model (played by Susan St. But Dracula isn't interested in frightening people this time, partly because Mr. He doesn't scare anybody any more - except for one man, who sees the vampire in his bat incarnation and is reminded of his first wife. They take up residence at the Plaza Hotel, where Dracula sleeps in his coffin by day and his servant - who feeds on live insects - glumly watches Raid commercials on television.The premise of Robert Kaufman's screenplay, which contains both good jokes and awful jokes but is never slow, is that New York has gotten jaded since Dracula was last heard from. Don't be here." So off he goes to New York, accompanied by his small, faithful servant, played by Arte Johnson. The Rumanian government has designated his castle a training center for young gymnasts, and a delegation warns that "In 48 hours we'll be back with trampolines, parallel bars, swings and Nadia Comaneci. "Love at First Bite" opens today at the National, Loew's Cine and other theaters.Poor Dracula! As the story begins, he is forced to leave his Transylvanian home. Hamilton's knack for comedy has been a well-kept secret until now, but he's certainly funny in "Love at First Bite," a coarse, delightful little movie with a bang-up cast and no pretensions at all. QUITE unexpectedly, George Hamilton's Dracula turns out to be - pardon the expression - a scream.
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