Hmm… anybody seen this 1989 movie with Nicholas Cage? It was pretty bad, but I kept watching for some reason. He imagines he’s becoming a vampire throughout the movie. Cage gives a disturbing performance, but the movie is really choppy.
If they wanted to give us a disturbing look at a deranged psychopath with delusional behavior, they did well.
If they were trying to scare us with a good horror flick, they failed.
I sat through the entire thing, hating his character and feeling pity for him, and wanting to drink a lot and punch something. A very off putting movie.
I was sad at the end. Both for his victims and for him. And for me. If someone had warned me, I wouldn’t have seen it. As it is, I still had the choice to walk out, but I didn’t. I guess I kept on waiting for something to justify my staying in the theatre. Oh well… Ugh.
I saw it back in the early 90s, when it was still fairly fresh in video rentals. Loved it, especially Cage’s acting as a deranged lunatic (I’m a Vampire!! I’m a Vampire!!) and his homemade coffin. Still, Cage could have a lot to do with it, it wasn’t until The Rock that I saw him in a movie that I didn’t like very much.
I loved that movie. The bit with the cockroach wigged me out a bit… I’ve been told that Cage said, “They paid me a lot of money to do that. They’ll never be able to pay me enough to do it again.”
I thought the movie was unique and fascinating. It was all about our peceptions vs. reality. And do we PREFER our perceptions to reality?
And yes, he really DID eat the cockroach, even though the producers tried to talk him out of it. He thought it was essential to the artistic integrity of the role. At least, that was the buzz in the popular press at the time.
It’s the kind of movie you either “get” or you don’t. I thought it was a hoot myself…Timmy
The first half featured a remarkable, memorable, off-beat comedy performance by Cage. It’s too bad that performance is wasted on a movie that just sputters and goes downhill past the halfway mark.