not horrible nor great

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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.

I had to give this movie 9 stars out of ten because, having some background in Abnormal Psychology, this subject was very interesting to me. It is not often the subject of necrophilia is presented in a film that is non-academic or a complete gore fest. The portrayal of the main character's abnormal obsession with dead corpses was presented in a very enlightened and informed manner which was surprising. This deviant behavior was portrayed as being right and normal in the psyche of the necrophiliac and that is exactly how this type of necrophilia is described by those who have this particular type of compulsion/attraction. The sensitive, almost spiritual, love that the main character feels toward these cadavers is portrayed in a very ethereal manner and it allows us, the viewers, to almost understand the attraction. The inability of the main character to have a healthy relationship with a living being is also very common with this type of deviancy. That two people who have something of the same infatuation should be attracted to each other is not uncommon, nor is the willingness to be a participant in such a relationship. These are abnormal personality disorders and as such, cannot be judged by normal behavioral measures. This is a film that successfully taps into the psyche of this type of necrophilia that can manifest itself for no apparent reason. It is difficult to know how such abnormal behavior develops but there has been discussion that it may have something to do with aberrant development of the pre-frontal cortex in the brain, although it is not completely limited to this region. This type of development is difficult to predict or to even map within the realm of science much less cinematography. The director showed an inspired understanding of early manifested behavioral patterns that created a realistic lead-in to increased aberrant behavior. Good show!

TO me, the most ridiculous, pretentious, dull, slow-moving, sickening piece of junk pseudo-art in a long time. The directors/producer/ artwork/writer/and many other self centered tasks in HER film ( did I forget gaffer/ sound/ lightman/ catering/executive prod./ costumes/ make up/etc/etc/etc/ ad nauseum as well? ) connivance has catapulted her into the top ten worst writers with the worst film idea since I don't know when, probably forever....what a sick mind to present necrophilia anyway....does it turn her on ?........it is to me just a pinch away from snuff porn. ....oh and one more thing! Near the end when the guy dies immediately after kicking the stool away to hang himself ?......sorry director, doesn't happen that way or that fast takes quite a long time to die that way, or didn't you know that ?......do some research next time...... Sorry folks...it's my opinion.

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.