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KISS: eXposed

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  • 19871987
  • 1h 30m
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Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Eric Carr, and KISS in Kiss: X-treme Close-Up (1992)
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A mix of mock documentary footage, interviews, comedy sketches, videos and live clips from the then 14 year history of Kiss.A mix of mock documentary footage, interviews, comedy sketches, videos and live clips from the then 14 year history of Kiss.A mix of mock documentary footage, interviews, comedy sketches, videos and live clips from the then 14 year history of Kiss.
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  • Director
    • Claude Borenzweig
  • Writers
    • Claude Borenzweig
    • Len Epand
    • David Greenberg(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Paul Stanley
    • Gene Simmons
    • Bruce Kulick
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  • Director
    • Claude Borenzweig
  • Writers
    • Claude Borenzweig
    • Len Epand
    • David Greenberg(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Paul Stanley
    • Gene Simmons
    • Bruce Kulick
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    Eric Carr
    Eric Carr
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    Peter Criss
    Peter Criss
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    Ace Frehley
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    Vinnie Vincent
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    Mark St. John
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    KISS Exposed at the time was a welcomed video.
    You had to be there when the original VHS was released in the '80's to appreciate the DVD release. As a die-hard fan going all the way back to '76 getting any KISS video footage was a dream come true.

    Even the days before Beta & VHS started to emerge the quest to somehow get KISS on film was there.

    In the mid-eighties I hooked into the KISS bootleg VHS pipeline. The problem? Bad quality, multi-generational dubs that resulted in barely watchable material. If you weren't at the top of the KISS bootleg food chain back then you were at the bottom.

    Then KISS Exposed was announced that gave some promise to die-hard fans getting at least some quality video direct from the band itself. There were radio commercials, magazine ads that announced the soon arrival of the first official KISS video to have lots of makeup footage included.

    Then the release date got pushed back! Yep that's right even back in the early days of video releases KISS started off with pushing back release dates.

    When it finally came out it was worth the wait at least for the older makeup footage. Now you really had to be a 'Fridays' fan to appreciate Mark Blankfield's humor and role here. But even with the totally cheesy acting and bogus story of Paul's mansion (it was NOT!) and none of the autos in the front were even owned by any of the members. The scantly clad women everywhere were just nothing more than set dressing to emulate a party lifestyle.

    It would have been much better just to present it straight forward like the KISSOLOGY sets but I guess the band felt they needed to be 'in it' trying to convey some kind of 'Rock Star' lifestyle and humor.

    But it is what it is, I enjoy the humor and you just have to kinda laugh at what the band was trying to do good or bad. The fact that Eric and Bruce were mostly absent from it was probably a good thing for them I'm sure they never minded about that seeing how cheesy it got.

    Some of the live footage at the time was not embedded heavily in the bootleg market at the time. So seeing the single snippets on Exposed threw us video hungry maniacs into a frenzy.

    One in particular was the San Francisco Winterland B&W live footage. But not long after Exposed was released it made it's way into bootleggers hands.

    Also having actual non-makeup MTV style videos with stereo audio was a plus for those of us that didn't have cable/MTV so we could tape them from television.

    So I was more than glad to see Exposed finally make it to DVD after having to wait for the original VHS release back then. The DVD brings better quality to the table not to mention the ability to just play the video's and skip all the malarkey.

    Even with it's cheesiness it's still a great addition to the KISS video catalog. It was my first volume of KISSOLOGY so to speak back when it was originally released. It was one of those things you thought the band would never actually do. So most of us thought we were stuck with the inferior quality from the bootleg market. Exposed gave us hope that things would improve.

    It was not the end all KISS video but it does have a lot of nostalgia for me. So I give it an 8 for the video content alone and what it represented to us fans back in the '80's.

    Later video releases like 'Konfidential' & 'KISS My A**' had sub-standard footage quality compared to what the bootleg market offered in some cases. That fact was somewhat strange.

    Exposed serves as the first official video acknowledgment by the band of the makeup years and so is part of KISSTORY!
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      • May 18, 1987 (United States)
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