After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he's turning into a vampire.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
- Emilio
- (as Bob Lujan)
- Donald
- (as John Walker)
- Fantasy Cabbie
- (as Boris Leskin)
- Theater Guy
- (as David Pierce)
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Nicolas Cage on the Roles That Changed His Life
Nicolas Cage on the Roles That Changed His Life
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Did you know
- TriviaNicolas Cage playing Peter Loew ate a real cockroach for this film - it reportedly took three takes. He once said about the experience, "Every muscle in my body didn't want to do it, but I did it anyway."
- GoofsDuring both sex scenes with Rachel and Peter in Peter's bed, the flesh colored pad covering Jennifer Beals' nipple is clearly visible.
- Quotes
Peter Loew: Shouldn't the copy be in that file? It should, right?
Dr. Glaser: Yes.
Peter Loew: Right? Hmmm. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Dr. Glaser: Unless, of course, it's somehow been somehow misfiled.
Peter Loew: MIS-filed?
Dr. Glaser: Yes, misfiled. Sometimes somebody puts a document in the wrong file and then it's misfiled. It makes it much harder to find.
Peter Loew: Who? Who? What do you mean, who? How could somebody MIS-file something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just PUT it IN the RIGHT FILE! According to ALPHABETICAL ORDER! You know - A, B, C, D, E, F, G!
Dr. Glaser: Peter...
Peter Loew: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P!
Dr. Glaser: Peter...
Peter Loew: Q, R, S, T, U, V!
Dr. Glaser: Oh, Peter...
Peter Loew: W, X, Y, Z! HUH? THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO DO!
Dr. Glaser: Very good, you know your alphabet.
Peter Loew: I NEVER MISFILED ANYTHING! NOT ONCE, NOT ONE TIME! I wanna know, really, WHO DID?
Dr. Glaser: I cannot possibly tell you that.
Peter Loew: You can't?
Dr. Glaser: No, I can't.
Peter Loew: Hah! And you call yourself a psychiatrist?
- ConnectionsEdited into Leet Fighters: Mojado Mexican (2014)
Imagine a relationship wherein the woman was so soul sucking, so evil in her ways that you now feel as if she has sucked you dry - literally and figuratively - you are left as nothing but (in this case) a shell of a man - a walking corpse, yearning for the life's blood that she has stolen from you through your very own veins!
Cage gives the performance of his career and should have received an Oscar as the twisted, quintessential jilted lover who now desperately tries to recapture the joy of his most passionate and influential relationship by revisiting the empty, vampiretic bar hopping lifestyle where he found her - working his way through subsequent women, then just as unsatisfactorily moving his way through rape, suicidal tendencies and ultimately, murder.
It's tone is unforgiving alternating comedy and tragedy, confusing us as to whether he is really a vampire or just thinks he is. By flipping from his therapeutic sessions to his bitter and pathetic reality we see just how badly his male ego has taken rejection.
Here is a film where the simple plotline of a man being bitten by a vampire and believing he has become one becomes one where we see a man disintegrating before us, sliding into madness because he is forced to face his empty life.
His obsessive attention to detail, penchant for house bugs, absence of reflection in the mirror and avoidance of sunlight all match the prerequisites for vampirism, but his clumsy attempts at finding another woman and to fill the void that is left by a woman put so far onto a pedestal he cannot reach are overshadowed.
This is not a film for the feint of heart but for anyone who has ever been screwed over by a woman they have loved (or imagined they did) this is a welcome little cult revelation that makes them laugh and brood at the same time.
- Shemke Lemke
- Oct 30, 2001
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Vampire's Kiss - Ein beißendes Vergnügen
- Filming locations
- St. Nicholas Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church, 288 E 10th St, New York City, New York, USA(Peter begs parishoners to kill him)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $725,131
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $96,699
- Jun 4, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $726,628
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1