{"id":14504,"date":"2021-10-10T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T20:27:13","slug":"vampires-kiss-1988-robert-bierman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14504","title":{"rendered":"Vampire&#8217;s Kiss (1988, Robert Bierman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Happy SHOCKtober 2021!<\/strong>  Reliably a few weeks behind on the blog, but I&#8217;m actually catching up, and I helpfully started watching horror movies in September so I&#8217;d be able to post them in October.  I realized pretty early that this is the movie where the crazy-eyed Nic Cage meme comes from.  Cage gives a massive performance, more goofy than you can imagine, speaking the whole time in a Posh <em>Bill &#038; Ted<\/em> accent, and it seems for a long time like some poor fool director&#8217;s movie was ruined because he couldn&#8217;t keep a handle on Cage &#8211; but it turns out his being uncontrollably weird is a vital part of the plot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/vampkiss1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cage brings home a drunk hot girl, but they get chased out of his apartment by a bat on a string, then he spends half the movie tormenting his secretary (Maria Conchita Alonso, between <em>The Running Man<\/em> and <em>Predator 2<\/em>) looking for a missing contract.  The bat and the contract, along with the 80&#8217;s beats and the accent make the movie hard to take seriously, but Cage is just so enjoyable.  He believes that Jennifer Beals has turned him into a vampire (she hasn&#8217;t) and that he can&#8217;t see his reflection (we can) so he needs to feed, buying some cheap plastic fangs and murdering girls at dance clubs.  He grabs and eats a pigeon, brutally breaks up with his imaginary girlfriend, and finally gets staked at home by the secretary&#8217;s brother.  From the writer of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12235\">After Hours<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/vampkiss2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy SHOCKtober 2021! Reliably a few weeks behind on the blog, but I&#8217;m actually catching up, and I helpfully started watching horror movies in September so I&#8217;d be able to post them in October. I realized pretty early that this is the movie where the crazy-eyed Nic Cage meme comes from. Cage gives a massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,614,186],"class_list":["post-14504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14539,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions\/14539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}