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- 1985
- PG-13
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 34 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 34 m
Summary A vampire Countess (Lauren Hutton) needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall (Jim Carrey).
Directed By: Howard Storm
Written By: Dimitri Villard, David Hines, Jeffrey Hause, Jonathan Roberts
- 1985
- PG-13
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 34 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 34 m
Summary A vampire Countess (Lauren Hutton) needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall (Jim Carrey).
Directed By: Howard Storm
Written By: Dimitri Villard, David Hines, Jeffrey Hause, Jonathan Roberts
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
64
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
25% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
64
50% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
25% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Once Bitten is that extreme rarity, a youth movie that's made the grown-up discovery of how sexy and amusing a situation can be if you leave things to the imagination.
Every season it appears that Hollywood has truly and finally run out of
comic things to say with coming- of-age scenarios, and every once in a
while it's demonstrated that the genre simply needs intelligent handling.
Once Bitten is one of the better things to happen lately to adolescent sex
comedies simply because it isn't gross; because it isn't mean- minded;
because Jim Carrey has a way of pouting that makes him look like he has
buck teeth. [27 Nov 1985]
Once Bitten affects a glossy, sophisticated look that does little to upgrade the film's adolescent humor. As directed by Howard Storm, it has a lot more stylishness than wit. Miss Hutton looks great in black, but her predatory vampire grows tiresome very quickly, as do all the Bloody Mary jokes.
This attempt to combine elements of vampire lore with the limited format of the teen sex comedy is a monstrous movie all right, a frighteningly awful horror comedy.
Production Company
Night Life Inc.,
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Release Date Nov 15, 1985
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Mark Kendall just found out that his one-night stand has been around for centuries.