Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

If one seeks out this 80s movie for the presence of Jim Carrey (in his first major role), they should be advised that they won't be subjected to much of his trademark wackiness, improvisation, and body contorting, face making shtick. It *is* there, but most of the time Carrey performs with a good deal of restraint. He is likable, as is the cast in general, but overall there are no comedy fireworks here. At best, this is a decent lightweight diversion, with scattered chuckles and some energy here and there; there's an impressive dance sequence with Carrey and his co-stars Lauren Hutton and Karen Kopins showing off their moves.Carrey plays Mark Kendall, an 18 year old who of course is frustrated by the fact that his hottie girlfriend Robin (Kopins) isn't ready to go all the way. The virginal Mark is thus easy prey for a hot-to-trot vampiress (ever glamorous Hutton) who must feast on the blood of a virgin - a rare commodity in the L.A. of the 1980s - three times before a certain date. Mark starts to exhibit the traits of being a vampire so it's up to Robin and Marks' two buddies, Jamie (Thomas Ballatore) and Russ (Skip Lackey) to figure out what's up and put an end to Huttons' plans.Horror fans can at least take note of the presence of familiar faces from genre fare of the period, including actors from three "Friday the 13th" franchise entries: Stuart Charno (Part 2), Carey More (The Final Chapter), and Dominick Brascia (A New Beginning). Also appearing are the late, great Cleavon Little who makes the most of a clichéd role (as Huttons' gay chauffeur / butler / faithful companion), Megan Mullally ('Will & Grace'), and Peter Elbling ("Phantom of the Paradise") as a weirdly accented, helpful bookseller.Other than the aforementioned dance sequence (in which both Hutton and Kopins show off some mighty fine legs), there's nothing here that's really memorable, but people may find that this kills time painlessly enough.Six out of 10.

What made me exciting for watching this film is the Brazilian's title, which is something like "Looking for a virgin boy". That is very creative- -and so is the movie itself--, given that people are losing their virginity sooner than they did in the past, making it hard to find someone that hasn't ever got laid. Also, it is interesting to notice how Jim Carrey used to act before he started portraying goofs character, like he did in "Dumb & Dumber", "Ace Ventura", among many others. However, "Once Bitten" has a too weak plot to make it an amusing picture. This is not about poor character development-- in fact, this aspect of the movie is great--, but it's about lack of funny or engaging scenes to make it a real comedy. Besides, the final action scenes felt quite boring to me, since nothing was being taken seriously or hilariously. They were just running for a random and uninteresting reason. All in all, this is a regular movie, which is relatively decent due to the great 80's nostalgia and an original story.

Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey, Karen Kopins and Cleavon Little star in this 1985 horror comedy. This begins with a vampire countess (Hutton) sending her vampires to seek virgin blood before Halloween so she can retain her youthful beauty. Carrey (The Mask) plays California teen virgin, Mark Kendall who wants to have sex with his girlfriend, Robin Pierce (Kopins) who isn't quite ready and he becomes frustrated. After he decides to go with his pals, Russ (Skip Lackey) and Jamie (Thomas Ballatore) to meet girls, he becomes desired by the Countess. Mark gets bitten by her and his behavior changes. Robin, Russ and Jamie learn what's happening to him and try to save him from becoming a vampire. The late, Little (Blazing Saddles) plays flamboyant vampire, Sebastian who works for The Countess. Though it has a bit of corny moments, this isn't a bad 80's vampire/horror comedy with a good cast & score I recommend.

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.