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Vampire's Kiss
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
Release : | 1988 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Hemdale Film Corporation, Magellan Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Nicolas Cage María Conchita Alonso Jennifer Beals Elizabeth Ashley Kasi Lemmons |
Genre : | Horror Comedy |
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Beautiful, moving film.
Am i the only one who thinks........Average?
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
The acting in this movie is really good.
The beginning of this movie was like a slow burning of the eyes and ears. Nicholas Cage's character is strange, but misses the mark when it comes to actual comedy. Fortunately, if you can sit through the first three-quarters of the movie, which consist mostly of Nicholas Cage getting angry at his assistant over missing files, then you might just get to see the somewhat redeemable ending.
This is one of those movies that should have been 'so bad it's good', but its use of needless sexual violence and anti-female agenda was so disgusting that it failed in that. Nicolas Cage's overracting could have been beautiful and utterly ridiculous until the point where he reveals he raped his secretary for no apparent reason and was therefore trying to kill himself. This is not redemption, this was over the top and unnecessary. 0/10, would never recommend.
Wow! The opening credits stink of a bad after school special.Interracial. How progressive.Foreign Distribution? How strange.. a hot dog cart.Mortal combat with a bat? This movie is horrible.Uninterested old lady in the bathroom is now very concerned.Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you kill me.Eccentric? He's a nut.How dramatic! A light! This is not a dark comedy, but a dark tragedy.Vampires eat cockroaches? Now we have to suffer through an "action" scene of walking quickly down several flights of stairs, including "interesting" shots of hands touching the bannister.I wish they weren't planks either, then I would get the remaining 25 minutes back to spend in a more fruitful manner, like mismatching my socks.Another concerned older lady.OMG the plastic teeth have taken this movie to a new low.No bouncer? No matter what it is there is always someone into it.Dramatic emotions quickly followed by crappy 80s dance.That was a very quick nighttime.Blissfully it is over.
WOW..... is all I can say about Vampire's Kiss. Although it pains me to admit this, up until a month ago, I had never seen this film before. But recently I've been following a checklist/document of movies that are highly acclaimed, and I've been ticking off each one as I see them and then ranking them accordingly. This film was on there. It's safe for me to say that Vampire's Kiss has quite possibly nudged its way into my top 10 favourite movies, or, at the VERY LEAST, my top 20.It is very infrequent for me to see a film and then ruminate upon it for hours afterwards. Since last month when I first saw it, I've sort of developed a sick obsession with it. To be honest, when I "first" saw it and the end credits began rolling, I wasn't entirely sure if I enjoyed what I just watched. I just felt a bizarre air and a little confused, but I had goosebumps! Then I watched it a second time the very next day.Then a third time.I am now thoroughly convinced that Nicolas Cage has earned his stripes to be ranked amongst one of the best actors of all time, with the likes of Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. This movie is an exercise in extremely talented acting - a merciless onslaught of maniacal delusions. I don't attest that I empathize nor sympathize with our protagonist (if you can even call him that!), but I don't think that was the intention of the film.Rather, I can't help but feel like this movie was a very clever way to incorporate quirkiness and offbeat humour to stave off the negative stereotypes about a garden variety rom-com. It almost reeks a little bit of a Coen-esque scent.As such, don't expect a traditional narrative here - or even a narrative dealing in vampires in general! You'll be sorely disappointed if you do. Sit back, relax, and take it in as it proceeds. Go with the flow and you'll garner much more from this film than you otherwise would. What makes me love films like these is that it triggers something new in my film-watching technique that wasn't already there. I begin to appreciate new ways in which messages can be conveyed through film and it really opens my eyes to different types of films; it might even make me second-guess past films I hated... in a new light! The quotes, the images of what was seen - all these things continue to pop into my head from time to time. A movie that sticks with you in such a way MUST have some merit, right? This movie succeeds on those fronts.To dissect this film's point would be as futile as telling an infant to stop crying at the snap of your fingers, but if you asked me for my perspective, I would have to surmise that it focuses on how discouraged and heartbroken men can become after several negative dating episodes and how they thusly feel exploited by women in the process. Perhaps Cage is playing the part of a character with deep mental imprisonments who see situations in a jaded light - his past failures begin to mold his attitude into a monstrous hatred towards women.Or it might not have any intrinsic meaning whatsoever other than to be quirky for quirkiness' sake. Either way, I can only concede that this acting tour-de-force was absolutely extraordinary. My advice is that if you don't quite like this movie after the first viewing, put it on hold for awhile and let it sink in over the coming days. If you're destined to watch it a second time, you'll know it!