George Hamilton

Susan Saint James

Richard Benjamin

Dick Shawn

Arte Johnson

Sherman Hemsley

Isabel Sanford

Barry Gordon

Ronnie Schell

Stanley Brock

Bryan O'Byrne

Michael Pataki

Hazel Shermet

Danny Dayton

Robert Ellenstein

David Ketchum

Lidia Kristen

Eric Laneuville

Susan Tolsky

Paul Barselou

Jacque Lynn Colton

Charlie Dell

John Dennis

Kay Dingle

David Landsberg

Ralph Manza

Debbie Javor

Jerold Pearson

Lavelle Roby

Merrie Lynn Ross

Basil Hoffman

Jimmy Williams

Michael McLean

Stan Dragoti

Robert Kaufman

Richard Lee Colbert

Mark Gindes

Bram Stoker

Joel Freeman

Melvin Simon

Harold Vanarnum

Charles Bernstein

Edward Rosson

Mort Fallick

Allan Jacobs

Whitey Hughes

Romance

Comedy

Horror

Love at First Bite

Melvin Simon Productions

American International Pictures

United States of America

English

Italiano

_**Dracula-in-the-modern-day parody with George Hamilton**_

The Communist regime in Romania forces Dracula from his castle (George Hamilton), so he and Renfield (Arte Johnson) fly to New York City to meet a model who has caught the Count’s eye (Susan Saint James). Richard Benjamin plays her therapist and Dick Shawn an officer that tries to help solve the vampire happenings.

“Love at First Bite” (1979) spoofs Dracula flicks and was AIP’s most successful film up to that point (an honor that would only last three months, after which “The Amityville Horror” took the crown). It surged Hamilton’s career and remains his most profitable movie. 

If you like other classic monster satires, such as “The Vampire Happening” (1971) and “Young Frankenstein” (1974), you should appreciate this one. It puts Dracula in the modern day Big City and milks it for fun. While it’s rarely laugh-out-loud funny, it’s consistently amusing (or eye-rolling) in a quiet smirks kind of way. There are several cameos of celebs that were popular at the time.

Although it has been accused of being “racist,” it pokes fun of people across the board, whatever their skin color or socioeconomic status. For instance, the beginning makes fun of Romanian Communists followed by superstitious rural villagers (all white people).

The film runs 1 hour, 36 minutes, and was shot in Manhattan and The Langham Apartments, Los Angeles.

GRADE: B-

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