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Released
1985 · FILM

Once Bitten

A naive high‑schooler desperate to lose his virginity becomes the target of a seductive 400‑year‑old countess who must turn a virgin before Halloween, forcing him to fight for his life and his future love.

Mark Kendall just found out his one-night stand has been around for centuries.

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
ComedyHorror

Synopsis

Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend prefers to wait. A 400-year-old vampire Countess, who needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween to maintain her youthful appearance, discovers Mark and disrupts his life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Marc GrossmanShot by Adam GreenbergScored by John Du PrezDesigned by Gene Rudolf

Box Office

1985 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 3.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$3.2M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.0M 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.3M43% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,095 theaters

Also known as

  • Einmal beißen bittede
  • Mordiscos peligrososes
  • Vampire Foreverfr
  • Se ti mordo... sei mioit

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