Synopsis
Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
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Cast
- Joséphine de la BaumeDjuna
- Milo VentimigliaPaolo
- Roxane MesquidaMimi
- Michael RapaportBen Rider
- Riley KeoughAnn
- Anna MouglalisXenia
- Ching Valdes-AranIrene Pola
- Caitlin KeatsRebecca
- Alexia LandeauEmily
- Chris MeyerJack
Recommendations
- 75
The Playlist
If Kiss of the Damned has one thing, it's an identifiable groove, one that is sustained and very, very infectious. - 70
Variety
Saucily thumbing its nose at the insipid teen love of the "Twilight" franchise, Kiss reimagines its bloodsuckers as horny, supercilious Eurotrash with addiction issues, sucking the life blood from naive American thrill-seekers. - 67
The A.V. Club
Like a lot of the retro-horror films that have popped up on the art-house and festival circuits over the past several years, Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss Of The Damned is more about mood and texture than plot. - 60
Time Out
Cassavetes adopts a grammar that occasionally slides into parody but mostly comes across as committed style. Kiss of the Damned contributes little new to the genre save a taste for alluringly tactile sex scenes and an avoidance of gore. - 60
Los Angeles Times
The confident, female-driven sensuality of Kiss of the Damned anchors this handsome nonsense. - 50
Slant Magazine
Xan Cassavetes cops to nothing more significant than being more keen on Vampyros Lesbos than anyone else from her clan of famous cinephiles. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Paying slavish homage to culty genre predecessors from the sixties, seventies and eighties, this steamy tale of a hunky screenwriter, his ethereal blood-sucking paramour and her bad-girl sister can't quite decide whether to be seductively stylish or knowingly cheesy. - 30
Village Voice
Cassavetes puts over this simple, poorly acted story with moody lighting, self-consciously "beautiful" gore, and an annoying penchant for impressionistic quick-cut flashbacks, all of which get in the way of rather than enhance the supposed fun.
