Vampire's Kiss

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2004 Filmcritic.com

Kooky vampire flick gives us an already neurotic Nicolas Cage slowly turning into one of them after receiving a bite. Naturally, this sends him through the roof, panicking worse in every scene and famously eating a live cockroach (for real!). Is he really turning into a bloodsucker or is he just going crazy? Cage owns this movie completely (whether bellowing at the top of his lungs or sleeping under an overturned couch in lieu of a coffin), rescuing from a woefully miscast Maria Conchita Alonso as Cage's unmemorably mousy secretary.

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Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Robert Bierman
  • Producer: John Daly, Derek Gibson, Barry Shils, Barbara Zitwer
  • Screenwriter: Joseph Minion
  • Stars: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons, Bob Lujan, Jessica Lundy
  • MPAA Rating: R