Love At First Bite

This better-than-usual genre spoof places Count Dracula (Hamilton) in modern times. Forced out of his Transylvanian castle by communist bureaucrats who want to turn it into a gymnasium, Hamilton comes to New York City, where he scours the discos looking for victims. He meets beautiful fashion model Saint James and falls in love. They spend the night together, and the model wakes up the next morning with "a dynamite hickey." This, of course, disturbs her psychiatrist boy friend, Benjamin, who winds up trying to dispatch the vampire through a variety of methods (hypnotism, silver bullets, etc.). Although much of this is pretty funny, the film is a scattershot affair ...