Vampire's Kiss (1988)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Absolutely Fantastic

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Comedy is not Horror, no matter what anyone says. Totally, two different genres. This is nothing to be considered a horror movie. So it should never be listed in genre for this movie at all. It is about a nut that goes nuts, thinking he is a Vampire after being bit by one, and assumes he is turning into one.Pretty stupid if you ask me and not even funny. How people are saying it is misunderstood is stupid too. Horror is not meant to be funny at all. That is why it is called Horror. Stupid to say stupid things, and expect others to agree with you. My mother does this all the time. Why the heck rate a movie high just for comedy alone?Annoying when he calls Alva name over and over again, and chases her to the ladies room. Stupid as heck. I love Nicholas Cage but this is by far his worst movie. Should be an option for negative votes or rating. If you don't rate, then it is not for or against the movie on this site at all.That is so stupid that people do not rate when reviewing movies on this site because of that exact reason. That is why a lot of movies are rated bass ackwards. So glad they got rid of the bulletin Boards. Too many people complaining about bad movies being to low and that they are not that bad, like this movie.They would be saying stuff that makes no way for it to be rated higher. There is at least one bad movie for an actor, and this is Nicholas Cage one. Only thing on television right now. So kind of forced to watch it. Too bad television broadcast sucks with bad movies and too much reality television.

I finally got around to watch the 1988 "Vampire's Kiss" in 2016, and it was about due time, because I had really been missing out on what can only be described as the pinnacle of Nicolas Cage's acting career. You did pick up on the sarcasm here, right?Without knowing what this movie was about, I sat down to watch it, believing that it was going to be an actual vampire movie. And for awhile it also did appear like a vampire movie, albeit a very odd and offbeat one. But then you start to realize that this is actually a movie about a man's decline of mental stability and lack of coherency to perceive the reality of the world around him. And as such, then I will say that director Robert Bierman actually managed to set up the movie in an interesting enough way.However, it was just brought to the point of ridiculousness by the weirdness of Nicolas Cage's acting throughout the course of the movie. Sure, he was portraying a man who was losing his sanity, but it was just too much. And his mannerisms and facial expression was just over the top. And the scene where Peter Loew (played by Nicolas Cage) was scolding his secretary Alva Restrepo (played by Maria Conchita Alonso) in his office, where his expression just turns more and more maniacal is so hilarious. It was so hilarious that this scene alone was worth watching the entire movie for.Maria Conchita Alonso actually did a good job in the movie, just a shame that she didn't have a bigger part in the movie. Nicolas Cage, well, let's just say that he was there all over the screen. This was not his finest moment, but it surely was his most memorable movie moment, no doubt about it.While the storyline is sort of bizarre and twisted, then there is also something entertaining to it. It was interesting to see the decline of Peter Loew and how he started to believe in his own delusions. But as I mentioned just above, it was brought too far by Nicolas Cage's performance.Running at an hour and forty-three minutes, this movie felt more like two and a half hours. It just kept on dragging on and on in what seemed forever. It was perhaps because the movie was lacking momentum and didn't really progress at a satisfying speed, so I was starting to become bored at times.Surely the movie had potential and some aspects of the storyline were really good. But the overall result of the movie was a less than mediocre movie experience, because I wasn't particularly entertained by the movie. And while laughing at Nicolas Cage counts for something, it was hardly enough to lift up the movie as such.

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.

Off the wall black comedy about Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage), a literary agent in NYC. Peter, dissatisfied with the nature of his life, has an encounter with a one night stand, Rachel (Jennifer Beals). She bites him on the neck, and the increasingly unstable Peter believes that she is a vampire and just turned him into one. He makes life absolutely miserable for his flustered secretary Alva (Maria Conchita Alonso), while going about doing what he thinks a vampire's gotta do.Joseph Minion ("After Hours") wrote the screenplay for this movie that, if nothing else, will go down in history for Cages' performance. We've seen him be prone to shameless overacting, but here his eccentricities reach one of their peaks (see also "Deadfall"). As other reviews have stated, though, there is more going on here than meets the eye; the movie isn't really to be taken literally. Yes, there's violence (the gore is courtesy of Ed French), and a few pointed teeth, but it's not too hard to reason that Peter is really manufacturing all of these nightmare scenarios in his head. A rather uncomfortable bit of business with Peters' office harassment of his poor secretary forms the major subplot.Cage really is something to see, as he overturns his sofa, crawls beneath it, and turns it into a makeshift "coffin", shuns the sunlight, and is forced to buy ultra cheap plastic fangs. He's rarely been THIS unrestrained. He even affects a light, posh accent at times that is just downright silly. The supporting cast is fine (Elizabeth Ashley plays Peters' psychiatrist, Kasi Lemmons a potential girlfriend), and the ladies are all tantalizingly sexy. Now familiar faces like John Michael Higgins and David Hyde Pierce have small roles. The filmmaking isn't especially stylish but it's competent enough. (The photography is just gorgeous at times.)"Vampire's Kiss" does generate some modest chuckles. It's kind of tough going at times, and really should have been shorter, but it makes for some decent entertainment.Six out of 10.