Release Date: Mar 6, 2001 Region: 1 Runtime: 94 mins Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) Standard 1.33:1 Color
Subtitles: English Packaging: Keep Case Rating: PG Features:
Three Interactive Kid-Friendly Games Hilarious Vampire And Monster Jokes Easy-to-Make Recipes for Spooky Snacks Animated Menus DVD-ROM Features: Original Theatrical Website Ability to Jump From the Script to the Scene in the Movie Cool Flying Vampire Cow Screensaver
Fresh from Stuart Little, young Jonathan Lipnicki carries on his pint-sized shoulders his every scene in The Little Vampire as eight-year-old Tony, befriender of vampires. The Scottish setting lends itself nicely to spookiness, too. A continent away from his native California, Tony's having a tough time making new friends when a band of vagabond vampires enters his life through his bedroom window. The encounter seems pure coincidence at first, but then the scary truth surfaces: Tony, though he's not a vampire himself, has "sympathy for our kind", as the dad of the bat-linked brood puts it. Visions of vampire happenings from generations past invade the kid's consciousness, and they hold the key to the clan's current gypsy-like predicament. Through his clairvoyance and, by extension, the discovery of a long-lost amulet, the mostly benevolent bloodsuckers are able to reclaim their rightful status as proper cave-dwellers in their homeland. Clueless-parent predicaments abound--Tony's mum and dad smirk at their son's vampire-obsessed imagination until the cape-draped heads of the clan drop by for a visit--and viewers of around Tony's age will find the gang's adventures eluding a bumbling vampire hunter genuinely chuckle worthy. --Tammy La Gorce