A great pick if you want a side of lust with your bloodletting.

| Feb 13, 2024

Embraces all of the best elements of gothic horror movies, serving as a love letter to Hammer, while injecting plenty of contemporary perspectives to make for a spooky and sexy experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2023

A deliciously vintage throwback to the erotic horror output of the Hammer studio heyday.

| Aug 12, 2019

Despite its bawdy convictions, Kiss Of The Damned is an empty blood bank looking for willing donors to buy into its sultry showmance of perverse wonderment

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2018

In this weird little movie, you'll rediscover the dramatic insanity that made you adore vampires in the first place.

| May 23, 2018

Cassavetes most definitely shows promise with her first feature film, and while it is far from a masterpiece, it is certainly destined to land solidly with a certain audience.

| Nov 6, 2017

We need our storytellers to do more than draw painfully obvious parallels between drinking blood and making love.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 8, 2014

Writer-director Xan Cassavetes is trying to go beyond the usual boundaries of the vampire genre. She doesn't quite succeed, but at least she tries.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 12, 2014

The screenplay is cliched and simplistic melodrama that drags even if the images and some of the operatic music quotes are lush.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 13, 2013

a significantly more mature - and sexy - take on vampire romance, approaching its subject with sophistication and sensuality even as it indulges in gore and terror that's as metaphorical as it is visceral.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2013

Manages to add a new wrinkle to one of cinema's oldest and hoariest genres.

Full Review | May 14, 2013

"Kiss of the Damned" is rather a hoot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2013

An ambitious, if deeply flawed, vampire love story ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2013

A rare treat, especially for those who like to see grindhouse-oriented subject matter done with intelligence and substance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 3, 2013

Bloody awful.

| May 3, 2013

The pleasure of the film doesn't lie in the plot; it's all about the sultry, horror-tinged mood that Cassavetes manufactures.

Full Review | May 3, 2013

The confident, female-driven sensuality of "Kiss of the Damned" anchors this handsome nonsense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2013

Cassavetes can film an erotic encounter worthy of the 1970s and the golden age of sex scenes, and that is no small compliment these days.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 3, 2013

"Kiss of the Damned" tries to give the vampire movie something it most definitely does not need: class.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 2, 2013

'Kiss of the Damned' does not advance confidently enough in the direction of its nightmares to rise above the fanged pack.

| May 2, 2013