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Vampire's Kiss Details

1989 Certificate 18
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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 .. Read more

Starring Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley
Director Robert Bierman
Genres Comedy

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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 incredible. Well, the film itself isn't really incredible, it's Cage's performance. Here, it seems, he was given free rein to act like a total 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 only mentioned 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 rather 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.

Starring Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons, Jessica Lundy
Director Robert Bierman
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 06 Sep 2004
Production year: 1989
Format DVD
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  • 1 stars out of 5

    Yuppie Nicolas Cage gets bitten by sexy vampire Jennifer Beals — or does he? When he disappointingly doesn't turn into a vampire himself, he fakes it and becomes a mixed-up psycho wearing plastic fangs while prowling discos for victims. Falling deathlessly between horror comedy and a serious study of mental illness, director Robert Bierman's wretched farrago is hideously unfunny, witless and offensively stupid. Cage is so over the top as the pathetic loser, he's just ridiculous.

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  • Cage gives a manically mannered performance as Peter Loew, a literary agent whose obsession with a missing contract... read more on Time Out

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    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Cage at his very best

    This is an original and totally brilliant film..............yes, its a black comedy, very dark, and abstract story lines.

    It’s not a linear plot, so anyone expecting a concise beginning, middle and end, and conventional storytelling, may be missing the point quite literally......

    This is a bold, stark, and ruthless portrayal of a man who is not altogether there, shall we say....

    Cage plays it brilliantly, this is one of my favourite all time films, and is a genuine masterpiece.......

      • boogsy from Moston
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Different

    Wow, I have never seen Nic Cage in a film roll like this before, one of his early films.

    Is there any type of role that this man cant play, its great the way he has you so into whats going on, you know what the ending is, but you are so fixed to the film, just incase you have got it wrong, once again fantastic Cage, no wonder he is where he is today.

      • A customer from uk
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    • 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 ...