As a young girl, Sandra becomes obsessed by death, ritualising her encounters till it coincides with the onset or her periods. As an adult, (played by Molly Parker), she gets a job in an undertakers and later studies embalming and mortuary practice, her obsessions having become necrophillia.

     A couple of years ago I watched a documentary about people engaged in unusual sexual practices including a female necrophile who ended up kidnapping, (stealing?) a corpse and going on the run in a hearse. Both of these films shed a light on the flip - but realistic side of the Vampirotic fiction that can be found on genre shelves.

     'Kissed' doesn't pull its punches, avoiding a Gothic glamour. The eventual fate of Sandra's boyfriend Matt, (Peter Outerbridge), is like watching a video of a 'plane crash'. Inevitable.

Reviewed by Suzy Kuba.