Kissed

Kissed (1996)

  • 70% of critics liked it
    (20 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (3,487 ratings)

In this strikingly original independent drama from Canada, a young woman finds that her obsession with death is challenged when she falls in love with a handsome medical student. Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) was fascinated with the dead from an early age; as a girl, she and her best friend would… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Barbara Gowdy, Angus Fraser
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Apr 18, 1997 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Andrea Chase, Killer Movie Reviews

    Stopkewich has taken on a subject that can't help but be controversial but presents it in a way that is completely non-exploitive and non-sensational. . .it is lyrical.

  • Rumsey Taylor, Not Coming to a Theater Near You

    It is a futile claim to make that Kissed is less about necrophilia than it is about the nature of obsession and addiction. Though this is a perennial (and often generic) theme in film, in Kissed it is uniquely characterizing.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Explores the intersection between sex, death and the search for transcendence.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    What makes this film standout, is that the subject matter is necrophilia.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Randy T


    Creative progression and fantastic casting doesn't quite counterbalance the creepy necrophilic premise.

  • El Hombre I


    Kissed is the Citizen Kane of films involving necrophilia. it's directed very well by Lynne Stopkewich in lighting, cinematography and an emotional way of exploring the subject. I really can't think of any other film where the corpse is a male and a living breathing woman… More

  • Lafe F


    About a girl at a mortuary who finds an attraction to the dead bodies - it sounds bad, but actually it's quite tastefully done, and offers an interesting insight.

  • Daniel J D


    I'm still not quite sure what to think of this movie or what to say about it, only that it was much better than it could've been.

  • vieras e


    This film's not bad, but I don't know if it's that good either. It has a promising beginning but turns rather boring towards the end. *SPOILERY* The film begins as a slow-paced, romanticised - almost a diary-like - depiction of Sandra's little obsession, but… More

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