The Little Vampire

2000 95 min ★ 7.0 Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.

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Cast

Jonathan Lipnicki

Tony Thompson

Richard E. Grant

Frederick Sackville-Bagg

Jim Carter

Rookery

Alice Krige

Freda Sackville-Bagg

Rollo Weeks

Rudolph Sackville-Bagg

Anna Popplewell

Anna Sackville-Bagg

Pamela Gidley

Dottie Thompson

Tommy Hinkley

Bob Thompson

Dean Cook

Gregory Sackville-Bagg

Iain De Caestecker

Nigel

Details

Director

Uli Edel

Tagline

"They're not just best friends, they're blood brothers."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$35,000,000

Revenue

$27,965,865

Production

New Line Cinema, Stonewood Communications, Cometstone Pictures, Comet Film

Reviews

C

CinemaSerf

October 2, 2026

★ 7/10

With his family just moved from urban America to rural Scotland, the young "Tony" (Jonathan Lipnicki) is naturally a bit discombobulated. It doesn't help that he keeps dreaming of vampires and both his parents and his fellow pupils at school think he's maybe a bit bonkers. Well guess who is going to have the last laugh when he meets "Rudolph" (Rollo Weeks) who is (quite literally) hanging around i...