Review
There were several interesting things to start with. Above all The Kiss of the Damned tried to tackle vampires from a new angle. It tried to step away from the current mainstream perception of the topic which is a crossbreed of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
Vampires live among us and avoid sunlight under the guise of a skin condition. They speak English with a foreign accent which is a detail from Bram Stocker's original if i remember right. They've accumulated considerable wealth during decades and centuries on this Earth allowing them a fairly comfortable living. Craving human blood they try to attack humans as rarely as possible.
The approach to filmmaking in The Kiss of the Damned makes the viewer reminisce about the movies of the nineteensixties and nineteenseventies. With long shots mostly devoid of dialog again in vogue in the beginning of the twentyfirst century it is ready to create an outstanding atmosphere. Faithful to it's presumable inspiration the authors selected an exciting soundtrack to run in the background.
However between scarce moments in which something happens there are endless sequences with gloomy atmosphere which eventually put the viewer to sleep.