the girl who plays Darla is a horrible actor

All I know is Kathy Bates played Darla's mom in the movie and she was skinny.Two years later in "Misery'she was fat. She really blew up.

I agree that she does remind me of Molly Ringwald character in PRETTY IN PINK. She even dressed the same style clothes. I do not think she was bad in this film. The movie was a cheesy 80's teen comedy similar to ONCE BITTEN and to a slimmer strectch FRIGHT NIGHT. I just took it as a good time-killer when nothing else is on televison to watch. The one actor that really had me laugh was the vampire hunter and his assistant (somewhat like Abbott and Costello). I just take this as a comedy movie that it is.

Yeah-movie would have been better if she decided to I don't know...take acting lessons?

I didn't do it!

Of course it was ridiculous. As everyone's said, the plot was plainly ridiculous--it was more than comfortable with the various plot-holes and tainted acting.

If you'd like to see Pollak actually act, she did a fair job in Dark Side of The Moon. (Which, incidentally, is another movie which has two release dates... it was filmed in '88, but due to the civil unrest in the country it was shot in, the footage was lost until the 90's... it was released finally on DVD in '97 I think. The only reason it ever got released is because the star of the film--who was a nobody at the time--was someone you might've heard of... Brad Pitt.)

OK, none too good an actress, but so attractive!
Haven't been able to find any info on her on the web, probably didn't get anywhere as an wannabee actress.

I felt the same way. Just a terrible performance.

"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...."
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