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.
​Would you like to know more about the cast, or perhaps other vampire-themed comedies from the 1990s?
