Love Bite Online" was also mostly positive: "Add a generous tone of comedy to this naughty UK horror movie and what you've got are well-sketched characters and great plot potential that, unfortunately, just drags in the execution. There's a lot of side stories here that never get developed and left unresolved like stray threads. For all its faults though, "Love Bite" is as entertaining as its mix of supernatural and sex promises. Credit the young actors for this. There's genuine chemistry between Szohr and Speleers..." Reviewer Adam Cook wrote, ""Love Bite" is a risible British horror-comedy that spectacularly fails to deliver either
Love at First Bite top grossing films of 1979. In fact, it was one of the highest-grossing independent films for many years. However, critical reviews were mixed, and "Love at First Bite" has a 67% "Fresh" rating on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" described "Love" as "[a] coarse, delightful little movie with a bang-up cast and no pretensions at all," while Dave Kehr lamented the film's "hodgepodge of flat one-liners and graceless slapstick." "Variety" noted a "tendency to lurch from joke to joke" and observed that the story may be "silly," but Hamilton