Vampire's Kiss (1989)

Well, if you wait long enough, everything turns up eventually.  This oddity received its first UK screening yesterday on one of the very, very minor satellite channels and I wonder if anyone else saw it.  In fact I do have my own copy on VHS which I bought some years back after reading about how Nicholas Cage ate a live cockroach in the movie as part of his method approach to the role.  You'll have to take my word as to how incredibly far Cage took his performance as a yuppie going steadily gaga after imagining that he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals).  A literary agent, he has been making life hell for his secretary, Maria Conchita Alonso, who he browbeats into a state of hysteria.  As his obsession grows that he too is becoming a vampire, his behaviour may seem comic on some levels, but it becomes more and more erratic with inevitably tragic results.  Cage's playing of this role is really something special to behold, even if one dismisses the rest of the film as a crock.