The Little Vampire 3D

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The Little Vampire 3D
Directed byRichard Claus
Karsten Kiilerich
Written byScript:
Richard Claus
Larry Wilson [1]
Produced byRichard Claus
Chris Brouwer
Music byVidjay Beerepoot
Production
companies
Storm Post Production
A. Film
Ambient Entertainment [2]
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • 5 October 2017 (2017-10-05)(Netherlands)
Running time
82 minutes [3]
CountriesNetherlands
Germany
Denmark
LanguagesEnglish
Dutch
German
Danish
Budget$10 million [4]
Box office$13.8 million [5]

The Little Vampire 3D, also known as The Little Vampire, is a 2017 3D animated vampire film directed by Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich, loosely based on the 2000 live-action film of the same name and based on the characters of the children's book series of the same name by German writer Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. [2] [6]

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Cast

Jim Carter and Alice Krige reprised their roles from the 2000 live-action adaptation of The Little Vampire.

Release

The film had its world premiere in the Netherlands on 5 October 2017. It was released in Germany, Denmark and Italy on 26 October, [7] and in the UK on 25 May 2018. It received 19,767 admissions in Danish cinemas, [8] and had a worldwide gross of $13,808,590. [5] The UK theatrical and DVD versions were cut by 29 seconds in order to remove a scene involving electricity in order to achieve a U rating from the BBFC. [3]

The film received generally negative reviews from critics, [6] [9] [10] and on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a score of 14% based on 14 critical reviews, indicating a "rotten" score. [11]

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