Arte Johnson also successfully hams it up as the Count’s faithful assistant in a comic send-up of Dwight Frye’s role in Dracula. Overall though there’s more misses than hits, which includes the ill-advised flying bat special effects that comes off looking so hokey that it almost demotes this to a B-movie level. The film does have a lot of famous cameos including the two stars of ‘The Jeffersons’ TV-show who appear separately in bit parts. The whole thing would’ve worked better had it focused exclusively on Saint James and Hamilton and analyzed their attempts to make their offbeat relationship work, which could’ve put a fresh spin on the vampire theme instead of devolving it into Jeffrey’s dumb attempts at trying to destroy the Count by using all the cliched methods like garlic, mirrors, etc., which quickly becomes stale and cartoonish. Benjamin has played this obnoxious jerk-type one time too often and although he is quite good at it, it was still getting to be old shtick and it’s easy to see why he quit acting soon after and went into directing. Unfortunately the film falls flat when it introduces the Jeffrey character. The film's tagline is: 'Your favorite pain in the neck is about to bite your funny bone' Director. The original music score was composed by Charles Bernstein. This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle.
![love at first bite 1979 love at first bite 1979](https://townsquare.media/site/204/files/2020/11/john-schneider-country-music-hits.jpg)
It stars George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin and Arte Johnson. I also liked how her messy apartment nicely reflected her screwed-up life and personality. Love at First Bite is a 1979 horror comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti and written by Robert Kaufman, using characters originally created by Bram Stoker. Normally having a film character invite a stranger, in this case the Count, who she has just met at a club back to her place would be considered insane, but here it works as a nice satire on the one-night-stand fad of the 70’s and the on-going conversation that the two have as they proceed to make-out is by far the funniest bit in the film. Saint James on-the-other-hand seemed too old for her role as she was already in her mid-30’s, but she manages to pull it off surprisingly well. His foray into comedy was a last ditch effort to save his floundering career and the gamble paid off as he’s quite funny and almost like a natural.
![love at first bite 1979 love at first bite 1979](https://madeinatlantis.com/greatmovies/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/love-at-first-bite-1979-768x494.jpg)
LOVE AT FIRST BITE 1979 MOVIE
Her boyfriend Jeffrey (Richard Benjamin) who also acts as her psychiatrist, is not pleased by this and becomes obsessed with destroying the count by using all the old vampire killing methods, but the count always stays one step ahead of him, which is enough to send Jeffrey to the mental hospital.Īlthough this film isn’t well remembered it was a big hit when it came out and a comeback movie of sorts for Hamilton whose dramatic leading man roles during the 60’s and early 70’s had completely dried-up by this time. She then married Beard, and they divorced as well.4-Word Review: Dracula dates fashion model.Īfter being kicked out of his castle by the Romanian government Count Dracula (George Hamilton) moves to New York City where he starts up a relationship with the beautiful, but troubled fashion model Cindy (Susan Saint James). “I guess you could say I was not strong enough to take the pain,” he said in a 1979 People magazine story about his ordeal. He spent eight weeks in jail before a judge released him and suspended his 21-month sentence.ĭragoti said he had been driven to drugs by overwork and by an affair that Tiegs was having with photographer Peter Beard.
![love at first bite 1979 love at first bite 1979](https://www.suggestingmovie.com/Movies/1923-lssi1.jpg)
On the way to the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Dragoti was caught trying to smuggle 21 grams of cocaine past authorities at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. His second wife was Tiegs, whom he married in 1970. Later, the two devised the famous ”I Love New York” ad campaign in the 1970s to bolster tourism in the state. 4, 1932, Dragoti worked as a painter and then at the advertising agencies Young & Rubicam and Mary Wells Lawrence at the latter, he partnered with Charlie Moss, and they combined on the screenplay for Dirty Little Billy.
![love at first bite 1979 love at first bite 1979](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/af/a3/14/afa314bcc6f9f70aa5912c976004172f--george-hamilton-first-bite.jpg)
Cheryl Tiegs Recalls 'The Brown Bunny's' Infamous Sex Scene: "I Wish He Hadn't Included That"īorn in Manhattan on Oct. Financial analysis of Love at First Bite (1979) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.