{"id":23056,"date":"2014-10-13T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23056"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T04:04:48","slug":"once-bitten-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/13\/once-bitten-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Bitten (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oncebitten\"<\/a>It\u2019s often completely ignored or dismissed in the annals of Jim Carrey\u2019s film career, but \u201cOnce Bitten\u201d is one of my favorite of the Carrey comedy works. It\u2019s not a masterpiece by any means, but it\u2019s one of Carrey\u2019s most restrained roles, where he\u2019s funny without being over the top or rubbery as he was in his more successful films. \u201cOnce Bitten\u201d is that eighties guilty pleasure I go back to again and again for a good chuckle. And to ponder the idea of being seduced by a vampiric Lauren Hutton. Either way, it\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n

Hutton is vivacious as the Countess, an ancient vampiress who is accompanied by her loyal man servant Sebastian (Cleavon Little). Every four hundred years before Halloween, the Countess has to feed on virgin blood three times, or else she loses her youthful appearance. Sadly, what with the eighties being an age of hedonism and decadence, it\u2019s becoming tougher than ever for her. Enter Mark Kendall, as played by Carrey, who is a local high schooler anxious to lose his virginity. It\u2019s one of the bigger goals for a young man of that age to lose his virginity, and Mark constantly tries to seal the deal with girlfriend Robin.<\/p>\n

After fighting with her, Mark\u2019s friends take him out for a night on the town to find his first, and Mark eventually comes across the Countess at a cheesy singles club. The countess finds Mark appealing and very appetizing and goes through every possible length to seduce him. She\u2019s able to drink from him twice, but the third time is very difficult since Robin and Mark\u2019s friends begin to snap in to action when they suspect The Countess is a vampire. Carrey really doesn\u2019t find his niche with over the top physical humor until much later in his career, but there are definite hints with the role and his willingness to perform physical stunts in some moments.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a really cheesy dance sequence where Carrey seems to have fun knocking himself over and playing a rag doll between the Countess and his girlfriend Robin. Hutton and Little are also very funny as the scheming vampire couple on the hunt for virgins, you just figure eventually she\u2019d realize moving to a more conservative area would grant her a better chance at virgins. That said, \u201cOnce Bitten\u201d is a fun and silly horror comedy with the musk of cheese dripping all over it. It\u2019s a breezy good time with strong performances all around, and I enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s often completely ignored or dismissed in the annals of Jim Carrey\u2019s film career, but \u201cOnce Bitten\u201d is one of my favorite of the Carrey comedy works. It\u2019s not a masterpiece by any means, but it\u2019s one of Carrey\u2019s most restrained roles, where he\u2019s funny without being over the top or rubbery as he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,349,477,540,700,874,1033,1151],"class_list":["post-23056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-jim-carrey","tag-musical","tag-romance","tag-teen","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23058,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23056\/revisions\/23058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}