Kiss of the Damned
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually 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.
2 February 1978, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
1 October 1981, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
26 November 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
12 February 1975, Paris, France
20 March 1970, New York City, New York, USA
29 May 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
June1975, New Jersey, USA
1984, Paris, France
8 July 1977, Anaheim, California, USA
18 June 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 September 1986, New York City, New York, USA
26 April 1978, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
February 13, 1976 in New York City, New York, USA
26 September 1972, New York City, New York, USA
November 13, 2013
The screenplay is cliched and simplistic melodrama that drags even if the images and some of the operatic music quotes are lush.
May 09, 2013
An ambitious, if deeply flawed, vampire love story ...
May 02, 2013
What distinguishes Kiss Of The Damned is its look, which combines the garish gore and muted tones of '70s Euro-horror with the subtle glow of modern moviemaking; and its sound design, which frequently mixes in a hellish throb.
November 08, 2013
Though high-brow, erotic and smart, the retro vampire pic lays an egg because its mostly foreign cast screws up the mood piece with uniformly wooden performances.
September 08, 2014
We need our storytellers to do more than draw painfully obvious parallels between drinking blood and making love.
May 09, 2013
"Kiss of the Damned" is rather a hoot.
May 03, 2013
The confident, female-driven sensuality of "Kiss of the Damned" anchors this handsome nonsense.
January 12, 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.
May 14, 2013
Manages to add a new wrinkle to one of cinema's oldest and hoariest genres.
May 02, 2013
"Kiss of the Damned" tries to give the vampire movie something it most definitely does not need: class.
June 12, 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.
May 03, 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.
