One can’t help but be interested in Cage’s performance the same way one’s attention is drawn to a car accident on the freeway, but the movie would have been better served with a drastically different approach to the character.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 4, 2024

Cage makes more choices than E-40, all of them “Yup,” and the result is a feature-length supercut of classic Cage freakouts.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 26, 2023

The 1988 cult classic may feature Cage’s most unhinged performance, which is obviously saying something.

| May 17, 2023

[Juggles] satire, goofball comedy, and unexpected human tragedy with an assurance that is as impressive as it is intentionally discombobulating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2023

Just by watching it one fears having remotely acquired pernicious anemia. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2022

Even by the standards of loony Nicolas Cage performances, Vampire's Kiss features one of the looniest. He pulls out all the stops -- even some you didn't know exist.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2022

Not much in the plot department (at least until they spring the twist on you) but it's dark, strange & very funny. This movie, along with Raising Arizona & Moonstruck announced Nicolas Cage's enthusiasm for weird, but deeply committed, comic performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2022

Think of Vampire’s Kiss as the screwy, punk flipside of American Psycho.

| Jun 20, 2022

Cage hijacks the movie and turns it into his own private actors laboratory.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 19, 2022

A vampire satire with real bite.

| Jul 7, 2017

As Vampire's Kiss unspools, the lead character, Peter Loew (Cage), wavers in and out of this accent and a wide variety of voices, seeming to give every role Cage has ever played (or would ever play, past, present and future) equal vocal time in the film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 13, 2015

100-minute-long piece of performance art masquerading as a moody, silly indie switchblade. Rarely impresses, succumbing to overwhelmingly sluggish filmmaking decisions and a permissive attitude that robs the picture of its...well...bite.

| Original Score: C | Aug 26, 2009

An odd blend of bitter comedy and genuine horror.

| Sep 16, 2008

Problem is that 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.

| Sep 16, 2008

What truly distinguishes the movie is Cage's performance, which is so off the wall that even if you don't like it you have to watch in awe.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 16, 2008

What really makes this worth seeing is Cage's outrageously unbridled performance.

| Sep 16, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2007

For pure, undiluted Cage-osity, "Vampire's Kiss" is the film to beat.

| Original Score: A | Apr 9, 2007

Undeservedly dismissed by most critics, this original film, whether taken as a straight horror yarn or as a psycho-erotic nightmare, mixes elements of fable and satire in a startling manner.

| Original Score: B | Oct 21, 2006

Bierman's striking first feature leaves one trembling between corrosive laughter, edgy terror, and a residual sadness at Loew's pitiful plight.

| Jun 24, 2006