Innocent Blood | | Cast : | Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia | | Director : | John Landis | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 25, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 20, 2005 | | Summary | Vampires In The Mob! | Content
 | This story is very unique. Just the thought of combining vampires to the crime wave of the mob... sounds like a fun enough story already.
The plot is very simple but perfectly shown. Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going along fine until two problems come up, she is interrupted while feeding on Sal (the Shark) Macelli and she begins to develope a relationship with the policeman who has been trying to put Sal away. Sal wakes up in the morgue very confused and very thirsty. He goes back to his old haunts and begins to create an organized crime family of vampires while Marie and her policeman lover, hunt him down.
The actors are all well cast, for being an odd flick. Anythony Lapaglia as the policeman was a great role for him. Playing cops in nearly all of his movies such as... So I Married An Axe Murderer, One Good Cop etc. Robert Loggia as the crime boss Sal the Shark was a terrific villian. He'll remind you of other bosses he's played in movies, like the boss Frank Lopez, in which he played as in Scarface(Al Pacino). All of the cast are familiar faces and play great additions to this comedic horror romance. Actors such as Don Rickles, Luis Guzman, Chazz Palminteri, and of course the hot and sexy vampire Anne Parillaud.
One thing that makes this movie as great as it is, is its director. John Landis, director of so many great films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos!, Coming To America, and Beverly Hills Cop 3. All movies I can watch over and over and had to mention. Which is why, The horror and comedy is brought out to its max in Innocent Blood.
This is an excellent vampire movie. An excellent mob movie with a lot of gangster faces you'll recognize from other gangster flicks. If you love these different genres, then this movie is for you. I'd buy it if I didn't have it already. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 25, 2005 | | Summary | Drink His Blood, Take the Cannoli | Content
| Like a cross between 'Goodfellas' and 'Dracula', this goofy B-ish horror comedy hits most of the right notes and entertains on some demented level. Landis, who wrote and directed 'An American Werewolf in London', takes a stab at the vampire legend, blending it in with the mafia (of all things).
Anne Parillaud plays the sexy vampire Marie, who kills and feeds on only those that deserve it (i.e. criminals), and decides to bump off a mafioso named Sal (Robert Loggia). Things go awry, and Marie is unable to kill Sal off completely, leaving him to transform into a vampire himself. Sal then realizes his newfound powers and goes on a rampage. Anthony LaPaglia plays a cop who has been working undercover trying to nab Sal, and he gets involved with Marie in tracking down the undead mob boss.
This movie is really goofy, but it's entertaining. It's not exactly a horror film or a comedy, it really does succeed in being right in between the two. Not an utter classic, but worth a look for fans of both genres. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 25, 2005 | | Summary | HOT Sexy Vampire, Mobsters, and Don Rickles . . . WOW!!!! | Content
| How can a movie get any better? This is a MUST OWN B-movie. IT has it all: a hot and sexy vampire, mafia thugs (who become vampires), great gore and effects, and Robert Loggia and Don Rickles, . All of these elements mesh together to create a stylish, original, completely unlikely and fun B movie, which despite its gore, is heavier on humor than on horror. . . . I know it sounds crazy BUT IT WORKS!!!! . . . . and the scene with Anne Parillaud naked in hand cuffs has worn out in my VCR!!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 16, 2005 | | Summary | A FRENCH VAMPIRE IN PITTSBURGH | Content
| John Landis does well in this spoofish look at vampires. As in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, we get a darkly comic look at a seductive vampiress, played lovely if rather poorly by Anne Pirillaud. She looks good, but her emotional range is limited. Ditto Anthony LaPaglia, a very good actor, who doesn't seem to fully embody his role as the undercover cop who becomes a sidekick and lover to the vampire. Robert Loggia goes over the top and is wonderful as Sal, the crime boss who becomes a vampire himself. Ditto David Proval, Kim Coates and yes Don Rickles as associates of Loggia who also get to feel the bite. Rickles big death scene is both hilarious and gory, and demonstrates Landis ability to interweave comedy with horror. Filmed beautifully in Pittsburgh with some lovely snow scenes, INNOCENT BLOOD reminds me of a Christmas visit from your in-laws; you enjoy seeing them but if they stay too long, they overstay their welcome. That's what happens with this movie. It's too long and loses its punch with extended scenes that didn't need to be there, and its ambiguous ending is also a little disappointing.
Not a bad movie by any stretch; just a little too long in the tooth. Ouch!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 09, 2005 | | Summary | Outrageous Fun | Content
| Innocent Blood is a most unorthodox cinematic stew of mobsters, vampires, eroticism, gore, and outrageous, sometimes campy humor. All of these elements mesh together to create a stylish, original, completely unlikely and fun B movie, which despite its gore, is heavier on humor than on horror.
Marie (played by the beautiful Anne Parillaud) is the sexy vampire whose picky eating starts the mayhem. Mob boss Sal the Shark Macelli (played wonderfully over the top by Robert Loggia) is her prey when her feeding is interrupted before she can finish him off, allowing him to revive and become a vampire as well. Marie must join forces with an undercover cop, (Anthony LaPaglia) to stop Macelli before he turns his whole crew into an unstoppable force of undead made men .
Innocent Blood is at its most outrageous hilarity when Macelli is attempting to discover what has happened to him. Reviving on a table at the morgue looking like bloody death warmed over, he gets up and runs off, pursued by a security guard and befuddled medical examiner (Frank Oz) who don't want to loose such an important corpse. He gets away and heads for his lawyer's house, where the situation becomes more gruesomely funny by the minute as he and his lawyer (Don Rickles) try to discover what has happened to him. The humor is irreverent, sometimes gross, and always sidesplitting.
The movie was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and if you are unfamiliar with the town, you will be amazed at the stunning beauty of the urban landscapes that are used so effectively here. Someone has said about modern Pittsburgh that if it were a European city, people would go hours out of their way to see it, and in the gorgeous cinematography of Innocent Blood, you will see why.
With a great cast of character actors, plenty of sex, gore, vampires and mobsters, all seasoned liberally with ribald humor, Innocent Blood is as entertaining of a guilty pleasure as you could ask for. I highly recommend it.
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