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‘Your favourite ache within the neck is about to chew your humorous bone!’
Love at First Chunk is a 1979 American horror comedy movie directed by Stan Dragoti from a screenplay by Robert Kaufman, utilizing characters initially created by Bram Stoker.
The film stars George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin (Saturday the 14th) and Arte Johnson.
The unique music rating was composed by Charles Bernstein.
Plot:
Depend Dracula is expelled from his fort by the Communist authorities of Romania, which plans to transform the construction right into a coaching facility for gymnasts (the top coach declares that it’s going to embrace Nadia Comăneci). The world-weary Depend travels to New York Metropolis along with his bug-eating manservant, Renfield, and establishes himself in a lodge.
Whereas Dracula learns that America accommodates such wonders as blood banks, intercourse golf equipment, and discotheques, he additionally proceeds to undergo the overall ego-crushing that comes from dwelling within the Massive Apple within the late Seventies as he romantically pursues flaky vogue mannequin Cindy Sondheim, whom he has admired from afar and believes to be the present reincarnation of his real love.
Dracula is ineptly pursued in flip by Sondheim’s psychiatrist and quasi-boyfriend Jeffrey Rosenberg. Jeffrey is the grandson of Dracula’s previous nemesis Fritz (sic) van Helsing however modified his title to Rosenberg “for skilled causes”. Rosenberg’s quite a few strategies to fight Dracula – mirrors, garlic, a Star of David (which he makes use of as an alternative of the cross), and hypnosis – are simply averted by the Depend. Rosenberg additionally tries burning Dracula’s coffin with the vampire nonetheless inside however is arrested by lodge safety.
Subsequently, he tries to shoot him with three silver bullets, however Dracula stays unscathed, patiently explaining that this works solely on werewolves. Rosenberg’s more and more erratic actions finally trigger him to be locked up as a lunatic, however as mysterious instances of blood-bank robberies and vampiric assaults start to unfold, NYPD Lieutenant Ferguson begins to imagine the psychiatrist’s claims and will get him launched…
” …a rough, pleasant little film with a bang-up forged and no pretensions in any respect […] Generally tackiness works to the movie’s benefit […] If you happen to’re going to indicate a bat on display, it would as effectively be a silly-looking stuffed bat suspended from apparent wires. A number of the movie’s ethnic jokes skate by on very skinny ice.” The New York Instances, April thirteenth 1979
“Atrociously directed and filled with groan-making jokes, however the forged are having such an excellent time that it’s tough to not reply in an analogous approach. See it if you really feel at your silliest.” Time Out journal, 1979
“It’s a enjoyable notion and George Hamilton makes it work. Within the first place, he’s humorous simply to look at […] Director Stan Dragoti retains the chuckles coming, spaced by a number of good guffaws.” Selection, December thirty first 1978
Trailer:
Dracula’s disco strikes clip:
Free on-line on YouTube:
Selection dialogue:
George Hamilton [Count Dracula]: Shh! Youngsters of the evening, shut up!
Physician Jeff Rosenberg [Richard Benjamin]: “Not humorous, lieutenant. Horrible! Messy! Unspeakable!”
Technical specs:
1 hour 36 minutes
Audio: Mono
Facet ratio: 1.85: 1
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