Vampire's Kiss
1989
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
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My notes
This film is severely mislabeled as a comedy, and that mislabeling made it all the more brutal.
Frequently touted as the film where Nic Cage 'crashes out' at work, the one where he gives a famously unhinged recitation of the alphabet, does a very grave disservice to this film.
I was expecting a romance, horror, comedy - where Nic Cage is seduced by a vampire and that romance ends up tearing his life apart. I was not expecting a film with a yuppie grappling with a lack of meaning in a capitalist society and descent into full blown psychotic break.
Absolutely brutal film.