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Vampire's Kiss, 1988

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso

Directed by: Robert Bierman

Written by: Joseph Minion

Language: German, English

Country: USA

Runtime: 103 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:5.4

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The mood of Vampire's Kiss is scary, suspenseful, and humorous. The plot centers around a losing-it hero, vampires, and supernatural occurences. It features dark humor. Vampire's Kiss is a comedy, horror, and fantasy movie. Stylistically, it is surreal. The setting is New York. Vampire's Kiss happens in the 1980s.

Summary of Vampire's Kiss

Nicolas Cage plays Peter Loew, a sleazy literary agent who prowls the bars in the evening looking for some action. One night he hooks up with Jennifer Beals, and in the course of their relations, she bites him on the neck. When he wakes up the next morning, Peter doesn't feel quite right. He is irritable, and has a hard time dealing with life at the literary agency, where his secretary takes the brunt of his ire. Suddenly, it dawns on Peter that he was bitten by a vampire, so he goes out and buys a set of real fangs. However, mere plot exposition can't begin to get at what makes this movie so amazing. Well, the film itself isn't really amazing--it's Cage's performance. Here, it seems, he was given free rein to act like a complete madman. There is absolutely no precedent for this performance anywhere in film history, and Cage is a wonder to watch. Though this film is usually mentioned only when people want to talk about how Cage ate a live cockroach once because he insisted on absolute realism, his performance here dwarfs everything else he's ever done. The movie might be rather silly, what with its pretentious device of using Peter's transformation into a vampire as a metaphor for his other life as a parasitic literary agent and lady-killer, but Cage overacts so stunningly that you can't take your eyes off the film for a second.

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Language:	German, English
Country:	USA
Release date:	17 September 1988
Runtime:	103 min

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Nicolas Cage

as Peter Loew

Maria Conchita Alonso

as Alva Restrepo

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TV Guide

But what truly distinguishes the movie is Cage's performance, which is so off the wall that even if you don't like it you have to watch in awe. Full Review

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by: Maitland McDonagh

Variety

Cage's over-the-top performance generates little sympathy for the character, so it's tough to be interested in him as his personality disorder worsens. Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

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intriguing, but incredibly hard to watch. It took me four attempts to get through it. I spent most of the movie thinking Really? Jennifer Beals and Nick Cage thought this was a good idea? Just because a movie tries to convey a deeper social... Read and rate it

17.October.2009
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by: Brad
Brad rated this movie0/10

Weird, Its not that I hated it but I cant say that I liked it. B-movie I guess. One that youd watch on a Saturday Evening movie channel Read and rate it

07.October.2009
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by: spongetwan
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