My Best Friend is a Vampire is a lame variant. It is a vampire comedy, although isn’t particularly funny and most certainly is not the remotest part scary. There is not much to the premise – indeed, becoming a vampire seems to present less consternation to hero Robert Sean Leonard than his being pursued by various strange people does. The film reaches a weak conclusion where nothing much happens and there is a happy-happy resolution where even the vampire hunter gets the bite put on him and comes to understand that vampires are just a persecuted minority. It’s all laid over with a bland and innocuous 80s pop soundtrack. Incidentally, the title’s first person clause is also inaccurate – the film is being narrated by the vampire himself, not his best friend.