Teens Wanted in "Love Bite"
A fresh twist on the definitive monster comedy movie, “Love Bite” is about to let loose its fangs to prey on the flesh of young and healthy teenage boys in the sleepy small town of Rainmouth. Starring Ed Speelers (“Eragon”) and Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl,” “The Internship”), “Love Bite” finds Jamie (Speelers) along with his teenage friends living in their putrescent seaside town looking for more opportunities to get laid. But in a town in which everyone knows everyone else, that’s easier said than done.
Things for Jamie have a habit of getting
complicated. So when he meets Juliana (Szohr) – a smart, funny and absurdly
beautiful girl from out of town – things quickly get, well, complicated. Jamie starts to believe that Juliana might
be a werewolf since she arrived at the same time several of his mates started
to disappear. All Jamie knows is that
werewolves target virgins, which, he thinks, is probably the only reason she’s
interested in him.
As the next full moon nears, relations
with Jamie and Juliana start to hot up.
By the time they are ready to make things physical, the huge round moon
is peeping through the clouds. Before
he can finally let the beast out of its cage, Jamie has to learn that it’s time
to stretch his legs and get out of town for good.
For director Andy De Emmony, the
attraction to the script was instant. “I come from a background as a sculptor,
doing lots of animatronics and that sort of thing,” he explains. “And plus I've
done a lot of comedy, so being able to bring those two together was really the
appeal.” He collaborated with Cole to revise the script, he says.
“From my point of view, the humor was there already, but it was important that
we clarified the world we're in and established the rules of the werewolves.”
With an overabundance of werewolf
stories on the market, De Emmony saw an opportunity to give the beast a comic
motivation – it preys on virginity, the very thing this film's cast of hormonal
teens are especially keen to lose. “I always think it's slightly grey, when you
see werewolves in other things, what their agenda is,” De Emmony laughs. “The
quest to lose your virginity is there in most teenage boys anyway, and they
don't even have the pressure of a battle for survival!”
“Love Bite” opens very soon this
November in theaters from Axinite Digicinema, Inc.
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