Movie Cosmos - Once Bitten

Description:

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.

Top Cast >

Jim Carrey

As Mark Kendall

Lauren Hutton

As Countess

Karen Kopins

As Robin Pierce

Cleavon Little

As Sebastian

Thomas Ballatore

As Jamie

Stuart Charno

As Cabin Boy Vampire

Skip Lackey

As Russ

Jeb Stuart Adams

As World War I Ace Vampire

Joseph Brutsman

As Confederate Vampire

Dominick Brascia

As Young Man Buying Ice Cream

Robin Klein

As Flowerchild Vampire

Peggy Pope

As Mrs. Kendall

Richard Schaal

As Mr. Kendall

Peter Elbling

As Bookseller

Carey More

As Moll Flanders Vampire

Anna Mathias

As Daphne

Kate Zentall

As Tanya

Laura Urstein

As Darlene

Megan Mullally

As Suzette

Garry Goodrow

As Wino

Beans Morocco

As Harry (as Dan Barrows)

Chris Tashima

As Dream Sequence Extra (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Howard Storm

Director

Joanne DiVito

Choreographer

Russell Thacher

Associate Producer

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

Executive Producer

David Hines

Screenplay

Jeffrey Hause

Screenplay

Jonathan Roberts

Screenplay

Dimitri Villard

Story, Producer

Robert Wald

Producer

Frank Hildebrand

Producer

Don Behrns

Production Manager

Gene Sultan

First Assistant Director, Second Unit Director

Nicholas Batchelor

Second Assistant Director

Joe Regis

Music Supervisor

Robert Altshuler

Additional Second Assistant Director

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Continuity

Charlotte Brändström

Production Coordinator

Michael Singer

Unit Publicist

Craig Pointes

Location Manager

Christa Munro

Production Illustrator

John Stadelman

Assistant Set Decoration

Robert Lucas

Leadman

Jeff Butcher

Set Dresser

Michael Gastaldo

Set Dresser

Barbara Benz

Property Master

Harold O'Neal

Assistant Costume Designer

Richard Arrington

Makeup Artist

Peter Tothpal

Hairstylist

Deborah Figuly

Assistant Makeup Artist

Lisa Meyers

Assistant Hairstylist

Steve LaPorte

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Joe Woo Jr.

Assistant Editor

Laura Rindner

Assistant Editor

Ted H. Hauser

First Assistant Camera

Dean Goodhill

Second Assistant Camera

Jack Yanekian

Best Boy Electric

Michael Uva

Best Boy Grip

Mark Ulano

Sound Mixer

Patrushkha Mierzwa

Boom Operator

Gale M. Adler

Still Photographer

Phil Stern

Still Photographer

Bo Falck

Transportation Coordinator

Ronald Linxwiler

Transportation Co-Captain

James Winburn

Stunt Coordinator

Paula Dell

Stunts

Bernie Pock

Stunts

William L. Stevenson

Sound Editor

Jerry Pirozzi

Sound Editor

Don Higgins

ADR Editor

Kathleen Bennett

Music Editor

Ralph Milliken

Negative Cutter

Helen Hahn

Negative Cutter

Phill Norman

Title Designer

Theodore Soderberg

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Kevin F. Cleary

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Paul Wells

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

John Du Prez

Original Music Composer

Adam Greenberg

Director of Photography

Marc Grossman

Editor

Vivian McRae

Casting

Gene Rudolf

Production Design

Robert Howland

Art Direction

Jerie Kelter

Set Decoration

Jill M. Ohanneson

Costume Design

Reviews:

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.

2015-03-10

Andre Gonzales (6/10)

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.

2023-07-21