Kiss of the Damned (2012) 5.1
The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered. Director:Xan CassavetesWriter:Xan Cassavetes |
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I'm a huge fan of all vampire movies... the good, the bad, and the really bad. I knew when I first saw the trailer for this movie it was going to be a tad different from the brooding sparkly vampire teenagers we've come to know over the past several years and I was right. So often vampire movies become campy predictable interpretations that completely miss the mark but this film was dead on (pun intended) From it's stylized 70's themed wardrobe and settings to it's fantastically melodramatic soundtrack it had me absolutely captivated right from the beginning. It's a classic conflicted love story with all the predictable ups and downs complete with a very convincing sociopathic villain but what sets it far apart from the rest of the campy vamp trash that's plagued our cinema screens recently is it's realistic take on a very unrealistic supernatural lifestyle. This movie did a fantastic job of expressing the constant turmoil, trials, and tribulations of a modern day vamp without over glorifying or glamorizing anything. It was gory, captivating, and seductive at all the right times and in my opinion one of the better vamp films I've ever seen.