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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Peter tries to bully Alva by making her watch him humiliate himself with a "song and dance" apology to Der Spiegel over his contract. Instead, Der Spiegel had called to apologize over being so pushy over the copy he requested. Peter then plays off the interaction as an instance of TranquilFury (when it really wasn't) before threatening to fire Alva if she doesn't find it.
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-->'’'Peter Loew''': [''staring at Alva, his eyes getting increasingly wider and more crazed-looking''] Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. ''The lowest''. Do you realize that? Every other secretary here has been here longer than you, Alva. Every one. And even if there was someone here who was here even one day longer than you, I still wouldn't ask that person to partake in such a miserable job as long as you were around. That's right, Alva. It's a horrible, horrible job; sifting through old contract after old contract. I couldn't think of a more horrible job if I wanted to. ''And you have to do it!'' You have to or I'll fire you. You understand? Do you? Good.
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-->'’'Peter Loew''': [''staring at Alva, his eyes getting increasingly wider and more crazed-looking''] Alva, there is no one else in this entire office that I could possibly ask to share such a horrible job. You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. ''The lowest''. Do you realize that? Every other secretary here has been here longer than you, Alva. Every one. And even if there was someone here who was here even one day longer than you, I still wouldn't ask that person to partake in such a miserable job as long as you were around. That's right, Alva. It's a horrible, horrible job; sifting through old contract after old contract. I couldn't think of a more horrible job if I wanted to. ''And you have to do it!'' You have to or I'll fire you. You understand? Do you? Good.
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* BossUnfavoriteEmployee: Peter's mistreatment of Alva, explained in [[ColdHam in an extremely deadpan fashion by Peter]], is only to her and no other employee, and he seems to relish the control. [[spoiler:His hatred of her get to a serious extreme when he rapes her.]]
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* BossUnfavoriteEmployee: BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: Peter's mistreatment of Alva, explained in [[ColdHam in an extremely deadpan fashion by Peter]], is only to her and no other employee, and he seems to relish the control. [[spoiler:His hatred of her get to a serious extreme when he rapes her.]]
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* BossUnfavoriteEmployee: Peter's mistreatment of Alva, explained in [[ColdHam in an extremely deadpan fashion by Peter]], is only to her and no other employee, and he seems to relish the control. [[spoiler:His hatred of her get to a serious extreme when he rapes her.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: Whether Peter Lowe is becoming a vampire, going insane, or both. The movie leans toward it all being in Peter's head or suffering from rabies. [[spoiler: But he encounters his creator in a club before meeting the "real" her and she's wearing the same clothes. Which implies she may well be RealAfterAll.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: This is an overall theme with this movie, since [[spoiler: it's never explicitly stated whether or not Peter is really a vampire (although there are several clues that he probably isn't).]]
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** This is an overall theme with this movie, since [[spoiler: it's never explicitly stated whether or not Peter is really avampire (although vampire. The movie leans toward Peter just going insane but there are several clues a few events that he probably isn't).make it ambiguous.]]
** This is an overall theme with this movie, since [[spoiler: it's never explicitly stated whether or not Peter is really a
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rachel gives Peter one of these after he murders a woman and is clearly disgusted with the monster that he has become. Whether he hallucinates it all or not is ambiguous.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peter's weird high-class accent seems to soften depending on who he's talking to. The best comparison is that it sounds like a mix of [[Film/BillAndTed Ted Theodore Logan]] and [[Film/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]. [[http://366weirdmovies.com/list-candidate-vampires-kiss-1988/ One review]] even described it as a "from-nowhere accent". Nicolas Cage has said it was a deliberate acting choice - the accent is meant to be entirely put-on by the character, and is at its strongest in scenes where Peter is trying to impress people with how smart and sophisticated he is.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Peter's weird high-class accent seems to soften depending on who he's talking to. The best comparison is that it sounds like a mix of [[Film/BillAndTed [[Franchise/BillAndTed Ted Theodore Logan]] and [[Film/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]. [[http://366weirdmovies.com/list-candidate-vampires-kiss-1988/ One review]] even described it as a "from-nowhere accent". Nicolas Cage has said it was a deliberate acting choice - the accent is meant to be entirely put-on by the character, and is at its strongest in scenes where Peter is trying to impress people with how smart and sophisticated he is.
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* KissOfTheVampire: Peter comes to enjoy being bitten and fed on by Rachel, coming back for more multiple times. It may just be [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness all just in his mind]] however.
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* {{Hallucinations}}: Although a lot is [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness left unclear]] as to whether it really happens or Peter's imagining it, he does have an entire conversation with a statue believing it's his therapist near the end.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Peter becomes increasingly violent as he loses his mind in the film, to the point of committing rape and murder. It's {{justified|trope}} though as his delusion involves believing he's a vampire. He also [[ReluctantPsycho hates what he's becoming]] and even [[DeathSeeker wants to die]] by the end over it.
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* ReluctantPsycho: Peter's descent into madness is not willingly, at times apologizing in a seemingly genuine fashion to Alva for his abusive acts and begging her and others to kill him later on.
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Rachel, as a vampire, is really a figment of Peter's insane mind. It does appear that there's a real woman named Rachel, although it's ambiguous as to whether or not she knows him as anything other than a one-night stand.]]
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* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Rachel, as a vampire, is really seems to be a figment of Peter's insane mind. It does appear that there's a real woman named Rachel, although it's ambiguous as to whether or not she knows him as anything other than a one-night stand.]]
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* TheRenfield: Peter to Rachel. He even eats a cockroach. [[spoiler:However Rachel is just a hallucination of Peter's.]]
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* TheGhost: Frank Heatherton. However, we do hear him speaking to Peter over the phone, where he seems to be a NiceGuy and is understanding about the time it will take to find the file. Due to Peter's insanity, he believes that Frank is angry over it and is willing to cut ties with him.
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* TheKilljoy: In one scene, Peter grabs a rubber duck from a secretary's desk and coldly drops it into a wastebasket as he walks by.
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* LaughablyEvil: Peter may be a [[BadBoss horrible boss]], [[spoiler:a rapist, and a murderer]], but many of his [[LargeHam actions]] and [[FunnySchizophrenia antics]] make him hilarious to watch.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Alva is a meek, mild-mannered woman who rarely ever curses, except for one instance where she demands her brother to "give [her] the ''fucking'' gun!" to scare Peter from terrorizing her further.
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** [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by Rachel after she stops Peter from answering his telephone while she bites him/makes out with him.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The movie ends with Alva's brother tracking down Peter and staking him in the heart after [[RapeAndRevenge Alva tells him that Peter raped her.]]]]
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Peter snatches a pigeon and eats it raw late in the movie.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Peter snatches a pigeon and eats it raw late in the movie. He also eats a cockroach alive after finding it crawling around on his stove earlier.
