Vampire's Kiss

"Vampire Kiss" is the tragic story of Peter Law, a literary agent who is slowly but steadily losing his mind. Lo is a successful businessman, his life is a pursuit of money and prestige during the day and going to clubs at night. These night outings help him somehow brighten up a boring existence.

The film opens with a scene of the protagonist's conversation with his psychotherapist, Dr. Glaser, during which it becomes clear that Lo is no longer completely healthy. His speech becomes more and more pompous and theatrical, which eventually scares even the doctor.

This is followed by a flashback scene, which shows how during one of his night walks Peter meets an attractive girl named Rachel. It remains unknown to the viewer whether Rachel really exists or is a product of the main character's sick imagination; one way or another, during sexual intimacy, the girl bites Peter's neck and drinks his blood.

After that, Peter begins to feel that he is changing, but he can't figure out exactly how. Remembering that Rachel bit him, he comes to the conclusion that he is becoming a vampire. He begins to do crazy things: he constantly wears sunglasses, sleeps under the sofa, avoids daylight, is afraid of crosses and even eats indoor cockroaches like Renfield from Dracula. At some point, Peter imagines that he is not reflected in the mirror, like a vampire.

At work, Lo terrorizes his secretary, an indecisive Latin American Alva. The man forces her to search for an irrelevant contract for long hours in folders, while constantly insulting and humiliating. When a girl pretends to be sick in order to avoid meeting with a hated boss, he comes to her home and forcibly takes her to the office. When Alva finally finds the ill-fated contract, Peter declares that it's too late, then attacks the secretary and rapes her. Realizing what he has done, Lo repents and tries to shoot himself with Alva's pistol loaded with blanks, and after failure decides that he has become immortal. As before, he continues to see the mocking image of Rachel, who "visits" him for the sake of another portion of blood.

After the crime, a desperate Peter calls Dr. Glazer to make an appointment for an emergency appointment. The woman appoints the earliest available time, but the fact that the patient needs urgent help escapes her attention.

The final part of the film demonstrates to the viewer the hero who has finally lost touch with reality. He buys plastic false fangs and imitates the theatrical movements of Count Orlok from the movie Nosferatu. A symphony of horror." Without removing his fangs, the madman goes to a nightclub, where he kills a girl in an attempt to drink her blood. At the same club, Peter meets Rachel again and loudly accuses her of infecting him with vampirism; the girl admits that she knows Lo, but denies that they were in any relationship. The rowdy is kicked out of the club, and he goes to wander the streets of New York in a blood-stained office suit. The main character is already so crazy that it is difficult for the viewer to understand where reality ends and schizophrenic hallucinations begin.

Eventually Emilio, the brother of the raped Alva, finds Peter in his own apartment. An exhausted mentally ill person does not want to live; he puts a piece of a board to his chest, and an enraged Latin American plunges it into the hero, like an aspen stake in the heart of a vampire. Peter Lo is dying.