i don't think cage has ever been crazier. his delivery on every single line is bizarre and unexpected and hilarious. the film isn't as brilliant as something like bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans, but if you like that style of over-the-top full cage lunacy then this is perhaps the most undiluted example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lct6x-XqWrw

Nicolas Cage acts gloriously loony, but too much of it goes nowhere. Worth watching just for the scene of Cage loping down the street shouting "I'm a vampire! I'm a vampire!" Was Jennifer Beals sporting hairy armpits or did I just imagine that?

An interesting hodgepodge of ideas (vampire as businessman, vampire as fetish, etc.; throw in some paranoid schizoprenia and now the juices are really stewing), none of which are terribly well-developed but all of which make this more interesting than it might otherwise have been. Also, it's hilarious. (Nic Cage as a delusional vampiric Manhattanite with an awful accent? Hell yes!) It runs out of steam for a bit towards the end, but picks up again and finishes on a high note.

"IM A VAMPIRE IM A VAMPIRE IM A VAMPIRE"

Possibly one of the greatest performances ever crafted by the insanely brilliant Nicolas Cage.

Cage is nuts in this one.

The ultimate test of humour.

One of the best performances of all time. Hilarious and unhinged, but also surprisingly subversive.

the worst at his best; Nicholas Cage may have even questioned his acting "career" after seeing himself in this film. ALVA!

Reminds me alot of a 80's American Psycho but just not as encapturing jsut seems to lack something decent watch. Although you might not want to put it that high on your must watch list.

It is more or less miserable, just Cage going berserk, some other goofy stuff he does in the second half and things like the couch coffin made laugh from time to time.

Delightful crap. Cage destroys all around him.

Bizarre film completely saved by what might be the original Crazy Cage performance. This movie would have been a trainwreck with anyone else. As it stands, it's a fascinating piece of character study watching Nic Cage playing a schizophrenic man that thinks he's becoming a vampire. Really liked the tics Cage gave Loew, namely the British accent that comes and goes depending on who he's trying to impress. Recommended for Crazy Cage fans only.

Nicolas Cage thinks he got turned into a vampire, proceeds to troll everyone in the movie (including animals), funny at times if only for Nicolas Cage "acting".

Well, now at least I know my ABCs. So bad that it's great. Incredible stuff from Nic Cage.

Nicolas unhinged = pure joy.

This is Nicolas Cage with all the ACTING restraints removed from his brain. Pure, unadulterated Cage. And it's freakin' incredible. I could watch this a million times. Don't settle for youtube clips! The context makes it SO much more bizarre!

About as oddball and insane as anything you'll ever see. Half of it doesn't make sense but the ridiculousness of Cage's over-the-top performance and the screenplay make it more than memorable. Classic entertainment.

Cage's astonishing commitment to a portrait of unhinged, off-the-wall insanity forms the centrepiece of genuinely bizarre film, which can't make up its mind whether it wants to be an outlandish camp-fest or something a little more ambitious; unfortunately it never comes into focus or succeeds on either level. Worthwhile for Cage completists, and for the chance to hear some truly odd lines of dialogue, though Cage's victimisation of his co-worker is taken to an unecessarily gruesome extreme.

Look at her teeth! Look at her teeth! She's a goddamn vampire!

This movie is hilarious. Though I'm sure there's some sort of metaphorical subtext here (perhaps about sexual predation), the sheer absurdity and surrealism is enough. Nicolas Cage's unhinged performance is so exaggerated, and it's an immediate giveaway that this isn't exactly supposed to be taken seriously. Sometimes referred to as 'Kafkaesque', which is appropriate coming from the same man who wrote the similarly off-kilter After Hours.

One of most intense, craziest and creative acting performances ever recorded on film.

It is performances like these that give Nicolas Cage the internet reputation that he has. A strange joy to watch.

I wonder if this would have been a better movie without Nicholas Cage. He played the character as crazy from the start; believing he was a vampire wasn't much of a change, more like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Cage's off the walls performance is the only thing that makes this movie worth watching, but its one hell of a performance. Another good flick for a cold October night with some friends and some beers. Cage had to do multiple takes for the scene where he eats the cockroach. And yes, it was a real cockroach.

Nic Cage goes completely nuts in what just may be the strangest vampire movie I've ever seen. Perfectly cast for the role, Cage delivers in nearly every scene, right down to that ridiculous accent that seems to be a cross between a California surfer, Jeeves the Butler, and a preppy undergraduate from Harvard.

Abnormally well done for this bizarre subject matter. American Psycho's 80s sociological aspect, also an equally insane and narcissistic lead, combined with a Kafkaesque mix of suspense, horror, & comedy. Nicholas Cage is off the charts, certainly his most expressive if not best performance [hard to choose between this & Adaptation]. I can't remember the last movie that made me laugh this much - too crazy to miss.

Movie drags on in multiple spots. Watch it after a few drinks.

Interesting for Cage's weird acting, but other than that actually quite boring.

Completely insane performance from Nicolas Cage

An accurate portrayal of love in the 1980s.

I NEVER MISFILED ANYTHING. NOT ONCE NOT ONE TIME.

Nicolas Cage, when allowed to act, is our finest actor.

This film has Nicolas Cage chasing his terrified secretary into the woman's washroom, eating pigeons with a set of cheap, plastic vampire teeth, and running in the street yelling "I'M A VAMPIRE I'M A VAMPIRE!". Pretty much the best movie ever.

Cage in an early crazy role destroying everything in sight, he goes berserk even by his standards. Its like a late 80's take on 'American Psycho' that has an insane script and filled with terrific yet highly strange scenes. Darkly comical and it also features a couch coffin. In other words, it was AWESOME.

UGH--this was so hard to sit through. Cage's performance almost destroys a semi-decent script. With the glut of vampires movies available, don't waste your time.

Cage brings his special brand of crazy to a surprisingly well told story of a man slowly losing his mind. This is one time Cage's overacting fits the role perfectly, his over the top mannerisms working well showing someone dissapearing into their own world. It's a very black comedy, similar to American Psycho, with the over-the-top absurdity being the point and Cage commits to that totally. A very strange movie that looks stupid at first glance, but there is an interesting story here too.

This film is two things: the tortured life of a self-hating misogynist yuppie, and Nic Cage's personal playground.

It's like Nicolas Cage drank a shitload of Red Bulls and tried to act

Cage's inexplicable "acting" does nothing to improve this film, which does a poor job of elucidating its central joke anyway. His constant bullying and terrifying of one of his assistants was not funny at all, and by the time it escalated to rape, any understanding of the film's approach to comedy was out of my grasp.

Unimaginable in every way.