Vampire's Kiss (1988)

Best movie of this year hands down!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I have seen films where he does over the top acting and its never entertaining but in this film however, it is so funny! This film is in the so bad its good movies since it is supposed to be a Drama/Horror film but it fails at both, this film just feels like a Comedy which is not a bad thing if you see it that way. I give this film a bad score for failing at its genre it was trying to give but I was still entertained. I recommend this movie as a Comedy, not as a horror/drama film.GO SEE IT!

How can anybody find humor in this film? His secretary's brother stabs him with a wooden stake made from a crate slat. (It is bloody. Movie ends.) Nicolas Cage plays Peter Loew, a disturbed literary agent who has no life. He works all day and does disco clubs and drugs at night. He bullies his secretary and scares her to death about a stupid old file. He screws anything in sight. One night he takes home beautiful Rachel. Sure, she is a neck biter but is she a real vampire? Does she return time and again to feast on his blood or is he just slowly going insane and imagining it? Probably. He drifts in and out of 3 distinct "accents". This appears to be bad acting, but it is really to show all 3 sides of his "Jekyll and Hyde" personality. He believes he is becoming a vampire, wears dark glasses and avoids sunlight. It turns into a real horror movie when he buys plastic vampire teeth and bites someone to death at the disco. "Rachel" (Jennifer Beals) appears in the movie several times but is probably all in his mind. Quite campy at the end when he does a bad imitation of a hunched-over madman and has a full conversation with two people that aren't even there. (His psychiatrist and "Sharon".) Nickolas Cage gives a tour-de-force performance, but I still hate this movie. Until it builds up to the murder, parts of it just drag on. It's a psychotic thriller with nasty swearing and modest nudity. (Jennifer wears very little clothing.) Was it drug use or a brain tumor? We are not given the reason for his dementia. Neither Peter nor Jennifer turn into vampires. It should have been titled "This Movie Sucks".

Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) is a Manhattan literary agent and Alva Restrepo (Maria Conchita Alonso) is his suffering assistant. He party all night and goes to therapist Dr. Glaser. A bat gets in his apartment during a night with a girl which he finds arousing. Another night, he brings Rachel (Jennifer Beals) home from a club. She shows her fangs and feeds on him. He continues to let her feed night after night. He becomes erratic and thinks he's turning into a vampire himself.Cage is going over the top with his performance. The problem is that Peter treats Alva so poorly even before being bite. It's hard to care about him at all. It's fascinating to see Cage overact sometimes but I don't see him hounding Alva as being funny. Maybe if he isn't so mean to Alva early on.

Vampire's Kiss is a pretty original dark comedy/horror film starring Nicolas Cage in one of his best performances. Cage is an executive in NYC that throughout the course of the movie is convinced he is a vampire. Cage's character is on a rapid downward spiral to complete insanity. Whether loneliness or too much stress is a factor, it is never specified. I have no idea what types of drugs Cage was taking, but he is totally bonkers in this film. Maria Conchita Alonso is his office assistant and doormat of which his abuse towards her escalates throughout the course of the film. Once Cage is convinced he is a vampire, he embraces his destiny. He has an aversion to sunlight and sleeps under his couch upside down like it is a coffin. He even bought some three dollar fangs in the local occult store. Now that's commitment to the lifestyle! Combine George A Romero's Martin with American Psycho if you want to get an idea of the style of Vampire's Kiss. Anyway you slice it this is one freaky deaky film and it works due to Cage's wild, eccentric and absolutely unhinged and explosive performance. If you are looking for something dark, offbeat, but well done this is one you won't want to miss.