The Little Vampire (2000)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 30
The Little Vampire can't seem to find the right pitch, with its muddled, jumpy script and badly executed mix of cuteness and fright.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 11
The Little Vampire can't seem to find the right pitch, with its muddled, jumpy script and badly executed mix of cuteness and fright.
liked it
Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 51,991
Movie Info
Nine-year-old Tony (Jerry Maguire's Jonathan Lipnicki) has just moved with his parents (Tommy Hinkley and Pamela Gidley) to a small town in the Scottish Highlands, where his father is overseeing the building of a golf course for old squire Lord McAshton (John Wood). Tony is picked on by his new classmates and starts dreaming about vampires at night, until one fine evening his dreams seem to summon Rudolph (Rollo Weeks), an aristocratic, wee vampire. Rudolph is among the vegetarian variety of
Watch It Now
Cast
-
Jonathan Lipnicki
Tony Thompson -
Richard E. Grant
Frederick -
Jim Carter
Rookery -
Alice Krige
Freda -
John Wood
Lord McAshton -
Pam Gidley
Dottie Thompson -
Tommy Hinkley
Bob Thompson -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ADVERTISEMENT
All Critics (67) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (30) | DVD (8)
Vampire cows provide comic relief and many of the scares in this respectfully dark yet optimistic story about a lonely child who befriends a vampire.
Top CriticMuch of the film's success is down to the costume design, the novel SFX and the mildly foreboding atmosphere of the mist enshrouded Scottish countryside.
The film reminds us that Harry Potter isn't the whole story in children's literature, reversing the usual vampire movie cliches and advancing a few morals about tolerating differences.
For adults, the film will drag in spots, but it's filled with all those values you hope to instill in your children.
It offers imagination and humor and a touch of goose bumps.
A nightmare of blandness.
Dark movie may frighten some kids.
The Little Vampire is hardly a children's classic, and it will doubtlessly be more at home after it hits the video shelves.
It's an occupational hazard that you actually have to try to think about movies like this, which just get weirder and weirder the more you consider them.
Lipnicki has learned how to make cute faces, but his delivery is formulaic and without emotion.
Evocative of Tim Burton's work, the Scottish locations appear as a kind of ghoulish theme park full of ancient stately homes and mouldering, curse-ridden crypts.
Excellent stuff -- it won't just be kids that love this film!
A sprightly romp, funny, full of life lessons, and scary.
A surprisingly enjoyable kid's movie.
The characters are engaging and so is the story.
A truly awful film that will frighten little children and drive parents mad with boredom.
The monsters in The Little Vampire are considerably toned down from the frightening undead of the Dracula myth. Now they're just the thing to entertain grade-school trick-or-treaters.
Several children in the audience at the screening I attended were visibly upset.
This chomper is too kid-comedy-ish to cater to adults and a tad too scary for the little ones.
An unimaginative, low-budget feature that you would expect to be released as a direct-to-TV movie on a kids' cable network.
Not to put a stake through the heart of The Little Vampire, but if little Lipnicki had more acting talent to go with his adorability, it might be a better movie.
Nigel Clarke and Michael Csányi-Wills' turgid score complements Edel's squatty direction, and Lipnicki overwhelms the other cast members with his nauseating cutesiness.
Audience Reviews for The Little Vampire
Super Reviewer
Overall, it's a children's film which an adult will likely be able to tolerate watching with them. Whether or not the adult will actually like it depends on the adult.
Super Reviewer
Discussion Forum
There are no discussion threads for The Little Vampire yet.
What's Hot On RT
John Goodman's Best Movies
Woody Allen in San Francisco
Naomi Watts stars as Princess Di
Pictures from a zombie nation
Fresh Links
Featured
Movie: ID: 10259 Title: The Little Vampire Release Date: 2000-10-27 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 2 Status: 1
Family Movie Mistakes
Even the best family entertainment experiences a few blunders now and then...
The Looks of Johnny Depp
To celebrate the star's birthday, BuzzSugar looks at the many faces of Johnny Depp.
10 Egregious Product Placements
Rolling Stone wonders if The Internship goes too far... then provides 10 examples of movies that did.
10 Bad Movies That Look Great
Sometimes even terrible movies can be beautiful; here are 10 of them, from HitFix.
50 Most Classic Movie Moms
In celebration of Mother's Day, TimeOut offers up 50 iconic matriarchs from the big screen.
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter!
Spice up your feed with hourly Tomatometer updates!
Featured on RT
- James Gandolfini: 1961-2013 9
- Total Recall: John Goodman's Best Movies 28
- In Pictures: Zombie Nation! 0
- Video Interviews with Cast & Crew of Monsters University 0
- Digital Multiplex: 21 & Over, Quartet, and More 3
- RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Jack the Giant Slayer and Quartet 23
- Box Office Guru Wrapup: Man of Steel Sets June Record 110
Top Headlines
-
Has Brad Pitt Ever Made a Successful Blockbuster?
1
-
Pacific Rim Set Visit Report
0
-
Shailene Woodley Cut from Amazing Spider-Man 2
0
-
Star Wars Casting Breakdown Reportedly Leaks
0
-
Universal Picks Up Dumb and Dumber To
0
-
Sam Taylor-Johnson Directing Fifty Shades of Grey
0
-
The Logan's Run Remake Has a New Writer
1
Foreign Titles
- Der kleine Vampir (DE)
- Le Petit Vampire (FR)
