{"id":1436,"date":"2010-04-09T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2010\/04\/09\/ohh-the-tortures-of-the-damned-media-services-highlights-a-film-from-the-collection-vampires-kiss-hu-dvd-6548\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:34:00","slug":"ohh-the-tortures-of-the-damned-media-services-highlights-a-film-from-the-collection-vampires-kiss-hu-dvd-6548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2010\/04\/09\/ohh-the-tortures-of-the-damned-media-services-highlights-a-film-from-the-collection-vampires-kiss-hu-dvd-6548\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ohh! The tortures of the damned!&#8221; Media Services highlights a film from the collection: Vampire&#8217;s Kiss HU DVD 6548"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is one of my favorite weird movies, and my all-time favorite vampire movie. Nicholas Cage is at his best, playing a funny role but playing it seriously. Cage is Peter Loew, a yuppie with serious problems: he thinks he&#8217;s becoming a creature of the night. But when you think you are becoming a vampire and you really aren&#8217;t, what are you supposed to do? Your first order of business: buy fake vampire teeth. Maybe move on to turning your couch upside down and using it as a coffin-bed. See a cockroach? A vampire would eat it, right? <\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t help but watch spellbound, as Loew devolves into mental illness terrorizing his assistant and freaking out on his therapist. In one of Cage&#8217;s most spectacular, yet often ignored roles, he showcases his acting prowess and his ability to play complex people in funny and nuanced ways. Yes, he actually does eat a cockroach. Check out the trailer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite weird movies, and my all-time favorite vampire movie. Nicholas Cage is at his best, playing a funny role but playing it seriously. Cage is Peter Loew, a yuppie with serious problems: he thinks he&#8217;s becoming a creature of the night. But when you think you are becoming a vampire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}