QWas Rachel a real vampire?
AMost viewers believe that Rachel was a real person who met Peter in the nightclub and that she was not a vampire. Where they are split is on whether or not she ever went home with Peter.
AHard to tell. In the scene itself, Peter chases Alva into the basement. She pleads with him not to rape her and shoots at him with her gun loaded with blanks. That only reinforces Peter's belief that he's a vampire and can't be killed by bullets. He hits her to stop her hysterics, then rips open her blouse. She falls to the floor and he begins kissing her neck. Alva then becomes Rachel, and Peter crawls off into a corner, still fully clothed, and tests his theory that he's a vampire by firing the gun into his mouth. When it doesn't kill him, he crawls back to Alva, prods her back to consciousness, rips the crucifix from around her neck, and the scene ends. No evidence that a rape took place. Peter later admits to his psychiatrist, Dr Glaser (Elizabeth Ashley) that he 'did rape someone a couple nights ago...a girl at the office.' Whatever, Alva certainly feels violated.
QWhat is 'Vampire's Kiss' about?
AAfter a harrowing encounter with a bat in his bedroom, New York literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) meets a woman in a nightclub. Later, in the course of love-making, Rachel (Jennifer Beals) suddenly reveals her fangs and bites him in the neck. Soon thereafter, Peter begins to believe that he, too, is turning into a vampire. He becomes sensitive to light, eats cockroaches and pigeons, buys himself a pair of plastic fangs when his vampire fangs don't come in, and turns his couch upside down so that he can sleep under it like a coffin. At work, he takes out his growing discomfort on his secretary Alva Restrepo (Maria Conchita Alonso), who knows only that she is growing increasingly afraid of her boss' strange behavior.
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