Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
horrorsxofxplan9
This movie is by far the most beautiful movie I have ever seen to date. If you like dark or Gothic movies, this is for you! The acting and story line is brilliant. I thought about this movie for weeks after I watched It. I like things like Six Feet Under, and morgue movies & TV shows. This film was excellent. How someone can be so fixated on one thing, makes it so beautiful. I might be sick to enjoy it by reading what the other persons comment said but it's not sick. These things do happen and this storyline is really interesting. Okay so you may not want see or hear about sleeping with corpses but if you look past that, you'll see the real beauty of the movie.I recommend this movie. You will not be disappointed!
parallelis
This film has a very haunting, thoughtful and beautiful feel to it. The first time I saw it was at a midnight showing in the only theater willing to show it in my city (Riverside, soCal). I was totally in awe at the simplicity of the direction, the quiet, slow pace and the really great, understated, naturalistic acting. I'm studying film-making (film editing in particular) and I appreciate it now for yet more reasons. God, I wish they'd release a DVD. Kissed is one of my favorite movies of all time due to it's (seemingly) effortless yet complicated emotional tone, it's respectful and questioning treatment of it's subject matter and main character, but after all the analysis (for me) the most important and enduring aspect of Kissed is the simple, intangible emotions it quietly and slowly draws out of me. That makes it a successful and wonderful movie, in my opinion.
hokeybutt
KISSED (2+ outta 5 stars) So-so "controversial" Canadian drama... the kind of movie that people "oooh" and "aaah" over because it deals with such a "taboo" topic, in this case necrophilia. But just so the audience doesn't lose their sympathy and become too disgusted, the pervert is question is played by a sweet, adorable young girl (Molly Parker). Obsessed with death all her life, she becomes a mortician and then an embalmer... insuring that she gets to spend lots and lots of time alone with the objects of her desire. She meets up with a real live boy, too... and attempts a relationship... but he has his own problems, too... which are compounded when she tells him what she does with corpses... and he becomes more titillated than shocked. Well, you can probably guess how this is all going to end (i.e. not well). The movie is very short... and there are good performances by the two main characters... so it's relatively easy to watch... it just doesn't leave much of an impression once it's all over.
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.
