In this disappointing horror comedy, yuppie Nicolas Cage gets bitten by sexy vampire Jennifer Beals - or does he? When he doesn't turn into a vampire himself, he fakes it and becomes a mixed-up psycho wearing plastic fangs while prowling discos for victims. Falling deathlessly between horror comedy and a serious study of mental illness, director Robert Bierman's wretched farrago is hideously unfunny, witless and offensively stupid. Cage is so over the top as the pathetic loser that he's just ridiculous.

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.