There is a mysterious woman down the street you have a strange attraction to. She is sad, beautiful and darkly ominous in her refusals to even say, “Hi.” Conventional wisdom would suggest she’s just not that into you, but this is the luscious and lurid Xan Cassavetes film, Kiss of the Damned. With a title like that, you can bet that her true motives definitely have a bite.
We at Den of Geek had the chance to sit down with Cassavetes, as well as her two French leading ladies: Joséphine de La Baum, who plays the film’s lovely and demure fanged heroine Djuna; and Roxane Mesquida, Kiss of the Damned’s Mimi, a hellfire seductress with all sorts of ravenous appetites. Together, we discussed all things vampire, sex, vampire sex and everything in-between.
Kiss of the Damned has style to spare, as it creates a number of kinky set pieces that celebrate the female vampire in a way that few others have in recent memory. These are neither the painfully homogenized commercial vampires of current pop culture infamy, nor their dark and dank underground counterpoints. They are the libidinous, angelic types that steamed up European cinema from an era of horror long gone. However, this return is marked with very little story to tether it to the screen with and some questionable performances in the margins to boot. For those looking for an Undead experience just as much about the carnal as the carnage, this rough-around-the-edges indie will likely not disappoint. But there is not much to please here beyond the physical.
regardless of the score i will still watch this sexy vampire film since the trailer looks scary and is a pure hardcore vampire movie.
Kiss of the Damned is a great vampire movie. The vampires are sexy, dangerous and without angst about living the life immortal.
the title is cheesy and looks B rate...hoever upon inspecting the trailer it shows a lot of potential...a very seductive take on vampires and shows the real scary side of having a romance with a vampire. i cant believe twilight did not try this kind of take. i will watch this for sure.
