horror feel of the film, but, its
actually rural America, with a
couple scenes of philosophical
American vamps sitting around
lamenting about how it sucks that
they must hide out from the world.
Raven-haired Mimi is the in-yourface complication to an otherwise
idyllic love story.
Mimi revels in the savagery of her
life as a vampire. She hunts human
prey, seduces them, and kills them
right in mid-orgasm (True Blood
can suck on that one). If I had to
choose my death, that’s not a bad
way to go really. Mimi, the bad
sister vamp, constantly subverts
Djuna’s piece of mind and fragile
control over her savage urges.
Mimi is the temptress who makes
everything in life interesting, but
also destroys the relationships of
everyone around her.
She’s the perfect vampire whore
you love to hate, and yet Mimi’s so
brutally honest about who and
what she is. Far more honest than
Djuna.
A note on the soundtrack:
GRUNGE AWESOMESAUCE.
The feedback heavy industrial
grunge music grinds us through
these dramatic, brooding scenes, a
totally unique style of soundtrack
for such a severe film. For a guy
like me who grew up with the
alternative grunge of Nirvana and
industrial grunge of Helmet and
Ministry, who happens to write
vampire erotic fiction, this
soundtrack was simply perfect in
every way. The music made the
movie just that much better.
I give KISS OF THE DAMNED, a
solid Five Fatass Stars:
★★★★★
En Fin, I leave you with an
alternate cover to the movie, which
is far better than the dvd cover art:
And if you want to know a little
something more about my own
peculiar brand of vampire erotic
romance thriller, check me out at
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