Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
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Film Cast:
- Mark Kendall: Jim Carrey
- Countess: Lauren Hutton
- Robin Pierce: Karen Kopins
- Sebastian: Cleavon Little
- Jamie: Thomas Ballatore
- Russ: Skip Lackey
- World War I Ace Vampire: Jeb Stuart Adams
- Confederate Vampire: Joseph Brutsman
- Cabin Boy Vampire: Stuart Charno
- Young Man Buying Ice Cream: Dominick Brascia
- Flowerchild Vampire: Robin Klein
- Mrs. Kendall: Peggy Pope
- Mr. Kendall: Richard Schaal
- Bookseller: Peter Elbling
- Moll Flanders Vampire: Carey More
- Daphne: Anna Mathias
- Tanya: Kate Zentall
- Darlene: Laura Urstein
- Suzette: Megan Mullally
- Wino: Garry Goodrow
Film Crew:
- Choreographer: Joanne DiVito
- Screenplay: David Hines
- Associate Producer: Russell Thacher
- Executive Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
- Producer: Robert Wald
- Second Assistant Camera: Dean Goodhill
- Stunt Coordinator: James Winburn
- Story: Dimitri Villard
- Location Manager: Craig Pointes
- Property Master: Barbara Benz
- Second Unit Director: Gene Sultan
- Production Coordinator: Charlotte Brändström
- Best Boy Electric: Jack Yanekian
- Transportation Co-Captain: Ronald Linxwiler
- Title Designer: Phill Norman
- Production Manager: Don Behrns
- Continuity: Kerry Lyn McKissick
- Set Dresser: Jeff Butcher
- Assistant Makeup Artist: Deborah Figuly
- Still Photographer: Phil Stern
- Makeup Artist: Richard Arrington
- First Assistant Camera: Ted H. Hauser
- Transportation Coordinator: Bo Falck
- Negative Cutter: Ralph Milliken
- Additional Second Assistant Director: Robert Altshuler
- Assistant Editor: Joe Woo Jr.
- Leadman: Robert Lucas
- Set Dresser: Michael Gastaldo
- Assistant Hairstylist: Lisa Meyers
- Boom Operator: Patrushkha Mierzwa
- ADR Editor: Don Higgins
- Music Supervisor: Joe Regis
- Still Photographer: Gale M. Adler
- Stunts: Bernie Pock
- Sound Editor: William L. Stevenson
- Sound Editor: Jerry Pirozzi
- Music Editor: Kathleen Bennett
- Unit Publicist: Michael Singer
- Assistant Costume Designer: Harold O’Neal
- Stunts: Paula Dell
- Negative Cutter: Helen Hahn
- Screenplay: Jeffrey Hause
- Producer: Frank Hildebrand
- Assistant Set Decoration: John Stadelman
- Special Effects Makeup Artist: Steve LaPorte
- Best Boy Grip: Michael Uva
- Sound Mixer: Mark Ulano
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin F. Cleary
- Screenplay: Jonathan Roberts
- Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Batchelor
- Hairstylist: Peter Tothpal
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Wells
- Production Illustrator: Christa Munro
- Assistant Editor: Laura Rindner
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Theodore Soderberg
- Director: Howard Storm
- Director of Photography: Adam Greenberg
- Costume Design: Jill M. Ohanneson
- Production Design: Gene Rudolf
- Editor: Marc Grossman
- Casting: Vivian McRae
- Set Decoration: Jerie Kelter
- Original Music Composer: John Du Prez
- Art Direction: Robert Howland
Movie Reviews:
- ZC: This early Jim Carrey vehicle combines the vampire fad with the typical 1980’s sex comedy to make for a fun-but-silly vampire farce. Lauren Hutton works well as the vamping vampire, while Cleavon Little plays a flaming homosexual variation of the Renfield archetype to her blatantly sexual Countess.
Carrey plays this one relatively straight. No crazy Ace Ventura antics here. His transformation from typical “teenager” to brooding, angsty vampire is punctuated with moments of manic comedy as he realizes what’s happening to him. Like many 80s comedies, the climax features a choreographed dance number and a good old fashioned chase scene through the vampire’s home. Though certainly not the deepest or most innovative movie you’ll ever see, Once Bitten is a fun romp that showcases the talents of its stars in a delightfully cheeseball 1980s way. - Andre Gonzales: Decent movie, I could have lived without the singing though. Other then that its a pretty good movie. A vampire needs virgin blood to stay young.