The Little Vampire

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Jordan L. @scream45 Jan 21 I loved this movie as a kid one of my favorite Halloween movies right next to the Wizard of Oz and Hocus Pocus one of my favorite Halloween movies ever of all time See more The Wandering D @RT87120553 Dec 27 They just don't make kids movies full of magic the way they used to. What an adorable movie about kids being kids, but a kid being a good kid. See more Stephen C @bob25009 Oct 30 Success in 1 hour and 37 minutes. See more Carlie G @RT60678874 Oct 16 Perfect family movie to get in the spirit of Halloween. Appropriate for all ages, but might be a little frightful for children under 5. Overall, I thought the plot was entertaining, costumes were fun, and I could swear that the Cullen family in the Twilight Saga is loosely based off of the characters in this movie. Watch this movie as a kid and revisited it at age 30, and still thoroughly enjoyed it. See more Nele H @RT87288287 01/14/2025 I’m quite surprised at the mediocre rating of this film. “The Little Vampire” has been with me since my childhood, and, at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, this is a truly unique kids’ movie. It’s not profound or morally complex. But it’s incredibly charming, unabashedly silly, unexpectedly scary, and utterly, gleefully bonkers. The film performs some spectacular tonal acrobatics, jumping effortlessly from the dark and tragic history of its hauntingly beautiful vampires to the silly shenanigans of the present, complete with flying vampire cows and occasional cartoonish sound effects. It’s surprising, but never whiplash-inducing. As it goes on, the action becomes increasingly chaotic, ending in a delightfully daft and, ultimately, emotional climax. The costume design is gorgeous too. The film gives us wonderfully eerie vampires with an Elizabethan flair to replace the more commonplace Victorian one. Their clothes are frayed and tattered and yet all the more impressive for it. On the other hand, you have the mad dieselpunk aesthetic of the vampire hunter and his cluttered factory of a truck, both lurching, steaming and smoking their ways through the film respectively. In terms of acting, there isn’t a single phoned-in performance. Jonathan Lipnicki is adorable as Tony Thompson, the movie’s incredibly diminutive protagonist with the guts of ten grown men. Tony’s improbable displays of Pippi Longstocking-like courage are both endearing and hilarious, especially when his guts don’t match his physical strength (picture this tiny child getting ready to throw hands at a 6-foot-tall vampire hunter). Rollo Weeks as Rudolph is well-spoken and a little wooden at times, but it perfectly fits his role as a 300-year-old boy rediscovering childhood for the first time. He is also surprisingly menacing at his first appearance. Richard E. Grant and Alice Krige, who play Rudolph’s parents, were both born to be vampires. Grant especially makes the best of what might have been a one-dimensional role as the stern, strict Frederick Sackville-Bagg. He is elegant and intimidating, eccentric and, at times, unexpectedly funny (like chomping his jaws like a crocodile when in the vicinity of a biteable human). And let’s all give a big hand to Jim Carter, who absolutely kills it as the gleeful vampire hunter Rookery, and who, to my knowledge, has never again played a role this wild. Like the movie as a whole, he flips effortlessly between funny and threatening – and his confusion at being thwarted by a tiny kid leads to some truly hilarious reactions. So, if you want an unusual vampire movie with a wicked sense of humour, this is the film for you. And for the love of Dracula, don’t confuse it with the 2017 animated film, whose attempt to resurrect the source material led to a disaster of Frankensteinian proportions. See more Max K @RT46757557 11/03/2024 I was looking on a new platform I got called hoopla install the movie, the little vampire, I remember loving this movie as a kid decided to watch it again. Wow what did I just watch? I wish I can get the One and a half hour back, I spent watching this movie. See more Read all reviews

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