StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

desert_dilbert All I heard about this movie was how sexy and great it was. So sexy. So vampire-ry. Ooh.(Let the fake news sink in.)So I bought the Blu-ray.It was all hype. That's why this movie get's a 1 for a rating. A bad movie is a bad movie, but a movie that's 'all this and all that' which fails to live up gets an even lower rating than usual in my book. (A 3 would be generous.)No, this movie wasn't a Harlequin romance novel. Those are sexier. Far sexier than this movie are the 'Sleeping Beauty' novels of Anne Rice. That's how tame this movie is, BOOKS are sexier than it is. I have submitted edits to the 'parental guide' section, detailing the extent of the 'adultness' of this movie. Just about ANY T&A movie from the 80's has far more skin, in usually far sexier ways. "Ski School," "Bikini Carwash Company" and especially "Virgin Hunters" a.k.a. "Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000" come to mind, just to name three.There are 3 'lovemaking' scenes in this movie and only the smallest amount of actual nudity happens. I believe this was done to achieve an "R" rating, so the movie would seem sexy and therefore sell. Truthfully, this isn't team Edward or Jacob, but it isn't "Tarzan" (the one with Bo Derek) either. The irony is, there's as much male nudity as there is female. All without exposing the man's private parts, of course.Let's face it, the vampire-ry thing is getting old and lame as well. There are many plot holes in this movie regarding vampire-ism and how it's shown here. I'll name a few. 1. The heroine states in a narration (red flag of a lame movie) that a vampire can be harmed by sunlight. Yet her house is an older mansion, built to take advantage of the sunlight for lighting the building. Like the "Farmer Old McDonald" song. "Here a window, there a window, everywhere a window window." And she sleeps in a bed in this house. Uh, huh? 2. There is another vampire woman who has sex with a dude to get him into a vulnerable position to bite him. She bites the dickens out of his neck, then dribbles lots of blood (the whole point of the exercise?), then leaves his corpse sitting right out in the open to be found at the start of the next "Law & Order" episode. (Lenny didn't die, he's undead and he's gonna track down these female vampire killers.) I can see it now.This movie is fairly well done, but low budget and you can tell because the effects are kept to a minimum because the killings are so low. Most of the effects are simply physical ones literally done on camera. I saw ONE CG scene. The rest of the budget must have been spent on the "stars," Josephine and Roxane. Michael Rapaport and Riley Keough never were stars, and now you have proof with this movie. Oh, and I guess it counts for 'nudity' when we see a three-inch square of Riley's tummy due to her torn blouse. I can just hear Pat Robertson, "Give that naughty movie an 'R', because we can see Riley's tum-tum for a second!"So, if you were a girl who liked the "Twilight" series and are now grown up and want to spice up your late Friday night with your husband after you put the kids to bed, this movie is for you!For the rest of humanity, Try "Virgin Hunters." It even has an outdoor scene stolen directly from the "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" series.

Sergio Mayorga This is simply the best vampire film ever made. It's got EVERYTHING. It falls into several categories at once: horror, thriller, romance, drama. The score is perfect and accurately underlines the mood of each scene transition; including several genres of music from classical to rock to electronica, the film even manages to get away with being styled in a 60's type of narrative. Joséphine de La Baume delivers a flawless performance as a scrupulous and tender, yet lustful vampire troubled by her rebellious, deranged sister (Roxane Mesquida) getting in the way of her newly found happiness. I'm sure many vampire lore lovers out there, as well as appreciators of good cinema in general, will feel that this is the vampire movie they've wanted to see for a long time. It's simultaneously bloody, sexy, smart and touching.

TdSmth5 At a DVD rental store (they still have those?) Djuna and Paolo are instantly attracted to each other. They go to her place, and what a place it is, but she kicks him out, she suffers from a skin condition she tells him. But they can't resist each other. He comes back, they kiss through a chained door-very cool. She confesses that she's a vampire and everything that entails. He doesn't care. They become intimate, she turns him and introduces him to her world- a world of art-loving ancient vampires who live in hiding, who answer to a boss- the theater actress Xenia.Everything is going well; they make plans to travel to Italy, they hunt together in the woods for animals and drink synthetic blood, no vampire attacks humans. But then Djuna's sister Mimi shows up, and she's bad news- young, reckless, fun-loving, authority-challenging. She's on probation almost as Xenia is sending her to rehab to the West coast so she's only with the sister for a few days. Mimi likes all sorts of sex with humans, and she drinks their blood and kills them, she even seduces Paolo, and has plans for Xenia.Kiss of the Damned is exactly what I imagined and hoped it would be when I saw the original movie poster, not the one slapped on the DVD. It's a tribute to vampire movies from the past. It's very stylish but without replacing style for substance. It's settles on a 70s European horror movie style. It's erotic (plenty of sex but almost no nudity), has great music, and the story moves along more slowly. There are plenty of brilliant shots and camera angles. The closeness of Paolo and Djuna is well portrayed and you root for these two.There are some weaknesses too of course. The aforementioned lack of nudity is odd to say the least. It's unclear why they cast so many French actresses, who may be good actresses when they're speaking French but aren't such good actresses in heavy-accented English. The lead actress is particularly weak, she's somewhat attractive but not enough. However, Roxane Mesquida just steals the show, she's hot and cute and mischievous.Kiss of the Damned is an astonishing feature film debut for writer/director Alexandra Cassavetes. Horror needs more movies like Kiss of the Damned and less remakes and lost-footage junk.

Taryn E Halgat 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.