Line #17 Film/KissOfTheDamned


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2	''Kiss of the Damned'' is an American vampire film written and directed by Xan Cassavetes in 2012.
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4	Djuna, a female vampire living alone in Connecticut who refrains from human blood, meets human man Paolo, who's there to research a screenplay. The pair share an instant attraction, but Djuna is reluctant to get close as she knows it could end up hurting him. She rebuffs him, but Paolo remains persistent, and Djuna lets him in on her secret. Paulo is incredulous at first, but then she proves it, and he accepts this. They have sex, and while doing so, Djuna feeds on him. As a result, Paulo turns into a vampire as well. He has no problem with this, and Djuna is overjoyed to have a companion.
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6	However, all is not simply eternal bliss together, since Djuna's ne'er-do-well sister, Maia (also a vampire) intrudes. Maia does not share Djuna's commitment against feeding on humans in the least, with her volatile presence causing trouble in the local vampire community.
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8	!!Examples in ''Kiss of the Damned'':
9	* {{Blackmail}}: Maia gets Xenia to relent from sending her away by having her tempted into drinking human blood. Presumably it would not go down well in her VegetarianVampire community.
10	* CainAndAbel: Djuna is a VegetarianVampire who's remorseful about feeding on the man she loves, turning him into a vampire. Maia, her sister, is unapologetically murderous, lethally feeding on numerous humans. They both dislike each other, and Maia tries to steal Djuna's man away.
11	* CassandraTruth: Paolo, as you might expect, reacts with laughter first when Djuna says she's a vampire. He believes it upon her displaying a {{game face}} however.
12	* DepravedBisexual: Maia, a vampire, has a threeway with a man and woman whom she lethally feeds on later. It's also indicated she hypnotizes Paolo into sleeping with her.
13	* ForbiddenFruit: Maia dangles Anna, a virgin, in front of Xenia, a VegetarianVampire who hasn't drunk human blood for forty years and finds a virgin's blood particularly tempting. She gives in.
14	* FourthDateMarriage: Although they don't get formally engaged or married, after just a few days Paolo moves in with Djuna and is willing to spend the rest of his ''eternal'' life with her. That's some intense LoveAtFirstSight.
15	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Djuna and the other vampires living in Connecticut seem overall nice, [[VegetarianVampire only drinking blood from animals]]. She and the leader, Xenia, break this but only after being ''very'' tempted.
16	* GameFace: Vampires' faces grow slightly monstrous looking with their eyes glowing eerie blue when they begin or are about to feed.
17	* HairContrastDuo: Vampire sisters Djuna and Mia are very much opposites, as signified by their respective hair colors. Redhead Djuna, a VegetarianVampire, gets into a loving committed relationship with Paolo. Brunette Mia though feeds lethally on humans and is a promiscuous [[LesbianVampire bisexual]], hypnotizing Paolo (apparently) to sleep with her so she can take what Djuna has.
18	* HoneyTrap: Maia, a vampire, seduces and has sex with humans frequently whom she then feeds on afterward (she's shown biting a man right after the act in one case). She also does this with Xenia by proxy, presenting her with a human virginal young woman (knowing her weakness for them) then {{blackmail}}ing her for feeding because Xenia's the leader of a VegetarianVampire group.
19	* HorrorHunger: Djuna explains after Paolo becomes a vampire how vampires feel intense desires to drink blood. It grows stronger the longer a vampire goes without, becoming painful. Before feeding on him, she was clearly trying to stop herself, struggling with it, but eventually loses control when they're having sex.
20	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Djuna is having sex with Paolo when she bites him, which turns him into a vampire as well.
21	* InterruptedIntimacy: Djuna and Paolo return to find Maia having a three-way. She's not happy, especially since they realize she's going to feed on the couple afterward, sending them away instead.
22	* KarmicDeath: At the end, [[spoiler:Maia is driving to the house at night after having gotten away with all her misdeeds, gets into a car accident, and wakes up the next day when the sun is out. She's killed before she can find shelter.]]
23	* KissOfTheVampire: Paolo seems to find Djuna's bite pleasurable as she feeds on him (they're having sex at the same time, granted).
24	* LesbianVampire: Maia is a bisexual vampire, to judge from her picking up a man and woman to have sex with (then later feed on). She later hypnotizes Paolo to have sex with her too.
