Review of Vampire`s Kiss

Introduction

Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage), sporting some hair is the high flying publishing executive who enjoys one night stands but dislikes getting involved. His increasingly obsessive behaviour and bullying of one of his assistants seems to stem from him being bitten by a vampire but is this really happening or is it all an illusion brought on by overwork?

The vampire continues to visit him until he believes that he is becoming like her he starts wearing sunglasses, reacting to sunlight and develops an appetite for live food. Meanwhile he is driving his assistant Alva to desperate measures.

As his behaviour becomes more extreme it becomes apparent that we are witnessing a mental breakdown.

Video

A reasonably clean transfer of an unremarkable film that should have been buried far more deeply in the vault to prevent eager executives getting it released.

Audio

There are no problems with the sound reproduction but I think the music soundtrack is deliberately awful, being a parody of the classic horror films of the past.

Features

Move along now.

Conclusion

This film seemed to go on forever and it is not something I would chose tio watch again Cage puts in a very intense performance as a man on the very edge but everybody else seems to have been made out of cardboard The toothy Beals is awful and flounders with a part that is badly written before she started. Cage`s fantasies are tedious and the scenes with Alva I disliked intensely, finding the bullying rather uncomfortable. The only scene I enjoyed was his `conversation` with his therapist at the end and that was because it was the end.

Too long too slow and too much of Cage and those teeth.

Why couldn`t they just let it lie?