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Nicolas Cage stands for many things: cult actor, Oscar winner, trash icon. Among his gaudy filmography, one film stands out. The bizarre horror-comedy Vampire’s Kiss is already in a league of its own with its gross-out and gag scenes.
In it, Nic Cage snacks on two live cockroaches and now calls it the grossest and worst moment of his career.
“To shock the audience”: Nicolas Cage ate cockroaches instead of raw eggs
Vampire’s Kiss was a financial flop and turns out pretty trashy. However, thanks to 25-year-old Nicolas Cages as a demented yuppie and vampire, it has achieved a certain cult status. At least one image from the film is familiar to everyone who spends time on the internet from time to time:
Nicolas Cage plays Peter Loew, a frahlingen who spends his nights partying in Manhattan. When a woman bites him in the neck one night, he henceforth trains himself to become a vampire. He starts attacking women, terrorising his employees – and eating cockroaches.
In the scene in question, he claws the cockroach off the gas cooker, so the insect unsuspectingly crawls around. It’s part of his morning routine and not relevant to the story. Thanks to Nic Cage’s acting, the joke trumps the disgust of the scene.
See the movie scene where Nicolas Cage eats a real cockroach:
The bonus material on the Blu-ray of Vampire’s Kiss* includes an entertaining audio commentary. In it, Cage and director Robert Bierman talk about the film as a whole. The scene was shot just for shock effect and is discussed by the two in particular detail.
