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Love at First Bite
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Decades before anyone even conceived of the first sparkly vampire, we had a Disco Dracula in this 1979 comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti and starring George Hamilton as the tannest Count Dracula ever to appear on screen.After getting evicted from his ancestral home by the Communist Romanian government, the world-weary Count travels with his bug-eating assistant Renfield (Arte Johnson) to New York City to find his soulmate, currently reincarnated as flaky fashion model Cindy Sondheim (Susan Saint James). While trying to win her heart, Drac must fend off bumbling assassination attempts from Jeffery Rosenberg (Richard Benjamin), Cindy's long-suffering therapist and quasi-boyfriend, who happens to be "Fritz" Van Helsing's grandson. Assisting Rosenberg is skeptical NYPD detective Lt. Ferguson (Dick Shawn).Much, much better than it probably sounds, this film provided the role of a lifetime for Hamilton, while the rest of the cast turn in excellent performances as well.Hamilton has tried to get a sequel made on numerous occasions, but the concept remains deep in Development Hell. | |
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Noisy Shut-Up | |
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Noisy Shut-Up: As the movie begins, Dracula is playing the piano while wolves are howling outside his castle. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: The Jeffersons stars Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley turn up as a judge and a preacher respectively, albeit in separate scenes. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Rosenberg tries to shoot Dracula with a silver bullet. | |
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Vampire Dance | |
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Vampire Dance: He likes the nightlife. | |
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Russian Reversal | |
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Russian Reversal: | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Dracula's general attitude towards life. | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment | |
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Romanticism Versus Enlightenment: The central conflict of the story. It's first represented by the Count (Romanticism) being driven from his home by the government (Enlightenment). After that, Van Helsing represents Enlightenment. Since this movie sides with Romanticism, it shows Enlightenment as dry, dull, and passionless. | |
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Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill... | |
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Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: "Give me my fashion magazine." | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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The Renfield | |
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The Renfield: Renfield, Dracula's faithful assistant. Being human, he can perform tasks that must be done during the daylight hours, as sunlight is deadly to vampires. | |
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Hypnotic Eyes | |
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Hypnotic Eyes: In a comedic subversion, Dracula only uses these on men, even when faced with women who are being aggressively unhelpful. | |
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Ãœberwald | |
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Überwald: ... for about 10 minutes. | |
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Urine Trouble | |
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Urine Trouble: Dracula appears at Cindy's photoshoot, a guard stops Dracula at the gate, Dracula changes into Doberman and raises his leg on the guard... | |
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Cardiovascular Love | |
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Cardiovascular Love: The Heart Symbol "O" in the "Love" of the title. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Rosenberg knows how to pick locks using a credit card. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: "It's folks like you that give this neighborhood a bad name!" | |
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Stocking Filler | |
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Stocking Filler: Cindy fiddles with her garter during a therapy session with Rosenberg, to his great distraction. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: Rosenberg's rants about a vampire on the loose get him beaten up in an elevator, tied to an ambulance's gurney, and finally locked up in a padded cell in a straight jacket. | |
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Pocket Protector | |
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Pocket Protector: A cigarette case Renfield gave Dracula for his 650th birthday saved him from getting staked by the original Van Helsing. | |
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Badass Cape | |
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Badass Cape: Lampshaded at the end, when Rosenberg and the detective agree to take turns wearing it to impress women. | |
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Fake Nationality | |
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Fake Nationality: An in-universe example: Rosenberg, the psychiatrist, adapted that name "for professional reasons." | |
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Black Cloak | |
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Black Cloak: As noted, considered a selling point with the ladies. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: The only corpse in sight, and he dies before the movie even starts. He really shouldn't have drunk the water. | |
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Re-Release Soundtrack | |
| Love at First Bite / int_9952b10b | comment |
Re-Release Soundtrack: The scene where Dracula and Cindy dance was initially set to the highly-appropriate Alicia Bridges song "I Love The Nightlife," but a generic disco tune called "The Man That I Love" replaced it in home-video releases. The original song was restored for the twin-pack DVD paired with Once Bitten. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: To turn Cindy into a vampire, Dracula must bite her three times. | |
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Eaten Alive | |
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Eaten Alive: Lampshaded by Renfield on the flight to New York. | |
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Wrong Insult Offence | |
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Wrong Insult Offence: Dracula takes offense to being called "honky"... because he isn't Hungarian. | |
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Jive Turkey | |
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Jive Turkey: At least one black character uses slang that he thinks is hip and funny. | |
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We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum | |
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We Have Forgotten the Phlebotinum: Rosenberg tries to confront Dracula by whipping out a cross—only he accidentally pulls out a Star of David instead. | |
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Kiss of the Vampire | |
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Kiss of the Vampire: Cindy being bitten by Dracula seems to be (based on the sounds she's making) in the throes of, if not an orgasm, than something just about as good. The scene just afterward builds upon the implication that it was the equivalent of good sex. | |
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Big Blackout | |
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Big Blackout: New York City suffers one of these during the climax. | |
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Present Day | |
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Present Day: At time of release, this was a comedy about Dracula dealing with the modern world. This is completely enforced thanks to the disco dancing, Jive Turkey supporting characters, Dirty Commies as Romanian government flacks, cheerfully-unprotected casual sex, and Roots (1977) references. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Dracula quotes a line from the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday: Multiple Roots references thoroughly date this piece. "Didn't he used to be on Fantasy Island?" | |
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Fascinating Eyebrow | |
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Fascinating Eyebrow: After they dance together, Cindy grins at Dracula, and he responds with one of these. | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": Drac's coffin accidentally gets switched with that of a deceased black man. The resulting funeral is memorable. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: A mob gathers to harass Dracula as he departs his castle, although they don't do anything more than yell at him. | |
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The Taxi | |
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The Taxi... Oh, what a wild ride! | |
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Beetle Maniac | |
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Beetle Maniac: Renfield lives on a diet of insects. | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Intoxication Ensues: Right after biting a wino. | |
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Vampire Fiction | |
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Vampire Fiction | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine | |
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I Do Not Drink Wine: "...and I do not smoke shit." | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Rosenberg can never get his vampire lore straight. | |
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