I love watching the Independent Film Channel (IFC) to see obscure movies, but last night was pretty bad. For some reason, I awoke at 3 am sharp. Not sure what to do, I flipped on the television. The movie "Kissed" just started. It was by and large one of the worst movies I have ever seen!
Quickly, it was about a young woman's sexual fascination with the dead and how her life crosses paths with that of a young medical student who becomes fascinated by her interest in cadavers.
Throughout the movie I kept checking the info button to make sure that this was a foreign film; surely only foreigners would make such an excruciatingly weird film, but no, it was an American film. However, the director's last name was something like Steponowich, so who knows.
Anyway, since there was nothing else on except for the last agonizing hour of "Klute" starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, I decided to tough this one out.
The girl somehow becomes "fascinated" by death after she buries a pet bird as a youngster. Later, in her teenaged years, she takes a job at the local mortuary. At night, she sneaks in to touch the bodies and it provides a sexual high for her. Later, when she's a young adult, she gets butt naked with the corpses.
Thankfully, it didn't show sex with cadavers, but it did show one too many of her only look -- the glooming forlorn stare into the camera...but that's when I realized that this was also supposed to be her orgasm look.
I'll go ahead and spoil the ending for you, since most of you have probably not seen this dreadful film. Her boyfriend begs her to let him watch what she does with dead people, but she refuses claiming that it's too personal and that each person has his own energy and life force that shouldn't be cheapened by such voyeuristic intentions. He continues to beg and she leaves in a huff, I guess they broke up for that day.
The next day, they run into each other and he invites her over to his place, she accepts his invitation half-heartedly, with the same complacent stare. After coming into his house, she finds him completely nude (a naked man, I saw his willy!), but he's standing in the corner ona chair with a noose around his neck. Instead of being shocked, I asked myself, "Where the heck did he learn how to tie such an enormously large noose? The Boy Scouts?" He claims that she doesn't love him, he disagrees and he commits suicide in front of her.
The finale: she has sex with his corpse.
THE END
