Once Bitten
Short description
Mark Kendall is a teenager whose attempts to take his relationship with his girlfriend Robin further keep running into her wish to wait. A centuries-old Countess, meanwhile, must drink a virgin's blood three times before Halloween to keep her eternal youth, and her search brings her to a Los Angeles nightclub where she singles out Mark. After an evening with her he remembers little, but he soon finds himself avoiding daylight, dressing differently and craving raw meat, while Robin tries to pull him back before the transformation is complete.
Howard Storm directed this 1985 American comedy with fantasy, horror and romance elements, from a screenplay by Jonathan Roberts, Jeffrey Hause and David Hines. Jim Carrey plays Mark, with Lauren Hutton as the Countess, Karen Kopins as Robin and Cleavon Little as the Countess's servant Sebastian. The film was made for about 3 million dollars and took roughly 10 million worldwide, a solid return on its budget. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.6 from around 19,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.8 from some 382 votes. A critics' score of 3.3 from nine reviews is noticeably lower than the audience scores. It runs 94 minutes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The band 3-Speed, who performed the film's title song, appeared in several scenes that did not make the final cut.
- Morgan Fairchild turned down the role of the Countess.
- This is Jim Carrey's first film where he plays a leading role.
- Screenwriter Jeffrey Hause advocated for Michael J. Fox for the role of Mark, but executive producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. was convinced that Fox would never be a star on the big screen.
- During the chase scene, when Robin, played by Karen Kopins, hits the vampire, she knocked out his fake teeth in one of the takes.
- The audience at the preview screenings reacted so positively to Karen Kopins and her performance that, at the very last moment, it was decided to put her image on the movie posters.
- One of the deleted scenes showed vampires eating cockroaches. Jim Carrey insisted on using real cockroaches in this scene. The actors received no extra pay for eating them.
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