Robert Bierman directs Nicolas Cage, María Conchita Alonso and Jennifer Beals in this horror comedy where a yuppie is convinced he is turning into a vampire and acts accordingly.

Hard not to be completely enthralled by Cage when he goes up to 11 for every scene. Absolutely untethered from reality this is both bad tasting ham and screen acting as modern art. The movie itself is a third NYC location shoot freak show (and I love that) but the bulk is spread over three well rationed sets. This works as the best way to make a low budget flick in my opinion. Dangerously close in tone and themes to American Psycho, more so Mary Harron’s movie adaptation than the actual book. It is funny, disturbing, sad and tense. Yet very much Cage’s show the whole way through. Side note: Jennifer Beals is also very good as the vampire succubus.

8

Perfect Double Bill: American Psycho (2000)

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