Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Scott LeBrun Jeremy Capello (Robert Sean Leonard) has more problems than the Typical Teenager. After being seduced by mystery lady Nora (Cecilia Peck), he finds out that she's a vampire, and now he's one too. A wise old blood sucker named Modoc (Rene Auberjonois) appears to help him make the adjustment to his new life, while a stubborn vampire hunter, McCarthy (David Warner) and his bumbling assistant (Paul Willson) repeatedly pop up, determined to kill Jeremy's friend Ralph (Evan Mirand), whom they've assumed to be the newly minted night crawler. "My Best Friend is a Vampire" is absolutely no great shakes, with no real comedy fireworks, but it's still quite likable and fairly entertaining, with some funny moments. Among them is seeing Jeremy getting used to his new attributes - the craving for raw meat, keeping his fridge well stocked with pig's blood, realizing he no longer casts a reflection in mirrors, and all while attempting to get a relationship with Darla Blake (Cheryl Pollak) going. It's also a gas to watch the amusing Warner, eight years after playing a hunter / killer of vampire bats in "Nightwing", and Willson, whom you may recognize as one of the barflies on 'Cheers', fumble their way through their mission. The supporting cast is quite strong in general, with the always solid Auberjonois a joy to watch; Fannie Flagg and Kenneth Kimmins are the perplexed parents, Kathy Bates has a small role as Darla's mother, and Amelia Kinkade a.k.a. Angela from "Night of the Demons" makes a brief appearance as a brunette dancer in the punk bar. A lively pop / rock soundtrack adds to the enjoyment, as do some decent vehicle chases. It's also nice to see a vampire comedy where the hunter is actually the antagonist and the creatures of the night are the good guys; this leads to a nicely ironic resolution. While there's nothing here that's that memorable, it's all pleasant enough and easy to take. Leonard and Pollak are appealing in the leads. Directed by Jimmy Huston, who'd also done the 1981 slasher film "Final Exam". Six out of 10.

lost-in-limbo Jeremy Capello is a teenager who has dreams about the gawky Darla Blake. A girl who doesn't think that highly of him, but there's also a beautiful Barbie-like cheerleader named Candy who's actually keen on him. So his best friend Ralph suggests that he should seek out someone unknown for a one-night stand to get this get his mind thinking straight. While, doing his job he encounters the mysterious Nora, who invites him over for the night. So Jeremy with little help from Ralph meets her, only to be bitten by her and a crazed loon (possibly the husband) break in. The day after Jeremy goes through some minor changes and finds out that Nora's place has been burnt down. Through the course he learns that these are vampire hunters after them, but they seem to think that Ralph is the vampire.The mid-to-late 80s was a time for vampire films (and even teenage monster themes too). This pleasant little romp is the standard mould of these monster comedies (maybe one of the lesser ones), but surprisingly it makes for a decently breezy time-waster if you're looking for a little 1980s nostalgia in your viewing. It has some generally amusing moments, especially from Rene Auberjonois' sneaky vampire mentor role as Modoc and you can see David Warner is having a ball in his ripe crack-ball role of Prof. Leopold McCarthy, vampire hunter.Most of the performances are reasonably charming. Robert Sean Leonard ("Dead Poet's Society" and who would probably be best known for the recent TV series "House") is delightfully good as Jeremy and Evan Mirand turns in a joyful performance as the loutish Ralph. A fetching Cheryl Pollack is fair as the geeky Darla. Fannie Flagg and Kenneth Kimmins trump in with marvellously tuneful performances as Jeremy's overly worried parents. Paul Wilson makes solid of Prof. Leonard's bumbling assistant Grimsdyke. Let me not forget the minor role of the seductively alluring Cecilia Peck (Gregory Pecks' daughter) as Nora. Oh and look out for a slender Kathy Bates. The variable cast had a witty script to play along with and most of it was quite satisfying when it came to the punch.Director Jimmy Huston does a competent job without doing anything overtly special, but he gets a lot spirit and odd developments running through some humorous situations. It can get corny in parts and extremely sappy when it comes to its closing moral. A trailblazing 80s pop soundtrack (notably Blondie and Oingo Boingo) features strongly in the film's make-up with the utterly hip and catchy title tune, "The future's so bright (I've got to wear shades)" by the TIMBUK 3. The stereotypically lucid premise (which shares similarities with the Jim Carrey vampire flick, "Once Bitten") is routine and derivative, but still it has some nice touches and diverting trivia on the vampire mythology. None of this should sideswipe your entertainment of it, unless you're looking for something with more aggression amongst its bite. I guess you'll know if you're going to like it after the first 15 minutes.It might be far from revolutionary (just look at the title and you should know what to expect), but there's just something endearing about this campy lightweight piece.

monkey-man Before i watched this movie on a really old video tape i thought that this movie would be a bit crap and this movie was made in 1988 so i thought that it would be so cheesy but then i watched it and it turned out to be quiet good and not that cheesy.This movie is not that funny but i laughed a few times when i watched this movie.The plot for this movie is a simple plot about how a teenage boy got bitten bye a woman vampire and he starts to turn into a vampire meanwhile 2 vampire hunters think his friend is a vampire so they are trying to kill him and i like the plot for this movie.Over all if u are a teenager i think u will like this movie and my rating for this movie is six out of 10.

Pepper Anne My Best Friend is a Vampire follows a long line of fun films about supernatural occurences disrupting an already awkward period of teenage development just as it did in My Mom's a Werewolf (teenager's mother turns into a werewolf), My Boyfriend's Back (girlfriend's dead boyfriend rises from the grave), and I Was a Teenaged Zombie (teenager's friends turns zombie to fight zombie drug dealer), and the list goes on. This was surprisingly a very entertaining film about a young boy who, upon almost losing his virginity to a strange older woman is a strange old house, is given the bite that turns him into a vampire. Now a professor and his idiot assistant, vampire hunters, want to kill the vampire that is on the loose. The only problem is, they've mistaken his friend as their undead target.The funniest parts of the movie involve a lot of great slapstick humor between Ralph, the vampire's best friend, and the vampire hunters who seem to follow him at every turn, although he can't figure out why. Even more amusing is the vampire teenager learning to cope with being a vampire thanks to the help of an older man, an English vampire mentor. With the help of dark glasses and a large stock of pigs blood, maybe life as a teenaged vampire won't be all that bad. It just makes shaving a little hard when you can't get your reflection in the bathroom mirror. And even more amusing than that is the misconception that the vampire's parents have about him. I would've guessed that they would have thought their little Johnny was on dope, but their mistake is actually much funnier. Plus, you have a pretty good soundtrack to boot with the dominating song being Timbuk 3's "The Future's So Bright."If this is your forte of films, the 80s horror/comedies, you should likely enjoy this one. It doesn't bite!