My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)

Powerful

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I saw this recently on a faded old VHS tape, and remembered it dimly. Looking at it now, it seems charming.When it was first released, it was recognized by pretty much everyone as a spoof of coming out as a gay teenager. To hammer the point home, the mother is seen reading a paperback copy of "1 Teenager In 10", the most popular coming out book of the time. David Warner hams it up as the persecuting vampire hunter [= gay-hating evangelist], who is of course a self-loathing closet case. The list of sight gags and in-jokes that were included to make sure nobody missed the point would be too long to go into. The producers were having some good-natured fun, and hoping, no doubt, to lighten-up as well as to enlighten.But I have no clue how a teenage audience would look at this film, nowadays. In some places, where there is education and culture, the terrifying ordeals that gay teens had to go through are a thing of the past. But I'm sure there are plenty of dark, nasty corners of our continent where it's just as bad as it always was.

"My Best Friend is a Vampire" is a good movie. A different spin on vampires than say "Buffy"-which I also like.I says vampires get a bad press, compounder by the fact that there are some vampires who behave bad. The tamale vampire who bites Jeremy, changing him into a vampire can be called a bad vampire.The parallels with gay people are obvious. Just like there are bad vampires, there are bad gay people. Jeremys' parents, quite reasonably, think he is gay. They do not turn on him. They may not be that pleased about it, but they accept what they see as their son being. They are more than pleased when Jeremy introduces his new girlfriend. Maybe they think he tried one path, now is trying another, but it's quite clear he is their son, no matter what.One thing. I'm certain they are convinced Jeremy is having sex with Modoc. I think most parents would, even if they accept that their child is gay, have problems with him or her getting on with an older adult.

Ah, our precious 80's, a time of great music, interesting taste in fashion, action movies and goofy teen horror films. During this time we had films like: Teen Wolf, Once Bitten, Teen Witch, movies that involved our classic horror stories with the world of a teenager. What would happen if a teenager was a werewolf, zombie, or even a vampire. So I was watching TV and came across My Best Friend is a Vampire, don't know why, just figured I would check it out, actually I seemed to like it. So I went out and bought it and watched the unedited version of course and still actually found myself having fun watching this movie. While it's not exactly the most original idea and there are some really silly moments, I think My Best Friend is a Vampire is a small little gem.Jeremy Capello is a typical American teenager fighting with the usual problem of getting himself a girlfriend. Although he has someone interested in him, he has his eyes on his classmate Darla Blake, but she in turn is unnerved by his constant staring at her. Recently, Jeremy has been having some weird nightmares about a strange woman trying to seduce him, and later he actually encounters that woman named Nora, who makes an obvious invitation to him, while delivering groceries. His skirt-chasing friend Ralph convinces him to take up the opportunity for a first erotic experience. But the encounter goes badly: first the woman bites him in the neck, then two strangers burst into the house, forcing Jeremy to run for his life. Next morning, Jeremy looks pale and does not feel well. Also, over the day he notices a strange man observing him. This man pops into his bedroom the very next night, introduces himself as Modoc and carefully attempts to relate to Jeremy that he is now a vampire. Jeremy of course is at first skeptical, to say the least, but a sudden aversion to garlic, an increasing sensitivity to sunlight and a craving for blood slowly convince him otherwise. His new vampire "life-style" hampers his attempts to start a relationship with Darla, who has finally become interested in him; otherwise Jeremy begins to adapt to the minor impacts the change has brought to his life.I think the reason I loved this film was because of it's camp value and the actors that seemed to enjoy making this movie. I nearly died laughing when the vampire slayers that are supposed to be after Jeremy think that his best friend, who's mortal, is the vampire they want to slay. They finally capture him and are just so over the top with it, all the times they think he's a vampire, he just thinks that they're perverts. I also loved how Jeremy's parents are trying to figure out what's wrong with their son, they come to the conclusion that he is gay. Plus you gotta love how it's awkward enough being a teenager, imagine going through your teen years as a vampire. I'd recommend My Best Friend is a Vampire, it's nothing too special, but it's a funny little movie that was over looked at a time of teen witches and werewolves.8/10

What do you do to have sex when you are a teen-ager. This movie shows what might happen if you aren't careful. Not AIDS worse, Vampirism. This movie is full of humor, and fun.