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Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Don Rickles

John Landis was the perfect director for Innocent Blood, a horror-comedy hybrid that does for French vampires in Pittsburgh what Landis's An American Werewolf in London did for hungry ly...( read more  read more... )canthropes in Picadilly Square. Anne Parillaud, the sexy star of La Femme Nikita, is perfectly cast as a beguiling vampire who must feed regularly on human blood, and when she spots a local Mafia kingpin (Robert Loggia), she says to herself, "I think I'll try Italian!" But once the Mafioso realizes he's now an undead vampire, he goes on a rampant crusade of bloodthirsty vengeance, biting his soldiers and consigliere (Don Rickles, no less!) to recruit an army of undead henchmen. Pretty soon Parillaud's teamed up with an undercover cop (Anthony LaPaglia) in an attempt to stop her victims from proliferating throughout the Pittsburgh underworld. (Disconnecting the central nervous system will kill a bloodsucker, and the powerful Parillaud can snap necks as efficiently as she bites them.)

Landis keeps it all moving at a raucous pace, favoring humor without sacrificing intelligent plotting and interesting characters. Parillaud evokes sympathy even when her eyes glow fiery red and she's ripping the throats out of her victims--hey, she's only trying to survive, right? And Loggia takes one of his best-ever roles and runs with it, spouting lines of Mafioso dialogue made hilarious by the fact that he's a walking, blood-soaked corpse. Morbid humor and gruesome makeup are abundant here, as well as Landis's trademark inclusion of cameos by such horror-movie icons as Dario Argento, Sam Raimi, and monster-fan extraordinaire Forrest J. Ackerman. With tenderness, toughness, a dash of kink, and plenty of laughs, this is the kind of guilty pleasure that includes "I've Got You Under My Skin" on the soundtrack, just for the sheer enjoyment of a campy double-entendre. How can you resist? --Jeff Shannon

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R, 112 min.

Directed by: John Landis

Release Date: September 25, 1992

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  • phubbs1
    July 18, 2009
    phubbs1
    A kind of partner or comparison to his mighty werewolf flick. Landis's movie is underrated and truely thrilling. The idea is a nice take on the vamp line but the word vampire is never used in the whole film. Like werewolf the effects are really good, even now, the eye effects loo...( read more)k cool and the finale effects on the baddie look great as well. Think of it as a mafia vamp flick :)
  • bradwest
    November 1, 2008
    bradwest
    What can I say, I like the crime/horror hybrids. Plus, lots of nudity from Parillaud. Win-win baby.
  • drblood
    June 24, 2007
    drblood
    Chic French beauty Anne Parillaud is possibly the best reason to watch this romantic comedy/thriller but all horror buffs will love it for the endless in-jokes and clips from the classic Dracula films.
  • davodd
    June 2, 2007
    davodd
    A bloody good time. A horror comedy, this film has plenty of both. Actors you are used to see being very funny are very scary in this film. And actors you are used to seeing being very serious are down right hilarious.
  • flynnparadox
    September 13, 2006
    flynnparadox
    It ain't An American Werewolf in London, but it'll do. Anne Parillaud burns up the screen.
  • whispersofecstacy
    November 18, 2009
    whispersofecstacy
    Great vampire flick.
  • psyclock7
    August 6, 2009
    psyclock7
    OMG...This was the strangest vampire movie yet. Robert Loggia was not convincing as a vampire..."
  • macabrescribe
    July 6, 2009
    macabrescribe
    Innocent Blood is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This must be why John Landis doesn't get a whole lot of respect anymore.
  • jfvirey
    July 6, 2009
    jfvirey
    Also known as "A French Vampire in America" (a variation on the theme of Landis's own "An American Werewolf in London", perhaps to make up a trilogy someday with "A Luxembourg Zombie in Kazakhstan"), "Innocent Blood" is a Donnie Brasco meets vampire chick movie. But though it fea...( read more)tures some gore, and especially some graphic blood sucking (curiously fangless though, despite the adherence to such cliches as the aversion to garlic), it is intended mainly as a black comedy - with a fair amount of slapstick and silly faces.

    Robert Loggia as the mafia don who turns vampire tries to utter as many F-words by himself as he and the rest of the cast did nine years ealier in "Scarface" (I think he was almost there.) Anne Parillaud, who was quite a hit back when she was married to director Luc Besson, fails completely as a mixture of vulnerability and monstrosity, looking slightly ridiculous with her Christmas-tree eyes (that's what the alternately red, blue and green luminescent eyes felt like to me.) The black stockings and the full frontal and rear nudity are weak attempts to make her look sexy, but her hobo haircut, boyish face, bad acting, annoying French accent and total lack of class (she was going for the "innocence" of the title) completely spoiled the effect. To my eyes, she looked liked some doped chorus girl from a French rock band of the seventies.

    The film is complete trash and very exploitative (the nudity is always pointless, and there are extended shots of a dozen half-naked dancers in a strip club, at least one of whom is a pornstar.) It is also poorly constructed and a failure at any of the genres it attempts to blend. The "extended kinky sex scene" the USCB refers to is probably the motel scene, which starts with Parillaud handcuffing herself, but she soon effortlessly gets rid of the cuffs with her vampire strength anyway.

    Horror fans will probably be pleased by the various cameos by such directors as Dario Argento (as a nurse), Sam Raimi (as a butcher boy) and Tom Savini (as a reporter), and others by Frank Oz, Forrest J. Ackerman and scream queen Linnea Quigley (the punk chick from "Return of the Living Dead", doing some more screaming), as well as the numerous references to earlier Dracula movies by Browning and Fisher, "Phantom of the Rue Morgue" and Hitchcock's "Two Men on a Train." But this was not enough to endear the movie to me, and I rather feel like I've wasted 100 minutes.

    Vegans and vegetarians should also be warned that the film contains numerous scenes involving meat eating and even sleeping on meat, and sets with dozens of dead animals hanging from the ceiling. But I suppose that didn't prevent the movie-makers from stating that no animal pain or death was involved in the film. Meat, after all, just doesn't count.
  • ebbie7
    June 26, 2009
    ebbie7
    I love this movie this is one of my favorite movies.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Innocent Blood is an uncomfortable marriage of vampires and mobsters; it doesn't work on either the supernatural or the criminal level. full review

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  • saltersheppard
    September 29, 2007
    saltersheppard
    Enjoyed this movie. Anne Parillaud did a great job. A young Anthony LaPaglia did as well. He saves her life in the end. Very sexy, different and competely entertaining! Good little movie.
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