This movie is a classic. It’s a movie we watched as kids and one day it resurfaced in my memory. I couldn’t even remember the name at the time, but I’m so glad I found it here. I was able to enjoy this movie with my 4-year-old niece (maybe a little bit too scary for her, but she still loved it) and my 10-year-old brother.

I remembered this movie when talking to my boyfriend and I made him sit down to watch this with me. He thought it was the corniest thing ever but it was one of my childhood favs so he doesn't get an opinion 😂

My kids know of this movie because of the Netflix cartoon...I told them about the original and they didn't believe me...I purchased it and we all watched it and they can't stop watching it!

Happy to able to rent this movie and watch it with my kids.

Love this movie

Poor 7 year-old Tony Thompson. He's moved from America to Scotland with his Mom and Dad with his Dad's new job. He's being bullied by Nigel and Flint McCashton, and hasn't made any friends. Part of the problem is that he insists on insisting that vampires are real.

Take his teacher's class presentation: "On Saturday night, we'll be able to see the comet [Attamon] in conjunction with the moon, for the first time in 300 years. And then..."
Tony interrupts, "... and then a beam of light comes from the moon."
Classmates giggle as the teacher says, "As usual, our American friend is full of stories. What makes you say that?"
Tony: "I dreamt it.... I've dreamt it every night since I've been here. And there's a gathering."
Teacher: "A gathering of what?"
Tony: "A gathering of vampires.... I really saw it! The comet, the beam of light, the vampires and the vampire hunter."
This earns Tony a seat in the hall, disgraced and further fodder for the bullies. As a matter of fact, that night Tony's parents attend a formal party at the McCashton castle. Nigel and Flint tell Tony's parents, "Tony is our favorite plaything."

While his parents are at McCashton's party, Tony is home with a baby sitter. He's dressed as a vampire, complete with paper fangs and ketchup blood. What he doesn't know is that down the road, a man named Rookery is warming up his truck. No ordinary truck, it has floodlights and shovels, winches and radar. On the side is the writing:
Vampkill Ltd.
International Vampyrex Timberens

Rookery spies a vampire bat and takes chase. The exhausted bat takes refuge in Tony's bedroom. He turns into his humanoid form of Rudolph, exhausted, and asks Tony, "Do you know where I can get a cow?"

That night the friendship between the 7 year-old mortal and the eternally 9 year-old vampire is cemented. First, as Tony saves Rudolph by finding him a cow. And second, when Rudolph saves Tony from Rookery, who thinks Tony is a vampire also - well, Tony did still have his vampire cape on.

This great family movie was released in 2000. Like the best of family movies, it has humor for all ages. There are funny scenes, for example, with vampire cows and their puzzled farmer, and a hapless cemetery attendant. The vampire hunter is a hoot. And it turns out that there's a logical reason why Tony has had vampire nightmares since his first night in their house. (And what a house - I want a tower with a turret, too!)

You have the option to view "The Little Vampire" in Full Screen or Widescreen. Audio is available in 5.1 Surroundsound or Stereo Surroundsound. English subtitles are available.

Special Features:
1. Games (all played with your TV remote) The three games are geared for younger children:
--A. Graveyard Golf. Chose which direction to hit the golf ball to get it into the hole. You'll be stymied by funny things like a flying vampire cow. No skill involved, it's just guessing.
--B. Find the Amulet. Enter a maze and select directional arrows to find your way to the amulet in the middle.
--C. Mix & Match. Mix and match clothing styles for three characters
2. Trailer. The theatrical trailer for "The Little Vampire"
3. Cast & Crew. Filmography of primary actors and the director. Jim Carter, who plays the vampire hunter, Rookery, is well known today as Mr. Carson, the Downton Abbey butler. Rookery is a totally different and hilarious character.
4. Jokes and Recipes. There's a total of 58 jokes and riddles with a monster theme.
--A. Jokes. Example: What did the teacher say to Dracula after he failed his math test?
Answer: Can't you count Dracula?
--B. More Jokes. Example: Why did the mummy call the doctor?
Answer: Because he was coffin.
--C. Recipes. Five recipes for Caramel Apples, Fudgy Bat Cookies, Jack-O-Lantern Pie, Blue Slime and Vampire's Blood Shake

