sol- Realising that she is a necrophiliac at an early age, a teenager takes a job at a local mortuary and satisfies herself with the corpses, but things get complicated when a young man (who is alive) romances her in this unusual Canadian drama. While the way she pleasures herself with the cadavers feels very mild (especially compared to something like 'Nekromantik'), there much to like in how sympathetic a perspective the film manages to offer on a person with unusual deep desires, with some philosophical voice-over narration at the start of the film helping in particular to get under her skin. The way the narration keeps surfacing every now and again during the remainder of the film is at times a little jarring, but again it really helps one get inside the girl's mindset and Molly Parker is fantastic in the role. Peter Outerbridge is less impressive as her needy boyfriend. He has an unforgettable final scene that truly captures his devotion to her and extreme desire to understand her, however, at times he only seems to exist in the narrative as an outlet (i.e. someone to whom Parker can confess everything that she does). More scenes dedicated to Parker's childhood may have helped us understand her more too, but clocking in at a very economical 78 minutes as it though, the film certainly never outstays its welcome - which is quite important here given the social taboo subject matter.

talltale-1 Film lovers: Please don't pay too much attention to the Marco Devilboy review of this unusual film. I can understand someone not enjoying KISSED because it deals with a supremely unappetizing subject. But then it quietly, delicately opens up that subject (and the characters involved) and wraps the viewer in an embrace that becomes both irresistible and horrifying. The movie works. When I first saw it, it introduced me to a young actress I have since followed and never seen give a bad performance: Molly Parker. Peter Outerbridge is wonderful, too. Recalling this film now, several years after first watching it, such a rush of thoughts and feelings come back to me that I will probably have to see it once again. If you are willing to go somewhere you never imagined you would find yourself--and then deal with what you discover there--KISSED is not to missed.

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.

DarkFAE I loved this movie. I get so damn sick of the horror films that portray the funeral service and industry as gruesome, gory and horrifying. I am in the funeral service as well as mortuary school. First of all, I don't believe this movie is about necrophilia beneath the surface. It is about this woman's relationship with death. Gore, blood, guts and other stuff come from fear. There is no respect in that in my opinion. That is for people who are afraid of their own mortality. We are all going to die. It is beautiful that the director and writer were able to explore their relationship with death. Death is intriguing and dark because it is unknown. I think this movie really looked at the main character's relationship with death, herself and her own mortality through her love for the dead. Only, it was presented in a literal fashion. It seemed as though the plot was a great manifestation of the theme, which may be our understanding of life, death and rebirth. Yes, sex is life and death is rebirth. And yes, I find the idea of having sex with the dead literally repulsive, working with the dead on a daily basis. I don't believe that was the message of the movie. One thing I learned in the funeral service is that it is life that we deal with day to day, not death. It is helping the living deal with loss. That is love. If only there were more cerebral, psychological and spiritual movies that touch this topic but unfortunately we are left with gore!! Anyone know of any other movies like this?