My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)

Granted I only know of one other movie that fits into this genre and that is the Jim Carrey movie "Once Bitten". This one though is better than that one as it is just a bit funnier and has a better and more likable plot to it. This one has a teen going to the house of a girl for what he thinks is going to be a one night stand kind of thing, as it turns out though the person he is seeing is a vampire and he is soon infected and must now feast on blood. Thankfully, it does not have to be human blood as a rather friendly vampire teaches him the ways of living a rather nice existence as a vampire without having to drink the blood of humans. Unfortuanately, a sort of Van Helsing type hunter of vampires who saw him and his friend at the girl's house where he was bitten, however, he thinks it is the guy's friend and not him that has been bitten and turned into a vampire. The guy also is having girl trouble as he even tries to use vampire hypnotism to get the girl he likes. All this makes for an very funny comedy that really is rather lighthearted. So while not perfect, it makes for a fun film to watch.

This movie has to be in the to ten classic examples of a great 80s scary/corny/funny/stylish movie it screams the 80s. The acting wasn't bad could of been better but it all worked out. Fun twist to vampires by being able to go out during the day and not having vampires evil people. The cars are awesome looking too I have not seen a VW Rabbit convertible in a long time nor a good looking BMW that they wrecked halfway during the movie which looked better than my first car. I thought it was interesting that it was filmed in Houston and not in LA like most films are. In conclusion I gave this film a 8/10 because it was limitedly released on DVD and very hard to find.

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!

It's a very funny parody of vampire movies. The best things are David Warner as the mad vampire killer and René Auberjonois as Robert Sean Leonard's undead guide. Most of Warner and his assistant Paul Willson's scenes are priceless. Kathy Bates has a little role as Kathy D. Bates. Vote: 7/10.