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The Worst Film Ever

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

In Los Angeles, the virgin college student Mark Kendall (Jim Carrey) is unsuccessfully trying to get into his girlfriend Robin Pierce (Karen Kopins) paints. He decides to go to a bar in Hollywood with his also virgin friends Russ (Skip Lackey) and Jamie (Thomas Ballatore) to flirt and score. Meanwhile, the 400 year-old vampire Countess (Lauren Hutton) and her driver and butler Sebastian (Cleavon Little) are seeking out a virgin lad to keep her beauty and youth appearance. The Countess needs to feed three times on a virgin before the Halloween that is close otherwise she will look older. When the Countess stumbles with Mark in the bar, she brings Mark home and seduces him. Mark changes his behavior and soon he realizes that he is turning into a vampire. Is there any chance to save Mark? "Once Bitten" is one of my favorite movies ever and I do not know how many times I have watched it. The plot is very funny and Lauren Hutton is impressively beautiful and sexy. This movie for me is another gem from the 80's, maybe one of the best decades of the American Cinema history. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Procura-se Rapaz Virgem" ("Seeking a Virgin Lad")

Jim Carey is at the height of his comedic powers in this truly delightful romp. With hilarious support from Cleavon Little (his best work since Blazing Saddles) and a surprising effective Lauren Hutton, Carey's encounters with a beautiful, seductive vampire are downright sidesplitting. Directed quite creatively by someone who understands comedy, Howard Shore, and written by an inspired David Hines, there is never a dull moment (nor a serious one) as this movie moves along at a breakneck pace. The lovely and talented Karen Kopins holds her own in this superb cast and delivers one of the funniest performances of her career in the role of Carey's virginic girlfriend. Special mention should be made of the hip musical score and the imaginative set design as well. All in all, this rates as one of Jim Carey's best films and one that will tickle the funny bone of general audiences as well as fans.

Overall not-so-funny mid-80's comedy/horror (although you may take that second genre category with a spoonful of salt) that nowadays is only interesting as a curiosity because it features one of the very first lead roles of comical genius – at least according to some – Jim Carrey. Well, there's nothing even remotely genius about "Once Bitten". There are some inventive gags and admittedly even some sequences that spontaneously cause you to laugh (like when the sensual female vampire Lauren Hutton literally sucks the buttons off Carrey's shirt and spits them out into the air in all directions), but generally speaking this is a quite forgettable and tedious little 80's venture. Lauren Hutton plays a very frustrated 390-year-old vampire countess – cute little homage to the Elizabeth Bathory legend – on the constant lookout for virgin blood to boost up her energy. She finds ice-cream truck driving nerd Mark Kendall. He has a high school sweetheart whom he loves very much, but she thinks the time isn't right yet for sex and thus Mark is beginning to experience some sexual frustration himself. Easy enough prey for the countess, in other words, but the feeding on virgin blood occurs in repeated phases and Mark's girlfriend starts to fight back. "Once Bitten" has a slow and extremely boring start, but the pacing picks up after a while and even the jokes gradually improve a little. There's for example a downright awesome dance-off contest between the Countess and Carrey's prudish girlfriend during a Halloween party and to the tunes and lyrics of an appropriately entitled song "Hands Off". There's also a pretty great supportive role for Cleavon Little ("Blazing Saddles", "Vanishing Point") as the Countess' gay and black servant Sebastian. The fact that Jim Carrey's future career of comedy would entirely depend on his stretchy facial expression was quite obvious from his earliest films already. Here in "Once Bitten", for example, three quarters of his performance is put in by his mouth muscles.

About the most interesting thing one can say about this movie is that it is a very early movie in the career of Jim Carrey. Other than that there is really nothing all that special about this movie which is not all that bad, just not all that good. The funniest scene in the entire movie for me focused more on the guys playing Jim Carrey's buddies in a very funny shower scene. Other than that most of the jokes are typical and you also have a dance scene that is very painful to watch. The story has an old vampire lady who must feast upon the blood of a virgin to keep her youthful appearance. Apparently, this is a very hard task to do in California (actually I am betting it is very easy, but they are probably saying it is hard as some sort of joke about the sexual promiscuity of those who live in the state). Well the vampires underlings find Jim and figure they have hit the jackpot so goes his slow transition to being a vampire. Like I said I liked some stuff in the movie, other parts I did not care for all that much. The friend's scene hilarious, but most of the jokes only garner a slight chuckle at best. Thankfully Jim Carrey was not based on the merits of this movie alone because he is not even the strongest actor in it. Worth a look, but not worth to many looks afterwards.