On Location: My Best Friend Is a Vampire Traditional Cache
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On Location: My Best Friend Is a Vampire
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This cache commemorates an eminently forgettable coming of age movie filmed in Houston. The main claim to fame of My Best Friend Is a Vampire is that it stared the young Robert Sean Leonard as a cute, lovable and romantically awkward teen who becomes a vampire. Leonard is better known as the cute, lovable and romantically awkward Dr. James Wilson on the TV series House MD. While not really a bad movie as vampire comedies go, it isn’t particularly funny either. It was aimed at a target market of not to discerning teens in 1987 so it is full of cliches, 20 year old cultural stereotypes and predictable plot lines. Still it was better than Twilight.
Most of the movie was filmed indoors. The screen time shot outdoors is largely car chases, usually the result of a bumbling pair of vampire hunters mistakenly trying to kill the wrong person. Several chases occur downtown shot in a way that intentionally highlight the modern sculpture in the plazas surrounding many buildings, seen as the cars screech around the corners. Of course one of these turns goes awry resulting in the destruction of a faux sculpture.
The placement of the cache is the result of a car chase that leaves downtown along Allen Parkway and disappears after a curve in the road just past Waugh Drive. As a police radio announces the chase on Allen Parkway the cars turn up racing down Richmond Avenue some 8 miles away. The chase ended in a humorously improbable crash in front of this newly developed shopping center, still mostly empty. The camera angles assure you get a picture of the signs for the Safeway that used to be here and for the Stop and Go, now a Valero, showing a price of $0.58 for a gallon of gas. However, being a teen movie, the action picked up from there when the protagonist and his girlfriend steal a police car. It wouldn't really be a spoiler to tell what happened next, because it was quite obvious to anyone watching the film, but from this point I just used the fast forward to get to the end.
The movie is available as an instant watch from Netflix if you have a fondness for campy films. Just don't waste one of your selections to rent the disk.
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