Vampire's Kiss (1989)

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A frustrated Manhattan literary editor, Peter Loew (Cage), meets a mysterious woman (Beals). During a passionate night of lovemaking, the woman bites him on the neck, drawing blood. When she disappears the next morning, Peter becomes convinced that she was a vampire and that's he's become one too. As he loses himself to pressure of everyday life, he begins to act the role of a creature of the night. (MGM/UA)

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Directed By: Robert Bierman

Written By: Joseph Minion

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Beals, Debbie Rochon, John Michael Higgins, Maria Conchita Alonso, Johnny Walker, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons, Michael Knowles, Jessica Lundy, Jodie Markell, Boris Leskin

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Country: USA

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Vampire's Kiss belongs to 23 collections

1. Djross best horror movies (public: djross - 1 star)

2. Djross seen at the cinema (public: djross)

3. Black Comedy (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 29 stars)

4. Vampire (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 13 stars)

5. Horror comedies (collaborative - 3 stars)

6. boobs (collaborative: moderated by Pickpocket - 53 stars)

7. Djross horror movie of the year (public: djross - 2 stars)

8. Onion AV Club: The New Cult Canon (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 29 stars)

9. Djross underrated movies (public: djross - 2 stars)

10. Djross 1989 top ten (public: djross)

11. Internet Meme (collaborative: moderated by Hailey - 4 stars)

12. 1988: Year in Review (public: polanski28)

13. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)

14. Contemporary masculine kenosis (public: djross - 1 star)

15. Certified weird (collaborative: moderated by Dreamer - 47 stars)

16. Peliculas que tengo (public: escarta)

17. Pre-Guiliani New York (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 2 stars)

18. Rewatch & Random (public: ForrestQ)

19. How Did This Get Made? (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 8 stars)

20. Hulu (public: Jason212)

21. Vampire (public: AzulA)

22. British director (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 1 star)

23. Incorrect criticker release dates (collaborative: moderated by JooJoo)

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Stars	User	Rating
14	djross	82 _93rd
An accurate portrayal of love in the 1980s.
7	omgfridge	10 _97th
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.
6	JooJoo	6 _95th
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.
6	Barthalen	61 _40th
Cocaine: The Movie
6	spleen	45 _19th
Nicholas Cage proves there's a fine line between method acting and week-long coke binge.
5	Judge Holden	6 _81st
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.
4	Nathan S	4 _74th
This movie is hilarious. Though I'm sure there's some sort of metaphorical subtext here (perhaps about sexual predators), 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.
4	KasperL	30 _10th
A surprisingly dark drama transformed into a comedy by the last guy in the world one should ask to play a crazy person. Though it's often excruciating to watch, it's also something to behold.
4	begoniabol	71 _63rd
Cage being a king in every way. This movie is one of a kind, and only Cage could have gotten the lead role. Amazing quotes, Cage with his fantastic and probably his own invented accent, Cage walking around with vampire teeth and I'm now questioning myself if I'm a vampire or not. .... What, ofcourse I am!
3	Kojiless	78 _82nd
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.
3	BillyShears	85 _86th
"IM A VAMPIRE IM A VAMPIRE IM A VAMPIRE"
3	glumpy_99	53 _12th
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.
2	TheDenizen	60 _40th
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?
2	Alex Watkins	4 _70th
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.
2	yoshifan	9 _85th
Nic Cage at his Nic Cagiest.
2	MrCarmady	95 _89th
One of the best performances of all time. Hilarious and unhinged, but also surprisingly subversive.
2	chemtrails	75 _82nd
Everybody watch this, please do
2	Talyn Golic	80 _56th
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.
2	dmarques	67 _36th
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".
2	Byder	69 _62nd
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1	bizort	56 _33rd
Cage completely overacting in a film that's either horrid or curiously well done. I can't quite figure it out.
1	frederic_g54	7 _57th
Unintentionally hilarious yet unexpectedly fascinating movie about self-imposed insanity. In that regard, it's a fitting starring vehicle for Nicolas Cage who goes bat shit crazy, as his descent into madness leaves a trail of wreckage from which no soul emerges unscathed. Not even pigeons.
1	saucyjack	39 _17th
Interesting for Cage's weird acting, but other than that actually quite boring.
1	miss jesus	23 _5th
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.
1	monclivie	80 _71st
Someday I will grow enough balls to rate it 100.
1	Neonman	63 _21st
I don't even know -- this is one of the most bat-shit (haw-haw) crazy films I've seen. It seems to have a complete disregard for how to operate as a compelling motion picture and instead opts for insane Nic Cage acting moments strung together in a totally loopy narrative perfectly suited for him. This film could be very deep and actually about something, but I have no idea (I wouldn't mind watching it again)
1	Castroph	7 _70th
Unimaginable in every way.
1	EastonD	83 _72nd
Nicolas Cage, when allowed to act, is our finest actor.
1	andagh	97 _92nd
Look at her teeth! Look at her teeth! She's a goddamn vampire!
1	sheddle	85 _70th
It's like Nicolas Cage drank a shitload of Red Bulls and tried to act
1	Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter)	40 _31st
Vampire's Kiss is an insane movie for one reason only: Nicolas Cage. He's of-the-wall crazy in this movie, and even if that completely goes against what everyone else was attempting to do, it at least makes what otherwise might have been a dull film watchable. You don't get performances like this very often, so even if you hate Vampire's Kiss -- and it's a bad enough movie that this reaction would be fine -- you're going to stick around and see what Cage does next.
1	jhook	68 _14th
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.
1	VCohaagen	80 _79th
Possibly one of the greatest performances ever crafted by the insanely brilliant Nicolas Cage.
1	RandallODim	86 _82nd
Nic Cage makes this whole thing work, and it's fantastic.
1	eadwinn	90 _85th
One of most intense, craziest and creative acting performances ever recorded on film.
1	SirSass	50 _29th
Is he trying or is he just going ape shit. The wonders of watching Nicolas Cage.
1	Yiannos	75 _84th
The first and probably the best of Cage's crazy bizarro performances. Not much to say here that hasn't already been said other than that Bierman deserved a better career on the strength of his work here. He mostly nails an ambiguous tone that is difficult to describe, walking an extremely fine line between camp and satire that both conforms to and subverts genre expectations. Shame that the memes generated from it have given an entire generation the wrong impression.
1	warrensm	54 _29th
Nicolas Cage is pretty much the master of insane acting. Yet, with Vampire's Kiss, this is the movie that makes you want to ask him, "What is your major malfunction?" He basically spends the entire movie acting silly, screaming like a maniac, and abusing his secretary. This movie is nothing but nonsense.
1	Hawkins	75 _57th
Somewhere between The Fly and American Psycho, this yuppie fever dream kicks off Cage's vampire arc and crowns his over-the-top highlight reels. Also features a ridiculous amount of establishing shots of New York City. There's a shitton of NYC. Overall, nothing amazing but mandatory viewing for the cult of Cage
1	Zangin	60 _36th
This entire film rests on Cage's performance, and it is a hell of a performance. The plot itself is decent and has some surprises but he alone keeps this film engaging, hillarious and shocking. Even with Cage though, the film is rather dull in the beginning and even at its best, it mostly just feels like a subpar American Psycho (notwithstanding that the novel wouldn't even be published for another two years.).
1	benhagy	80 _81st
Proto-American Psycho. The film stradles a similar line between true darkness and absurdist comedy, but veers ever more toward the darkness as it progresses. Obviously, Cage's completely unhinged performance is a big reason to see the film, but you might be surprised how it holds up as a similar kind of upper class indictment.

Average Percentile 50.49% from 707 Ratings