Love at First Bite

For the Three Stooges film, see Love at First Bite (1950 film).
Not to be confused with Love at First Byte.
Love at First Bite
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStan Dragoti
Screenplay byRobert Kaufman
Story byRobert Kaufman
Mark Gindes
Produced byJoel Freeman
Starring
CinematographyEdward Rosson
Edited byMort Fallick
Allan Jacobs
Music byCharles Bernstein
Production
company
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • April 6, 1979 (1979-04-06)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[1]
Box office$43,900,000[2]

Love at First Bite is a 1979 American comedy horror film directed by Stan Dragoti and written by Robert Kaufman, using characters originally created by Bram Stoker.[3] It stars George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, and Arte Johnson.[3]

Against a chorus of howling wolves as he plays the piano, Dracula's first line in the film is: "Children of the Night, shut up!" When Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist government of Romania ejects the Count from his ancestral home, he and Renfield go in search of the current incarnation of Mina Harker, Dracula's true love. This incarnation is a fashion model who lives in New York City. Comedy ensues when the incurably romantic Count pursues "Mina", but finds himself a fish out of water in the Big Apple during the late 1970s. The original music score was composed by Charles Bernstein. The film's tagline is: "Your favorite pain in the neck is about to bite your funny bone!" An earlier version of the script by director Richard Rush was titled Dracula Sucks Again.[4]

  1. ^ B is for Low Budget and Big Box Office Bucks, So Sam Arkoff is Proud to Be Called Hollywood's King of the B Pictures. Archived 2014-05-23 at the Wayback Machine People Magazine. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  2. ^ "Love at First Bite, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Love At First Bite". catalog.afi.com. American Film Institute. Retrieved 19 June 2021.