When a 350-year-old vampire meets a modern career woman, he is likely to learn that Love Bites. Dracula collides with Leopold in this comical look at a vampire out of his century.

Vampire Zachary Sims (Adam Ant) wakes, stumbles down the secret passageway, opens the fireplace and enters a home that he has never seen before. Somebody has changed his domicile! He heads to his bed, climbs in and comes face-to-face with a modern, liberated, aggressive career woman named Kendall Gordon (Kimberly Foster). He learns that he has been asleep for 100 years.

Zachary wants to become human again. He and Kendall fall in love. His vampire lover and creator, Nerissa (Michelle Forbes) shows up and demands his return, while Kendall's former boyfriend, Dwight (Roger Rose) tries to win her back, gives Zachary a job, and hires an investigator to dig up the dirt on Zachary.

The problem: the more Zachary becomes a 1990s man, the less he appeals to Kendall.

Love Bites is an adorable love story with lots of extras thrown in. It has humor, adventure, drama and some really cool dancing.

The acting is quite believable, but Michelle Forbes seems to put something extra into her character. She shines as Nerissa, exuding sensuality, power, femininity and danger in almost equal proportions.

Everything about this film is satisfactory. It is not a superior film, but there is nothing about it that you actually fault. The story develops well and progresses steadily toward the end with no lulls or abrupt jumps or shifts. The subplots work into the plot quite well and everything is brought back to the point of stasis in the end.

I enjoyed Love Bites, even though I am not a big fan of love stories. This one had enough drama and adventure thrown in to create a pleasurable movie experience. It is a keeper, in spite of being a love story; but there is no horror in this vampire story.