History Film / MyBestFriendIsAVampire

* DreamSequence: At the beginning of the film, Jeremy has a particularly bizarre dream involving the girl's locker room, Darla and a nun with a [[GroinAttack pair of giant shears...]]

* GoodParents: Jeremy's parents do wildly misinterpret what's going on, but they clearly do love their son and they're doing their well-meaning best to be as supportive of him as possible.

* KnightTemplar: Professor [=McCarthy=], who believes that vampires are TheVirus and must be stopped lest there be a [[ZombieApocalypse Vampire Apocalypse]]. Even as Jeremy explains that vampires aren't what he thinks and spares his life, he keeps trying to kill him. He finally stops after being made into one.

* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: subverted -- Jeremy ignores cheerleader Candy's obvious interest in him to go after Darla.

-->'''Jeremy:''' "A stake through the heart would kill ''anybody''."

*** Must have lead to one hell of a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop at the end. "It's okay to do drugs if you have a girlfriend." Or, less oddly, "The behavior of having a new girlfriend can be mistaken for being on drugs."

After a one-night stand gone horribly awry, high school student Jeremy Capello (Robert Sean Leonard) finds himself one of the undead. Now he must come to terms with being a vampire while trying to get a date with the girl of his (literal) dreams. Oh, and it doesn't help that there are a couple of vampire hunters in the neighborhood...

* OrdinaryHighschoolStudent: Jeremy.

After a one-night stand gone horribly awry, high school student Jeremy Capello finds himself one of the undead. (Sort of...) Now he must come to terms with being a vampire while trying to get a date with the girl of his (literal) dreams. Oh, and it doesn't help that there are a couple of vampire hunters in the neighborhood...

A lighthearted 1980s teen comedy with all the silliness one would expect thereof.

* AlternateHistory: Modoc informs Jeremy that one the the US Presidents was a vampire.

*** Must have lead to one hell of a WarpedAesop at the end. "It's okay to do drugs if you have a girlfriend." Or, less oddly, "The behavior of having a new girlfriend can be mistaken for being on drugs."

** Professor McCarthy seems to think that vampires have a weakness to silver. He's incorrect.

* CaptainObvious: [=McCarthy=] tests Ralph with garlic and crosses to prove that he's a vampire, and Ralph passes, showing that he's human. So [=McCarthy=] suggests stabbing Ralph in the heart with a stake, and if he die, he's a vampire, right?

-->'''Jeremy:''' "A stake through the heart would kill ''anything''."

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* KnightTemplar: Professor [=McCarthy=], who believes that vampires are TheVirus and must be stopped lest there be a [[ZombieApocalypse Vampire Apocalypse]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While "undead" vampires can't go out in the sun, "living" vampires (like Jeremy and Modoc) are at most slightly annoyed by it. (This concept has roots in traditional Romanian folklore.) They do actually age, albeit slowly - the equivalent of one human year per decade. They also have some mind-control abilities and can transform into wolves.

* VegetarianVampire: Blood is bought at butcher shops. Modoc suggests pig's blood, O positive, to Jeremy. The butcher Jeremy goes to seems to be well aware of what he is and teases him about it being his first time.

* VegetarianVampire: Blood is bought at butcher shops.

-->'''Jeremy:''' "Professor... getting stabbed in the heart will kill ''anything''."

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: While "dead" vampires can't go out in the sun, "living" vampires (like Jeremy and Modoc) are at most slightly annoyed by it. (This concept has roots in traditional Romanian folklore.) They do actually age, albeit slowly - the equivalent of one human year per decade. They also have some mind-control abilities and can transform into wolves.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{House}} Dr. James Wilson]] as Jeremy, David Warner as Professor [=McCarthy=] and [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Odo]] as Modoc.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{House}} Robert Sean Leonard]] as Jeremy, David Warner as Professor [=McCarthy=] and [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine René Auberjonois]] as Modoc.

** reasonable a lot of people in Houston don't have a noticable Texas accent.

*** Must have lead to one hell of a WarpedAesop at the end. "It's okay to do drugs if you have a girlfriend."

-->''Modoc:'' "Please tell me you're not going to sulk for the next twenty years."
-->''Jeremy:'' "No, but I think I'm entitled to a few minutes."

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{House}} Robert Sean Leonard]] as Jeremy, David Warner as Professor [=McCarthy=] and [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine René Auberjonois]] as Modoc.