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The Kiss [VHS]

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'The KISS' is definitely in my top 20 when it comes to ranking 80's horror that has a great story, but guilty of having cheesy moments! Felice, a sexy-possessed-black magic-worshipping woman who carries around a pet cat from hell!!! She is the evil aunt that comes to New York to visit her niece for deadly reasons and whoever gets in her way, pays a deadly price!!! Find out what this horrifying family legacy is all about! If you like horror flicks such as 'The Guardian'(1990), than you'll love this one. Warning!...you will have a question or two after seeing this flick.

Reasons I love this flick!

1. Joanna Pacula does a fantastic job at portraying an evil woman!
2. That wicked-looking cat that looks like it came from hell!
3. The death scenes are great!
4. The movie has a nice pace; never a slow moment!
5. FX work is passable.
6. Joanna Pacula is the sexiest witch I've ever seen haha.
7. It's 80's cheese that happens to be creepy!
8. I Love films that deal with curses.
9. Seen this movie when I was a kid and the escalator scene freaked me out for years!
10. It simply reminds me of other horror flicks I love.

I received the VHS video "The Kiss' with a week. I like the content but the video sound while playing is not so good. The sound quality is poor with a staticky, buzzing sound that makes it hard to enjoy the video because the poor sound of the un-maintained video distracts the viewer/buyer from the movie. Too bad.

Even though this movie has a couple of "Aw Cmons!", it maintains a nice pace and has a good atmosphere. Joanna Pacula is both talented and beautiful and it is worth the wait for her to appear. The price is a a little expensive, but I was able to rent it from Netflix. I would have bought this dvd if it was under $25.

The Kiss is a sexy and scary 80's horror movie that was awesome back then and awesome now!!!!!! It has a wonderful cast and the story was basic which i like!!!!!! Its about this aunt that lives with her niece in New York only to give her this curse which you have to kiss the person to take the curse!!!! What more can i say about this movie is that it had style and even though its a little cheesy i would watch it again and again!!!!!

For a B-Horror Movie, I'll give this a "B". This movie features two lovely ladies: Joanna Pacula, who played Val Kilmer's prostitute main squeeze in Tombstone, and Meredith Salinger, who played the very cute deputy in Lake Placid. The movie was at times a little slow-paced and overdeveloped for a rather simple plot, but the production value was certainly competitive with horror movies of its time and damn does Joanna Pacula make a sexy voodoo witch! The death scenes are also pretty fun and creative. If you like 80's B-Horror, then you'll like this.

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Why, why, why does all of the bad stuff in the world seem to come from the tropics? That ebola-ish virus from the Outbreak monkey, the zombie-ism-infected mutant rat thing in Dead-Alive, the nasty spider from Arachnaphobia, and now evil voodoo relics in this movie...all from South America, Papua New Guinea and Africa. Go figure, the birds of paradise must all be lethal to survive such wilds.

The movie opens in the Belgian Congo in 1963. Early on we see that a young girl's aunt has a weird rash and a creepy voodoo-ish objet d'art. This provocative antique seems to stare at the apparently possessed aunt as she awakens her tweenie niece, Felice, from a nap with a scream-muffling stranglehold and kissing her. Kissing her 12(?)-year-old niece. Nice. After this curious act the aunt's body looks drained (suspiciously similar to the life-drained victims of the hot, naked space-vampire from LifeForce, which was released in 1985 and features Patrick Stewart--just FYI). Contrastingly, the young niece looks quite vibrant after the molestation.

Cut to present day (1988) in the United States. Now all grown up and an aunt herself, Felice (Joanna Pacula) calls her sister out of the blue. Afterwards the sister is inexplicably scared and dies in a freak accident while window-shopping for guns. After the funeral, Felice becomes a part of Amy (Meredith Salinger) and her widower father's life. Shortly after her arrival, Amy's BFF gets mutilated in a freak accident involving an escalator at the mall. While snooping through Felice's things, Amy finds a voodoo starter kit and some evidence linking her to her friend's "attack".

Felice seduces the father and we see that Felice, like her aunt, has a weird rash. Amy's boyfriend, who looks like he'd be a young fourth member of Color Me Bad, catches Felice conducting a naked voodoo ritual so naturally he dies next. Meanwhile Felice's rash is spreading--Lord knows why.

It's really no spoiler to inform you that "the kiss" transmits a wormy parasite that uses the host body until the body is all used up, then on to the next body. Does this sound similar to The Hidden? Both of these mouth-to-mouth evil worm transmission movies were released pretty close--1987 for The Hidden. The major difference is that Felice, unlike the wormy alien of The Hidden, didn't care for sunglasses and red sports cars and that she had to transmit to someone of her own bloodline.

Okay, so now I'm going to try to sell you into renting this based on a way cool aspect of the movie. If you like super-nuts, badass cats then rent this! Felice's cat is in a few scenes in the movie and is even used as a "hitcat". I haven't seen a creepier cat since the broken-backed back-to-life feline of The Re-Animator. This cat was so badass that I bet it could surely hold its own against the rabbit with big pointy teeth that murdered those poor bastards in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's apparently rabid, puffy, evil-looking, and has a really fun demise near the end of the movie involving a rake and a bug zapper.

If you like 80's B-Horror, then please add this to your queue! You won't regret it.

Great horror flick, older movie but a good one. Woman comes back to try and possess her niece.

"The Kiss" movie on vhs was in excellent condition just as described! I love this movie and this is now a part of my horror collection.

This is another fine example of a cheesy 80's movie. It make you wonder why anyone would even bother to make a movie if they don't want to put the time and effort into making a half way decent film. What is truly sad is the story could have been good, but the people making the movie seemed to just want to hurry up and make a movie just for the sake of making one. And had no one of 1988 heard of eyebrow waxing? The mass of unsightly hair on almost every actor and actress was by FAR the scariest thing in this film.

I've only seen the MONSTERVISION version on tv. I want the R version so I can see the scene where the blonde girl gets ripped up in the escolater.