Innocent Blood | Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia | HOT Sexy Vampire, Mobsters, and Don Rickles ....

Innocent Blood | Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia | Never play with the food!

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Innocent Blood

	Innocent Blood Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia Warner Bros. Pictures, 2001 average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

HOT Sexy Vampire, Mobsters, and Don Rickles . . . WOW!!!!

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!!!!

Never play with the food!

Start with The Mob, throw in some vampires, let John Landis loose, and you've got Innocent Blood, one of my personal favorites. Anne Parillaud is simply delicious...sorry about that...and her "never play with the food" line is priceless. Landis took some heat about all the car crashes in Blues Brothers so he shows total restraint in this film, until he just couldn't stand it one minute longer. The last third of the film is filled with Landis style car wrecks. Very entertaining and absolutely delicious...sorry, again.

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Landis Delivers the Goods

I thought the film's central premise was too good to be true: a French vampiress who preys on Mafiosi and accidently leaves one of her prey alive. Wonder of wonders director John Landis pulls it off. Like his now classic "An American Werewolf in London" Landis strikes the right balance of horror and campiness that is inherent in the source material. Neither element negates the other and the right tone is struck. And what a cast!!! Aside from Anne Parillaud( "La Femme Nikita") as Marie, the sultry yet lethal vampiress the film also boasts an excellent Anthony LaPaglia as the undercover cop Marie falls for. The choicest parts however belong to Robert Loggia as the mob boss with a volcanic temper and Don Rickles(!) as a mob lawyer. "Sopranos" fans should also take note of alums Tony Sirico and David Proval in the cast. Perfect Halloween season viewing.

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Drink His Blood, Take the Cannoli

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.

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A FRENCH VAMPIRE IN PITTSBURGH

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!!!

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