Trivia / Love at First Bite

• Billing Displacement: The Jeffersons was a hit show when the movie came out, so Isabel Sanford and Sherman Helmsley were prominently featured on the poster even though their appearances are just brief cameos.
• Career Resurrection: This film marked the breakthrough comedy performance of George Hamilton, which helped rejuvenate his career.
• Dueling Movies:
  • This is one of five Dracula movies released in 1979, the other four being Dracula (1979), Nosferatu the Vampyre, Nocturna, and Dracula Blows His Cool.
  • It was also released in the same year as Vlad Tepes, a Romanian film concerning the historical figure of the Count.
  • It was also released in the same year of two other vampire-related films, Thirst (1979) and 'Salem's Lot.
• Edited for Syndication: The movie is well known for its signature song played during the disco sequence, the 1978 disco classic "I Love the Nightlife" sung by Alicia Bridges. Due to licensing issues, the song was removed from most TV broadcasts and later home media releases, and was replaced by a cover version of "The Man That I Love". Despite this, the Bridges song is still listed during the end credits.^note  It is also heard on the original trailer included on the 2005 DVD release by MGM in which it was excerpted no less than three times. The song was eventually restored for the 2015 Blu-ray release by Shout! Factory, as part of a double feature with the 1985 film Once Bitten.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: As mentioned above, the version of the film in which "I Love the Nightlife" is played during the disco sequence had not been released on home media since the 1981 and 1984 VHS releases by Warner Home Video, having been replaced since the 1988 Warner Home Video VHS release by a cover version of "The Man That I Love" due to licensing issues. That same version was carried over to the 1993 Orion Home Video VHS release and the 2005 DVD release by MGM. Averted in 2015, when the original version of the film was released on Blu-ray by Shout! Factory as part of a double feature with the 1985 film Once Bitten.
• Stillborn Franchise: A sequel, entitled Matrimony: Love at Second Bite, was considered but never materialized. It would've been about the old school work of the 1940s Bela Lugosi Dracula against The Twilight Saga fandom with humor.

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