ShangLuda Admirable film.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Joel For some strange reason, I've always liked a good vampire flick... especially when there's some humor thrown in.This movie satisfied that need perfectly, although I shave a few points off because there's a better one of these 80's horror-comedies out there. (Once Bitten) At first this movie was hard for me to start. I kept wondering if this would turn out to be any good... especially considering the opening with the whole castration thing.I learned to just move through the movie and give it a chance.Granted that the other posters are correct; there are a few similarities between this movie and Once Bitten, (A teen slowly turning into one of the undead, teen's friend taking aforementioned teen out to get laid, etc.) but so what? Simalarities to Once Bitten aside, this movie is an alright watch.8/10

Lee Eisenberg Oh not another vampire comedy! Actually, this one isn't half bad. Robert Sean Leonard plays a Houston high school student who one night has a fling with a sexy babe. The only thing is, this sexy babe just happens to be a creature of the night, and she turns him into one. At first, he refuses to accept his new status as a vampire, but a kindly old man (Rene Auberjonois) helps him. But there remains the question of how to deal with two vampire hunters."My Best Friend Is a Vampire" isn't really anything special, but it's good for a few laughs. And the idea of a vampire in Houston...well, we know that there are certain vampiric people from there!

kayebtoyz this review has nothing to do with the acting abilities, direction, costumes, or anything technical...it's all about the feelings and what it meant to me "way back then".... almost 10 years after high school i still remember this movie..... i caught this movie on one on AMC (i can't believe i'm that old)... but it was on cable TV when i was in high school and i thought it was a creative spin on the B-vamp movies, and it cracked me up. So one day when one of the cheerleaders and a guy who would become the VP for student council at the local college (i went there, too) were discussing 90201 i asked if they had seen this movie the night before.... at first they thought that i was making it up (i guess that it was my reputation for being stoned and/or making bad jokes). but for a long time whenever the previous night's television scheduled programs were discussed one of them always turned to me and said something like, "we're not going to have any of the vampire s*** today...."...to their defense, they thought that i was making up this movie, they weren't being mean....especially after one of them actually saw the movie and i pulled the ethnic card on us all (we are all from different racial backgrounds and i asked what they would do if their best friend was different, and by the way, weren't these parents cool? so they thought that he was gay, they still went up against the cops for him) i know that this reekes of total cheese, but then again, didn't high school? anyway, i've seen so many vampire movies and i had read all of the anne rice books (hell, i saw this before interview with the vampire came out as a movie....) but this was still a different view on an old story...i cracked my ass up!! after all these years it still brings up some things that i didn't think about then, such as....how my parents would react if they didn't think that i was "normal".... and that the reactions of the parents in this movie reminded me of the dad in "better off dead"......and i wonder if those people from high school say this and thought about me... After all, isn't that some of what movies are about? where you were when you saw....oh... well... that may be music, my bad....but connie and angel, i thought about you when i saw this movie again tonight... to everyone else, this movie is worth watching if you like B-movies, vampire movies, and comedies.

Kristine 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