Dark movie may frighten some kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Vampire cows provide comic relief and many of the scares in this respectfully dark yet optimistic story about a lonely child who befriends a vampire.

| Oct 21, 2009

The Little Vampire is hardly a children's classic, and it will doubtlessly be more at home after it hits the video shelves.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 24, 2006

Much of the film's success is down to the costume design, the novel SFX and the mildly foreboding atmosphere of the mist enshrouded Scottish countryside.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's an occupational hazard that you actually have to try to think about movies like this, which just get weirder and weirder the more you consider them.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 27, 2005

Lipnicki has learned how to make cute faces, but his delivery is formulaic and without emotion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Evocative of Tim Burton's work, the Scottish locations appear as a kind of ghoulish theme park full of ancient stately homes and mouldering, curse-ridden crypts.

| Dec 3, 2002

Excellent stuff -- it won't just be kids that love this film!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2002

A sprightly romp, funny, full of life lessons, and scary.

| Mar 24, 2002

A surprisingly enjoyable kid's movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 70/100 | Jul 19, 2001

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 11, 2001

The characters are engaging and so is the story.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2001

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Karey Kirkpatrick and Larry Wilson's script is very saccharine, meanders all over the place, has barely realized characters, and is boring in parts.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Successfully subverts traditional representations of the undead.

| Jan 1, 2000

The monsters in The Little Vampire are considerably toned down from the frightening undead of the Dracula myth. Now they're just the thing to entertain grade-school trick-or-treaters.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 1, 2000

A guaranteed crowd-pleaser for the whole family.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A surprisingly enjoyable film that its young target audience will love, while their parents will find it quite tolerable indeed.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

Some things just don't translate ... not with Lipnicki attached, at any rate. Stick with the books.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000