Truly Dreadful Film

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Innocent Blood (1992) ** (out of 4) Director John Landis once again mixes comedy and horror and the end result is Marie (Anne Parillaud), a female vampire who just happens to have a craving for Italian men, which might work well for her since there's a Mafia battle going on. As more and more made men turn up drained of blood, a detective (Anthony LaPaglia) begins to think that it might be the work of the supernatural. INNOCENT BLOOD can only been seen in one way and that's a major disappointment. Those hoping to see another classic like AN American Werewolf IN London are going to be especially disappointed because we know that the director is capable of doing something special with this type material but the material itself is the real killer here. As you watch this movie you really can't help but get frustrated because there are so many interesting ideas that could have worked into a good movie but it seems like they were working off a first draft screenplay and one that needed a lot of re-writes. The stuff dealing with the Mafia men turning into vampires could have been interesting but nothing is done with it. The entire erotic side of Marie would have made for a much better movie than what we ended up getting. There are so many scenes in this film that just seem flat but with a little work they could have been something better. Landis perfectly nails the erotic side of things but a lot of this is due to the beautiful Parillaud constantly taking her clothes off. The horror elements aren't all that memorable, although the death scenes deserve some credit for how much blood there is. Everything with the mob is just downright silly. The film at least offers up a wide range of familiar faces including Robert Loggia, Chazz Palminteri, Marshall Bell, Angela Bassett, Luis Guzman, Don Rickles, Tom Savini as well as some directors like Sam Raimi, Dario Argento and Frank Oz. And yeah, Forrest J. Ackerman is also on hand. INNOCENT BLOOD should have been so much more entertaining but sadly it's just a forgettable waste of time.

This film has not aged well...The plot line is that a hot female vampire who can't act her way out of a wet paper bag decides that she is going to start feeding on Mafia associates because they deserve it, anyway. (Or, as she euphemistically puts it, going out for Italian.) She drains the local godfather, but fails to decapitate him afterwards, causing him to come back to life and convert his whole crew into vampires. She teams up with an undercover cop to hunt them down.That's the plot in a nutshell. The rest is filler.Some other notes. THere are a number of scenes on television culled from better vampire movies starring Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi. There's also a scene with Dan Quayle looking especially goofy on TV. (Not sure why they included this, other than it was 1992, and they wanted to ridicule Dan Quayle.) The lead actress does a number of full nude shots and a pretty graphic sex scene you'd never see in a movie today.The highlight of this movie is Robert Loggia playing the Vampire Don. "When you're made in this family, you're made by me!"

I love this movie. Watched it over and over again on cable until I could get the DVD. It's fun although the first killing is little more blood than I am used to. I love some of the scenes that you know aren't possible if you live in Pittsburgh such as coming out of the Liberty Tubes and being in Monroeville. I know people that would love that commute. Or jumping off the Courthouse roof in downtown and ending up at St. Peter's on the Northside on their lawn. Robert Loggia is perfect as the Sallie and this is where I first fell in love Anthony LaPaglia. Best line is in the beginning where Marie looks at the newspaper and says she's going to "eat Italian tonight."

I love this movie, it has a great plot line, the acting is top notch, and there is not one bad thing I could say about this movie. I was watching my VHS today and couldn't help but think that is so much like GTA 3 but GTA 3 was made eight years later. Then I got on here and made the movie video game connections. The mafia crime boss in the movie played by Robert Loggia is called Sal or Sallie the name in GTA 3 is Salvator or Sal. The girls (love interest) in both are Marie and Maria. Also Robert Loggia played the voice of a crooked cop Ray in GTA 3. If you can rent it I seriously suggest you watch the movie and try to remember it was made eight years before the video game. Perhapse it is just coincidence but even the street shots remind me of the game. Maybe the folks at Rockstar got some ideas from the movie, but I think it is better than any crime/horror you will ever see.