I wasn't in the right mood when I saw this, so it took a long time for me to think 'urbane parody' instead of 'why is Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) such a screw-up.'  Most of this was due to a start that got most of its laughs from scenes of Charley ignoring his girlfriend Amy (Amanda Bearse) to spy on Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon), the vampire who has moved in next door.  The sight gags simply don't work very well and until the film actually develops some dialog it doesn't really shift from 'yet another clich' ridden horror film with a big cast' to 'Hey! That was cool.'