YMMV / Love at First Bite

• Badass Decay: Dracula gets turned into a ridicule magnet. Then again, the whole movie works because of it.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • It shares a fandom with another 1970s mainstream horror spoof, the 1974 Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein, which was said to have inspired this parody.
  • It also shares a fandom with Nocturna, which was also released in the same year. Both movies were horror-comedies featuring disco dancing, both starring an actor with the surname Hamilton (George Hamilton and Anthony Hamilton), and are both set in Transylvania and New York in 1979.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This wouldn't be the last time Sherman Hemsley played a clergyman. He would go on to play a clergyman in the 1986-1991 NBC television series Amen. He would do so again in the 2009 film American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, which ended up being his final film role.
• Older than You Think: When Dracula is at Cindy Sondheim's house, there is a can of Tab on the shelf, proving once again that E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (which was released three years later) was not the first movie to employ product placement.
• Questionable Casting: George Hamilton the suntan king cast as Dracula. It worked.
• Signature Scene: The film is well known for the song "I Love the Nightlife" by Alicia Bridges playing during the disco sequence.
• The Woobie: "As for me, in a world without romance, it is better to be dead." Despite being a comedic character, Dracula has several moments of painful sincerity, owing to the movie playing its Romanticism vs. Enlightenment themes with heartfelt earnestness.

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