Jennifer Beals in Vampire's Kiss (1989)

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Vampire's Kiss (1989) is a truly awful film. Nicolas Cage, who had a fairly big success with Moonstruck, was set to play the lead, and his agent advised him that this role was not good for his career. He dropped out, as did the actor they hired to replace him, but he decided to do the film after all. Cage should have listened to his agent.

As the film opens, we see him pick up Kasi Lemmons, and take her home to bed. Their tryst is interrupted by a bat in the apartment. The film degenerates rapidly from here, as we learn that Cage sees a shrink regularly, and is an executive at a literary agency, who spends most of his time speaking in a gawdawful affected accent, and terrorizing his secretary, Maria Conchita Alonso. Then he takes Jennifer Beals home, and imagines that she bit him on the neck in what was advertised as a hot sex scene with breast exposure. What was actually exposed was a huge adhesive breast patch. So, Cage thinks he is a Vampire, and becomes even sillier, and I fast forwarded to the end quickly, on the off chance there was additional nudity.

It is not funny, is not scary, and Cage is irritating every moment he is on screen. I say D-.

Nudity Report: Lemmons shows nipples in the tryst scene with Cage.

IMDb Summary: IMDB readers have it at 5.1 of 10.

DVD Info: Cage appeared with the director in a feature length commentary, and claimed to be proud of the film. He mentioned that the accent was based on an affected fake accent his dad assumed that had always irritated him, and that the producers hated it, but the director loved it.


Written by Tuna…courtesy of Scoopy.net