The Little Vampire

Dark movie may frighten some kids.

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.

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.

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.

A guaranteed crowd-pleaser for the whole family.

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

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.

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

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