“The tortures of the damned!”

Your boys are back! Daniel and Corky kick off their Cage Match series of Nicolas Cage movies by reviewing the Nouveau Shamanic maestro as a cockroach-chugging would-be bloodsucker in the Easton Ellis-adjacent Vampire’s Kiss. Cage makes more choices than E-40, all of them “Yup,” and the result is a feature-length supercut of classic Cage freakouts.

Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss bat’s-eye-view shots, domestic violence dance routines, James Caan shoulders and fang haggling.

U.S. theatrical debut: June 2, 1989

Domestic box office: $700,000 (production budget: $2 million)

Critics scores: 63 on Rotten Tomatoes; 30 on Metacritic

IMDB synopsis: “After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he’s turning into a vampire.”

This week’s referenced movies: Deadfall; Wild at Heart; Next; Knowing; Moonstruck; After Hours; Dancin’: It’s On!; Manhattan; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Peggy Sue Got Married; Eve’s Bayou; I Wanna Dance with Somebody; Les Miserables; Annie Hall; In the Company of Men; The Warriors; Citizen Kane; Nosferatu; Runaway; Joe’s Apartment; Renfield; The Shining; American Psycho; Cool as Ice

Vampire’s Kiss trailer

Wailing Cage

Cockroach Cage

Charles Foster Kane vs. furniture

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