Vampire's Kiss
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Vampire's Kiss |
| Original title | Vampire's Kiss |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Bierman |
| script | Joseph Minion |
| production |
John Daly , Derek Gibson , Barry Shils , Barbara Zitwer |
| music | Colin Towns |
| camera | Stefan Czapsky |
| cut | Angus Newton |
| occupation | |
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Vampire's Kiss is an American horror comedy directed by Robert Bierman from 1989 .
action
As a literary agent, Peter Loew is a typical representative of the yuppy of the late 1980s. Night after night he wanders through the in-clubs of Manhattan in search of adventure and the kick that brings a bit of variety to what is actually a rather boring and lonely existence. So one night he drags off the attractive Rachel, who bites his throat and sucks his blood in the heat of the act of love. Now Peter begins to change, he no longer feels particularly good, he begins to relocate girlfriends and drop dates. He also begins to terrorize the office worker Alva, who is looking for a misplaced file on his behalf, which Loew is increasingly becoming an object of obsession.
One day he realizes what is wrong with him, he has turned into a vampire through Rachel's bite. So now he begins to do all sorts of crazy things: he sleeps under the sofa, avoids the light, he eats live cockroaches, he imagines that he no longer has a reflection and after trying to shoot himself with Alva's blank gun, he holds himself now for immortal. More and more he goes mad, even buys plastic vampire teeth and attacks women with them, but his decline is unstoppable. So he walks babbling and fantasizing through the streets of New York towards his imminent, completely vampiric redemption.
Reviews
Hal Hinson wrote in the Washington Post on June 2, 1989 that the film was "stone-dead bad". Hinson derided the portrayal of Nicolas Cage.
“Variant of the vampire genre, which interprets vampirism as a pathological longing for love and focuses on the pleasurable dismantling of its unhappy hero. In the tightrope walk between dream and reality, however, applied too indecisively. "
Awards
Nicolas Cage won an award from the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantástic de Sitges in 1989 . He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 1990.
background
- The film was shot in New York City . Its production amounted to about 2 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 725,000 in US cinemas.
- Cage actually ate three cockroaches as the scene had to be repeated twice.
- The original script required Cage's character to eat raw eggs. Finding it not shocking enough, Cage suggested cockroaches, which he later regretted for her.
- The German theatrical version was cut by around 8 minutes compared to the original version. The uncut version was only released on DVD, but with German subtitles for the 'new' scenes.
swell
- ^ Review by Hal Hinson
- ↑ Vampire's Kiss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Awards for Vampire's Kiss
- ↑ Filming locations for Vampire's Kiss
- ↑ Box office earnings for Vampire's Kiss
- ↑ Photo gallery - image 2 - "No Animals Were Harmed": Animal cruelty during filming. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery. October 7, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on June 5, 2014
Web links
- Vampire's Kiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vampire's Kiss at Rotten Tomatoes (English)