25	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Redhead Djuna wears fairly light colors usually. She's a VegetarianVampire who resists the urge to feed on humans most of the time. Her sister Maia is a brunette, wears dark clothing and has no compunctions at all about lethally feeding on people. Both have long hair and favor feminine clothing like blouses, dresses or skirts, often of a very high quality.
26	* LingerieScene: Djuna is shown at length wearing only her bra and panties before having sex with Paolo.
27	* LipstickLesbian: Maia is a feminine bisexual who is always well made up, having long hair with stylish skirts and blouses. She has a threesome with a man and woman, plus hypnotizing Paolo into sex.
28	* LoveAtFirstSight: Djuna and Paolo run into each other, with a single glance being enough for them to fall in love. Paolo is not only drawn to her intensely, he accepts Djuna making him a vampire, after which he's soon moved in and they act like a married couple functionally despite only knowing each other two or three days.
29	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Maia and Paolo have sex in the steam room.
30	* TheMasquerade: {{Discussed}} by Xenia and the other vampires while talking at the party. She's resentful of having to live in the shadows, but another vampire notes if humans knew about them they'd be slaughtered.
31	* MsFanservice:
32	** Djuna, who's very beautiful, appears at length wearing only her lingerie and has two sex scenes (appearing topless very briefly in one).
33	** Maia, her sister, is also good-looking, having a three-way and sex with Paolo too, where she also appears topless (at greater length).
34	* MurderByInaction: [[spoiler:Irene, the vampires' servant, comes across Maia crawling toward the house to get in from the sunlight. She ignores Maia's pleas that she help, lighting a cigarette from her burning body and watching her die. As Maia is a SerialKiller, it's [[AssholeVictim hard to care though]]]].
35	* NeckLift: Maia hoists up Djuna by her neck against a wall during an argument.
36	* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Maia indicates she hypnotized Paolo into sex with her or something similar by telling him if some part of him didn't want her it wouldn't work.
37	* OffTheWagon:
38	** Djuna, a VegetarianVampire, gives in and feeds on Paolo. She also later kills Paolo's agent this way.
39	** Her leader Xenia also does this (after forty years) since Maia dangles temptation before her.
40	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They are fairly standard to modern depictions: live forever unless killed, heal instantly from most injuries, drink blood, killed by fire, decapitation and sunlight. However, they don't need to do anything special in turning humans, simply biting them is enough if the person isn't killed.
41	* ReallyGetsAround: Maia has lots of casual sex, from what's seen. It's not only for pleasure, but due to being a vampire who then [[HoneyTrap feeds on her sex partners]] after getting them close. In the film she's with four people (though for Paolo it seems she hypnotizes him so it's probably rape). All are in quick succession after just meeting them.
42	* TheRenfield: Irene, a human woman, serves the Connecticut vampire community. A blood disorder makes her unappealing, and her own mother had the same condition, serving them earlier.
43	* SerialKiller: Maia, in contrast to the Connecticut vampires, regularly drinks humans' blood lethally. She had to flee Amsterdam as she'd killed a man there and it was detected. Coming to the US doesn't stop her though.
44	* SexStartsStoryStops: The sex scenes are not very long, but all fairly gratuitous, since they don't advance things in the plot much.
45	* ThreewaySex: Maia has sex with a man and woman in the house, then feeds on them later.
46	* VampireBitesSuck: Those which Maia delivers are very painful at least. In one case, she actually rips a chunk of flesh from a man's neck.
47	* VampiresAreRich: Those in the Connecticut community are all dressed very well and show every sign of being high society types. Maia however is an exception, as she lethally feeds on humans rather than follow their moral VegetarianVampire ways, which necessitates living in a more insecure position.
48	* VirginityFlag: Xenia can tell instantly that Anna's a virgin, and therefore her blood is intensely tempting for some unexplained reason. It seems virgins just ''smell'' differently.
49	* VegetarianVampire: The Connecticut vampire community are all intent on feeding only from animals. Djuna and Xenia both break this in the face of intense temptation. Maia on the other hand rejects this idea entirely.
50	* WallBangHer: Maia has sex with a man up against a wall in an alley outside a bar, before feeding on him lethally.
51	* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires can be killed by sunlight here, as usual. [[spoiler:Maia is killed this way in the end.]]

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