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Dwight Putnum (Roger Rose) has just asked Kendall Gordon (Kimberly Foster) for the 10th time to marry him, but Kendall is still unwilling to commit. She has this idea that the perfect man for her is still out there. Following a tumultuous thunderstorm, 330-year-old vampire Zachary Simms (Adam Ant) is awakened in the crypt under Kendall's fireplace. When the two first meet, it isn't exactly love at first sight, but Zachary decides to hang around in order to 'rehumanize', and it doesn't take long before Zachary and Kendall become a twosome...until Zachary's maker Nerissa (Michelle Forbes) shows up.

Love Bites, also known as The Reluctant Vampire, is based on a play by American writer Malcolm Marmorstein, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film.

Zachary explains to Kendall that he was born in England in 1660 and moved to Boston in 1675. In 1688, he was bitten by Nerissa, and they lived together for 100 years before she suddenly decided to run off with a Washington politician. Zachary pined for Nerissa for the next 100 years and finally decided to sleep it off. Unfortunately, he forgot to wake up until another 100 years had passed, and it was now the 1990s.

It looks like Zachary is about to be defanged. Dwight wants his business back. Kendall says Zachary was more human when he was a vampire and wants him out of her life. Nerissa says that the only solution is to 'revamp' him, so she gets the process started by biting him on the neck. Dwight takes back his business, setting up Zachary as a consultant with a perpetual income that will make him rich for centuries. Kendall informs Zachary that she is pregnant with his baby and agrees to allow him to 'vampirize' her when the baby is old enough to understand. Nerissa agrees to become the baby's godmother and buy her pretty dresses or take her to Mets nightgames. In the final scene, while discussing their future, Kendall dons a black overcoat, jumps on the bed, and begins to flap her 'wings' like a bat. Zachary kisses her.