Innocent Blood (1992)

Director:

John Landis

Writer (WGA):

Michael Wolk (written by)

Release Date:

25 syyskuu 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Romance

Tagline:

The legendary director that brought you "National Lampoon's Animal House", "The Blues Brothers", "An American Werewolf in London", "Trading Places", and "Coming to America" brings you the dark comedy horror film from the undead.

Plot:

Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going along fine until two problems come up...

Plot Keywords:

Vampire | Gangster | Sex | Female Vampire | Morgue

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anne Parillaud	...	Marie
David Proval	...	Lenny
Rocco Sisto	...	Gilly
Chazz Palminteri	...	Tony
Anthony LaPaglia	...	Joe Gennaro
Robert Loggia	...	Sallie (The Shark) Macelli
Tony Sirico	...	Jacko
Tony Lip	...	Frank
Kim Coates	...	Ray
Marshall Bell	...	Marsh
Leo Burmester	...	Dave Flinton
Rohn Thomas	...	Coroner
Angela Bassett	...	U.S. Attorney Sinclair
Luis Guzmán	...	Morales
Don Rickles	...	Emmanuel 'Manny' Bergman

Also Known As:

A French Vampire in America

Runtime:

112 min | Argentina:115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:16 (R rated version) | Germany:18 (unrated version) | South Korea:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Iceland:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) is playing on the television during the morgue scenes: when Macelli is first brought in, and again when he makes his frenzied exit.

Quotes:

Joe: I thought this was just supposed to be a sit-down.
Tony: Yeah, but somebody ain't getting up.

Movie Connections:

References Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

Soundtrack:

I See Your Smile

Featherweight dark comedy about a sexy bloodsucker, though exceptionally well-done

John Landis is not the type of director who goes for any deeper meaning in his films outside of the occasional well-staged car chase in heavy traffic; however, this time, working with Michael Wolk's first-rate screenplay, he excels in narrative as well as in visual form. An undercover cop in Pittsburgh, posing as a thief for the Mob, becomes attracted to the scintillating French woman who is hellbent on killing kingpin Robert Loggia (seems she's a bloodsucker by night--and forgot to "finish the food" the evening she put the bite on Loggia's Sal the Shark!). Not terribly bright, but full of puckish black humor and one exciting, masterfully staged sequence after another. And when things calm down a bit, as with the motel sequence between hot twosome Anne Parillaud and Anthony LaPaglia, Landis is adept at smoothly changing the movie's rhythm. It's an impressive, gory, foul-mouthed, yet adrenalized and satirical piece of work, Landis' best. *** from ****