The 1993 movie Love Bites is a comedy-horror film starring 1980s pop star Adam Ant as a vampire named Zachary Simms.
🧛 Plot Summary
Zachary Simms is a 350-year-old vampire who wakes up in his coffin after having overslept for 100 years.
He finds his crypt is now under the house of a modern career woman named Kendall Gordon (Kimberly Foster).
Zachary and Kendall fall in love, leading the vampire to try and "re-humanize" himself to be with her—by doing things like eating human food.
His attempts are complicated by his jealous vampire creator and former lover, Nerissa (Michelle Forbes), who demands his return, and Kendall's jealous ex-boyfriend, Dwight (Roger Rose).
The humor comes from Zachary's comical collision with the modern world as he tries to adapt to the 1990s.
🎭 Box Office Performance
Information regarding the theatrical box office performance of Love Bites is not widely available in easily searchable public records. This is often the case for smaller, independent, or straight-to-video releases from that era.
The film was released in 1993, but it does not appear on typical lists of top-grossing films for that year, suggesting it had a limited theatrical release or was quickly moved to the home video market (VHS/rental), which was common for genre films and lower-budget comedies at the time.
The film is sometimes listed with the alternate title Love Bites: The Reluctant Vampire.
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