Happy Reader

The little vampire is about a third grader named Tony who has a tough time fitting in with the rest of the students because of his obsessions with vampires. He has been getting dreams about them and found them to be fun to draw and to imitate. The boys in his class like to pick on him and treat him like dirt because they find him to be weird. His parents don't believe him about the kids being bullies. The kids who are bullies are being played out as nice kids to their parents who are oblivious to the things they've stupidly said. Rudolph gets run in by a vampire slayer and needs to find a place to rest and to drink blood to restore his energy. He falls into Tony's chimney thinking that Tony is his brother or a fellow vampire. He discovers that Tony is a mortal and goes after him for his blood. Being too weak, he falls on the floor and Tony said he could help, if he wouldn't drink his blood. He agrees and took Rudolph to a farm to drink cow's blood. Ever since then, they became great friends and went to search for the amulet that Tony saw in his dream. The vampire slayer is behind their tales and with them all together, they manage to get it and Tony made the wish for all vampires to become mortal again.

The first thing I want to talk about the movie is first starting up the movie. The starting of the movie, there is a video clip of Tony and Rudolph playfully playing on a blimp. Soothing music is playing and soon Rudolph holds out his hand for Tony to hold on to while they take flight. I thought this is a great introduction to the DVD. It's comfortable to listen to and it makes you feel good watching it. Anyways, enough of that, the two boys fly outwards over Scotland and the DVD menus pop up. You get five selections to choose from. The selections from the DVD movie are: Scene Selections; Special Features; Play Movie and Audio Setup. The scene selection menu is to jump around in the movie quicker, so you can go back to that last scene you were in the middle of watching, but for some reason had to turn it off. Special features include games, the trailer, Cast and Crew, and Jokes and recipes. There are three games of which all suck. I didn't know what the heck I was doing when I was playing, but there are three games that are called: Graveyard golf, Find the amulet, and Mix and Match. For the Graveyard Golf game, you're supposed to pick a direction where you want the ball to go. There is no skill, just pick a random direction. There is like 5 rounds or something of this nonsense. Finding the amulet is the worse. It's like Graveyard Golf, where you have to pick a direction, but you have a ton of options and if you go the wrong way, a pop up on the whole screen says you went the wrong way, it gets very annoying. Once you find it, you'll feel like you just wasted your time. I felt that. Finally, the Mix and match game. Now, I thought this wasn't too bad. I found some amusement from cross dressing my characters, but I found it a little bit insulting to the movie. The second part to the Special Features is that you get to watch a trailer from the movie. Pretty cool, I guess. Cast and crew talks about each actor that played in this movie and what other movies they've been in. I was kind of hoping for a biography, but I guess this works too. The lamest thing about this is that they have all the actors' pictures who are a vampire upside down. The pictures weren't originally upside down. They just were goofing off because vampires usually hang upside down, BUT WHEN THEY SLEEP. It just looks stupid having it upside down. Finally, we have Jokes and Recipes, oh goodie. Some of the jokes are cheesy, but I thought a lot were entertaining. They've actually repeated some jokes in there and used the same answer for a couple of other jokes. For the recipes, they have caramel apples, fudgy bat cookies, jack-o-lantern pie, blue slime, and vampire's blood shake. Sounds great, right? I don't know. I never tried these before. Maybe I will when I get crazy on a Halloween night. The next part in the DVD menu is to play the movie. We get a selection from Full Screen to Widescreen. Well, it's 2011 and most of us have widescreen TVs, so of course we are going to choose the Widescreen format. But what is this? The widescreen format is just a stretched version of the full screen format? This can't be it showed screenshots of the differences between the two formats. Well, they lied to you. If you want to get the most out of this movie, choose full screen. They cropped out most parts of the frames in the movie, so you'll miss out on a lot of details. That's about it for the Playing Movie selection. What else is there? Enjoy! :) Now lastly there is Audio Setup. Here we get Dolby 5.1 surround sound in English or Dolby Surround Stereo in English. There is also an option to turn on subtitles, but of course it's only in English...nothing else? Great.

For this movie, I thought it was great when I was a kid. I bought it because I still liked it the same way when I was a kid. I also wanted a copy, so in case I do have kids down the road, I can show them this movie that I used to like. Kinda wished they had a blu-ray copy with the original theater version with better special features like interviews and the making of the movie, but what can ya do. Don't even remember, if this movie even came to theaters...

I don't really know why I like this movie. There are a lot of flaws in this movie along with the plot. It is mostly for kids who like vampires. I guess I like this movie because it keeps me entertained and I find it enjoyable. It's a cheap movie, so I got it.

Do I recommend this movie? Rent it on iTunes or somewhere else, first. Then decide to buy it. It got a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and I feel that is a well deserve score.

Always been one of my favorites!! Great for all ages!! Fun to watch...