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- After a harrowing encounter with a bat in his bedroom, New York literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) meets a woman in a nightclub. Later, in the course of love-making, Rachel (Jennifer Beals) suddenly reveals her fangs and bites him in the neck. Soon thereafter, Peter begins to believe that he, too, is turning into a vampire.
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Jun 13, 2019 · The result was Vampire’s Kiss, a darkly comic story about a mentally disturbed literary agent named Peter Loew, whose empty, unfulfilled romantic exploits cause him to rant to his therapist and...
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At a nightclub, Peter seemingly meets a mysterious woman named Rachel and takes her home. In bed, she exposes her vampire fangs and bites him on the neck, with Peter succumbing to pleasure as she feeds on his blood. The following morning, Peter is seen with an uninjured neck, but cuts himself shaving and applies a bandage.
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Peter Loew is a New York City literary agent and a narcissistic yuppie, with little in his life but work, one-night stands, and frequent appointments with his therapist, Dr. Glaser. Peter brings home a woman named Jackie from a club, but they are interrupted when a bat flies through the window; he later tells Dr. Glaser that his struggle with the b...
Jennifer Beals as Rachel, the seductive vampire that initially haunts Peter and pushes him into his vampire-like state, eventually falling in love with himJoseph Minion wrote the film as he grappled with depression. In an interview with Zach Schonfeld of The Ringer, Minion said that while on vacation in Barbados with his then-girlfriend, Barbara Zitwer, he wrote the screenplay as a response to his "toxic relationship" with her. Zitwer, who would come on as a producer for the film, found the final pro...
Vampire's Kiss was released June 2, 1989. It grossed $725,131 in the U.S. It was released on home video in August 1990. MGM released it on DVD in August 2002, and Scream Factory released it on Blu-ray in February 2015. It was subsequently re-released on Blu-Ray through the MVD Rewind labelin June, 2022.
Metacriticassigned the film a weighted average score of 30 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Varietywrote, "Cage's over-the-top performance generates little sympathy for the character, so it's tough to be interested in him as his personality disorder worsens." Caryn James of The New York Times wrote, "[T]h...
Web site: Vampire's Kiss. Box Office Mojo.Web site: Vampire's Kiss. Box Office Mojo.Web site: 47 Things We Learned from Nicolas Cage's Vampire's Kiss Commentary. 2015-02-09. Film School Rejects. en-US. 2020-05-01.Web site: Vampire's Kiss. Rosenbaum. Jonathan. Chicago Reader. October 26, 1985 . en. 2020-05-01.- Robert Bierman
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Vampire's Kiss: Directed by Robert Bierman. With Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley. After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
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- Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
- Robert Bierman
- 1989-06-16
Feb 9, 2015 · Vampire’s Kiss (1988) Commentators: Robert Bierman (director), Nicolas Cage (actor) 1. Bierman recalls meeting Cage and getting on very well only to discover a week later that the actor had...
Feb 28, 2015 · SYNOPSIS: After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he’s turning into a vampire. REVIEW: There have been rumors circulating over the past few years that Nicolas Cage is a vampire.
What is "Vampire's Kiss" about? After a harrowing encounter with a bat in his bedroom, New York literary agent Peter Loew ( Nicolas Cage) meets a woman in a nightclub. Later, in the course of love-making, Rachel ( Jennifer Beals) suddenly reveals her fangs and bites him in the neck.
