The Kiss (1988 film)

Directed by Pen Densham
Produced by Pen Densham
Richard Barton Lewis
John Watson
Written by Stephen Volk (story and screenplay)
Tom Ropelewski
Starring Joanna Pacula
Meredith Salenger
Nicholas Kilbertus
Mimi Kuzyk
Jan Rubes
Shawn Levy
Music by J. Peter Robinson
Cinematography Francois Protat
Edited by Stan Cole
Distributed by TriStar Pictures
Release dates
 October 14, 1988
Running time
 101 minutes
Country United States
Canada
Language English
Budget $2.5 million
Box office $1,869,148

The Kiss is a horror/thriller film released in 1988 and set in the United States and Africa. The Kiss is a late occult-horror-voodoo style film starring Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger and Nicholas Kilbertus.

A short prologue set in "Belgian Congo, 1963" establishes two of the main characters, Hilary and Felice Dunbar, and also the film's curse, as well as a cursed totem resembles a seemingly-angry leech-like serpentine figure with a long tongue. Flash forward to the late 1980s, Albany, New York, where Hilary (Talya Rubin) lives with her husband Jack Halloran (Nicholas Kilbertus) and teenage daughter Amy (Meredith Salenger). Their suburban stability is shattered when Hilary receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged sister Felice (Joanna Pacuła), now a globe-travelling model. The two arrange to meet, yet Hilary dies in a gruesome car accident soon after inviting Felice to visit her family in Albany. Felice shows up anyway five months later, swiftly seduces Jack, kills a few interlopers, and makes quick enemies with her niece Amy.

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