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The Little Vampire 3D
A vampire holding a girl flys over a castle, with a flying cow.
Dutch theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Claus [de]
Karsten Kiilerich
Written byScript:
Richard Claus
Larry Wilson[1]
Produced byRichard Claus
Chris Brouwer
Edited byJob ter Burg
Music byVidjay Beerepoot
Production
companies
First Look
Comet Film
A. Film
Distributed by
Release date
  • 5 October 2017 (2017-10-05) (Netherlands)
Running time
82 minutes[2]
CountriesNetherlands
Germany
Denmark
LanguagesDutch
English
Budget$10 million[3]
Box office$13.8 million[4]

The Little Vampire 3D (Dutch: De Kleine Vampier 3D) also known as The Little Vampire, is a 2017 3D animated vampire film directed by Richard Claus [de] and Karsten Kiilerich, loosely based on the 2000 live-action film of the same name and based on the characters of the children's book series of the same name by German writer Angela Sommer-Bodenburg.[5][6]

Plot

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While on holiday with his parents, 13-years old Tony Thompson meets Rudolph Sackville-Bagg, a vampire. Tony has had nightmares about vampires, and Rudi has been brought up to think of all mortals as heartless killers - but they become friends due to childish curiosity and a lack of anybody else their equivalent age.

Rudi's clan have been tracked by Vampire hunter Rookery and with the exception of his parents and sister Anna are all imprisoned in a crypt which Rookery intends on blowing up to kill them all. Tony is captured by Rookery, but manages to outwit them and escape, having now learned of their plan he decides to try and stop him. Anna enchants Tony's parents, allowing the vampires to use the Thompson's caravan to travel to the crypt during daylight hours while Rudi and Tony fly ahead. They spot Rookery and Tony manages to steal his unique spanner that will allow him to undo the bolts on the crypt prison. While trying to unlock the crypt Rookery and his sidekick Maney ambush him but he is saved by the timely arrival of Gregory - Rudi's older brother - who has escaped the crypt through a crack in the ceiling. Together they defeat both Rookery and Maney, but it is implied that Maney has had enough of Rookery's abuse and leaves him to the vampires. The clan escape the crypt, but the bomb still goes off destroying it, leaving the clan nowhere to live or stay during daylight hours. Tony and Rudi suggest that the vampires check in to the Bed and breakfast the Thompsons were staying at at the beginning of the film, much to the B&B owner's horror.

Cast

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Production

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The film is a Dutch-German-Danish co-production by First Look, Comet Film and A. Film in association with Cool Beans, Telescreen and Rothkirch Cartoon Film. While much of the film´s animation was done at A. Film, Studio Rakete [7] and Ambient Entertainment handled some parts of the animation and character modeling alongside the final result for the film, as the visual effects, compositing, stereoscopics and color grading are handled by Storm Post Production. [5]

The United Kingdom theatrical and DVD versions were cut by 29 seconds in order to remove a scene involving electricity in order to achieve a U rating from the BBFC.[2] Jim Carter and Alice Krige reprised their roles from the 2000 live-action adaptation of The Little Vampire.

Release

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The film had its world premiere in the Netherlands on 5 October 2017. It was released in Germany, Denmark and Italy on 26 October,[8] and in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2018. It received 19,767 admissions in Danish cinemas,[9] and had a worldwide gross of $13,808,590.[4]

The film received generally negative reviews from critics,[6][10][11] and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a score of 14% based on 14 critical reviews, indicating a "rotten" score.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ Wolfe, Jennifer (16 May 2014) CMG Brings 'The Little Vampire' to Cannes. Animation World Network. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 The Little Vampire at the British Board of Film Classification – bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "The Little Vampire 3D (2017)". IMDb. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
  4. 1 2 The Little Vampire 3D Archived 2021-06-29 at the Wayback Machine at Box Office Mojo, an IMDb company. Amazon. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  5. 1 2 The Little Vampire 3D. Cinema Management Group (CMG). Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  6. 1 2 McCahill, Mike (25 May 2018) The Little Vampire review – toothless family fare. The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Wolfe, Jennifer (16 May 2014) CMG Brings 'The Little Vampire' to Cannes. Animation World Network. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  8. ↑ Leone, Lilly (26 October 2017) Vampiretto, film al cinema ad Halloween: trama, recensione e curiosità Archived 2021-06-29 at the Wayback Machine. (in Italian). Cube Magazine. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Facts and Figures 2018 Archived 2021-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, April 2018. Danish Film Institute. p. 6. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  10. ↑ Macnab, Geoffrey (23 May 2018) The Little Vampire review: anaemic entertainment with no bite. The Independent. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  11. ↑ The Little Vampire at Common Sense Media. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  12. ↑ The Little Vampire 3D at Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
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