Josephina
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Mojochi
This is a purposefully simple and obvious film, but good. Could it have been more complex or developed? Sure. Did it need to be? I think not. The goals were achieved. The mood was executed appropriately, and the performances were given well enough that additional development, while perhaps useful, was not necessary to the objective.Do we need to know why the little girl is attracted to dead things? Not really, unless you're doing a psyche profile on her. For dramatic purposes, it is simply enough to note that she has a life long relationship to it. In fact, in this case there is even a romanticism & perhaps myth centering around her obsession, such that overly defining how it came about would defeat its allure. That allure is what the film is embracing, the allure of necrophilia being more than just a sexual fetish, involving perhaps all four of the principal characters, the girl, her boyfriend, her mentor, & even the custodian, all of whom have varied, & uniquely unnatural fascinations with the subject.The story is direct, & it drives straight to the point without delay, & its characters all have a purpose & design, which conclude fittingly, even including the girl's undertaker mentor, who gets a glimpse into her truth at the end & leaves speechless, knowing all too well what is really happening, just as his custodian knows too well the truth of him.Anyway, onto the question everybody needs answered. Is this arousing? Well, in any well adjusted sense, of course the notion of making love to the dead is not supposed to be sexually arousing, but the film is, or at least alluring, if not in a fully sexual way. Truth be told, there is something arousing about this film, even if it's only arousing to the subject of necrophilia in a voyeuristic way. In short, it's not arousing such that it makes you want to go hump a corpse, but it does make you want to watch her do it. As such, the film is a success at pushing the artistic envelop. To understand the level of difficulty in achieving something like this, one need only reflect on how impossible it would be to make an equally enticing story about any other abominable fetish, like fecophilia. Sounds pretty tough doesn't it? A great deal of the success in making this story alluring was in how it was presented & by whom, & I mean specifically the well played performance given by the celestially beautiful Molly Parker, whose every square inch of freckled majesty I worship, so much so that I too would hang myself, sooner than look away from her glorious visage, or turn away from hearing the hushed tones of her sweet & transcendent voiceI would feel myself bask in her radiance, even if it were a movie wherein she only sat at a bus stop & read from the phone book. I'll watch anything that woman is in, & in this case, I felt I spent my time wisely.
ellkew
This had an odd film to it that reminded me of Harold and Maude in tone. It does not really fit in any category which is always a good thing in my book. That said it didn't work on a complete level. I had problems with the boyfriend and I found it hard to believe the way he responded to her sleeping with dead people from the start. I expected him to be a little more horrified. I also didn't believe his outcome but I suppose it was always going to happen. Molly Parker was simply great and it was such a difficult role to pull off but she does it admirably. I really believed her and this world she ventured into. It manages to make a taboo subject seem quite fascinating which in itself is groundbreaking. I think it does stand true that if the sexes were switched then audiences would indeed have trouble swallowing the story but this way round it is more acceptable. Well that's the double standard thing again. Thought provoking and sensual. I take away from this Parker's performance more than anything, without her I think the film would be consigned to the annals of history.
eliezer menda
In Hebrew it was translated to "Chill kiss".The whole movie treats on cold and hot.Remember the disappointment of Sandra with Matt is connected to the hot feeling and the stuck window.Another question. How come a preteen performs intuitive death rituals ? It must have cultural roots and these are not explained enough.And the myth that mortuary workers are all necrophiliacs. I don't see their syndicate protesting against the movie.I liked it. I never thought necrophilia could be beautiful.By myself,I prefer it alive...
insomniac_rod
Let's get something straight. This isn't a horror movie. I was fooled by the premise of it. "Kissed" is not a straight horror movie like "Nekromantic". While "Nekromantic" is a disturbing gore fest; "Kissed" could be labeled as an art movie with horror tones.The movie is very pretentious. The director tried to create an intellectual drama ignoring the fact that it's plot could attract horror gore hounds.So the movie is not all a woman that enjoys having sex with corpses. There's a disturbing background behind the story. I won't get into that because sincerely, I didn't understand the director's point of view.I just found this to be a regular attempt to create a smart movie.The fact that Necrophilia is not used often in movies doesn't means that the audience will buy everything the director sells. I mean,*HUGE SPOILERS* I could only dig into two scenes.First, the "explicit" Necrophilic scene. It's not that I wanted to be it a very explicit scene, but there isn't anything disturbing about it. Sandra gets naked and rides a corpse. While having sex, some disturbing flashbacks come to her mind with classic (?) music in the background. Was that scene meant to be disturbing? I found it uncomfortable because you can say the director tried to craft a classy and dramatical scene. The result is bad.The final scene where the boyfriend tries to "show" love to his girlfriend by hanging himself so she could make love to him the way she does to corpses. Our lead female (Molly Parker) lets him die and tells policemen that she didn't try to stop her boyfriend's attempt to suicide because she loved him or something. Then she tells a creepy monologue about how his love was intense and how her body wanted him. She tells a metaphor or how can love be life on extinction. Parker rests her head on Matt's chest and looks to the camera. Then the creepy song plays.What? So Sandra made a big deal of not having sex with Matt because he wasn't a corpse, so she lets him commit suicide (she didn't do anything to stop him) and then she finds she loved him very much?!..........6/10. I love horror movies and I thought this could be one. The truth is that I sat through a very weird movie that I don't consider it as an art movie. I think of it as a movie with different intentions than the ones displayed... I'm talking about a regular drama. The best thing about the movie is Molly Parker's performance. She was very young when she starred in the movie. She looked cute and beautiful and I greet for having the guts for making a movie like this.Bull's Eye: The actors that played cadavers in the movie are listed as (excuse the redundancy) CADAVERS in the closing credits.
