10 Vampire Movie Fates Worse Than Death
4. A Vampire's Kiss - Psychosis Driving You To Believe That You're A Vampire
AVampire's Kiss should have been the warning of what was to come from the infamous Nicolas Cage. The movie was divisive to say the least at the time, but now boasts a huge cult following, with audiences now more willing to accept Cage as an eccentric guy who makes... questionable acting choices.
The movie is played for laughs, but there is an undercurrent of uneasiness that flows throughout the film's runtime. Cage plays a self-obsessed literary agent named Peter with underlying mental health issues. At the beginning of the film he is already in therapy, but that doesn't seem to help him later on.
In a scene taken straight out of your favourite vampire movie, we see a woman named Rachel pin Peter down and bite mercilessly into his neck. However it's a sequence that the audience quickly realises only happened inside his head and from there... things get weird.
Peter starts having strange vampire-centric delusions, including being unable to see his own reflection and it's all fun and games until his clear psychosis takes a turn for the worse.
Disturbingly, Peter starts harassing women in an attempt to "feed" on them. He assaults a lady he works with and eventually attacks and kills a woman after biting her to try and drink her blood.
How someone seemingly so successful can lose their mind to such a vivid delusion without anyone else realising it is terrifying. The only thing worse than being a vampire is not being one, but totally believing you are.