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Vampire’s Kiss Review

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.4640 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We watched Vampire’s Kiss on Vudu and it was a delightful window into the soul of one of the most impressive, interesting, and entertaining actors of our age, Nic Cage. https://youtu.be/PnoSxO_2ghQ Synopsis Publishing executive Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) is bitten by a woman and starts acting erratically. Believing that he is being controlled by his vampire mistress puts a great deal of stress and pressure on Peter. As he deals with the stress of this new vampire relationship, Peter leans more and more heavily on his poor secretary, Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso).  As Peter’s madness evolves, it becomes questionable to the audience exactly what is real and what is Peter’s rapidly devolving mental state. Everyone gets more Nicolas Cage than they bargained for. Review Vampire’s Kiss is an anomaly of a movie. It’s not exactly a terrifying horror movie due to the strong overtones of comedy within Cage’s performance. On the other hand it’s not exactly a feel good romp due to the very serious mental decline of Peter, our protagonist turned antagonist and extremely unreliable narrator. It’s a dark comedy that will delight those who want to be taken on a crazy ride.  Vampire’s Kiss strongest feature is the insane performance given by Nic Cage. He creates such a believably crazy character that you can’t help but remember bumping into people just like him on public transportation and wondering, what is their life like. Watch Vampire's KissWatch on AmazonClick here to Rent or Buy The best part is, you get to see what his life is like. It’s touched, tragic, and totally bonkers. I can’t help but feel like writer Joseph Minion spent some time on the New York subway watching mentally disturbed people and began posing the question to himself, “what brought that person to this unfortunate place? What was their life like before and during their transition into madness?” This is pretty much the only notable directing credit that director Robert Bierman has, and that astonishes me. It’s such a weirdly enjoyable movie and shares so much in common with one of my favorite movies of all time, American Psycho that I can't help but see all the inspiration that Vampire’s Kiss has given to more recent dark comedy movies. Score 8/10

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Bart Simpson the Vampire.

0:05.6

Uh, no, I...

0:07.0

No.

0:11.6

Come join us, Lisa.

0:15.4

It's so cool.

0:17.0

You get to stay up all night drinking blood.

0:20.2

And if you say you're a vampire, you get a free small soda at the movies.

0:24.8

No, no!

0:26.3

Lisa, it's not like you have a choice here.

0:34.1

How many times have I told you not to bite your sister?

0:37.6

Wait a minute, you are a vampire!

0:40.1

Quick! We have to kill the boy!

0:43.0

How'd you know he's a vampire?

0:45.3

He's a vampire? Ah!

0:49.3

Homer, we gotta do something.

0:51.1

Today he's drinking people's blood.

0:52.8

Tomorrow he could be smoking.

0:55.6

Hello and welcome to horror

0:57.8

movie talk.

1:00.2

An opinionated and accidentally

1:02.1

funny horror movie review

1:04.0

show. Go. Go. Go.

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