Innocent Blood (1992)

Director:

John Landis

Writer (WGA):

Michael Wolk (written by)

Release Date:

25 September 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Thriller

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 | Sex | Gangster | Undercover | Morgue

Cast

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
Tom Savini	...	News Photographer
Gil Cates Jr.	...	Dog Boy
Charlie Gomorra	...	Gorilla
Lamont Arnold	...	Morgue Desk Man
Yancey Arias	...	Coroner's Assistant
Frank Oz	...	Pathologist
Pitty Jennings	...	Reporter
David Early	...	Reporter
Forrest J Ackerman	...	Stolen Car Man
Elaine Kagan	...	Frannie Bergman
Michael Ritchie	...	Night Watchman
Bernard Hocke	...	Motel Clerk
Sam Raimi	...	Roma Meats Man
Dario Argento	...	Paramedic
Marina Durell	...	Nurse
Harry Goins	...	Orderly
Steve Johnson	...	Orderly
Linnea Quigley	...	Nurse
Michael Wolk	...	Surgeon
Russ Cochran	...	Panhandler
Teri Weigel	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Lisa Ann Baker	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Christina Jiménez	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Christina Bowers	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Kim Currow	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Christina Diaz	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Kim Melton	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Robin Place	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Regan Kerwin	...	Melody Lounge Dancer (as Regina Poole)
Tracy Rolen	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Tammy Ulm	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Katrina Witt	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Maribe Zolli	...	Melody Lounge Dancer
Ron Roth	...	Gus
Vic Noto	...	Tommy
Jerry Lyden	...	Vinnie
Rick Avery	...	Cab Driver
Bob Minor	...	Bus Driver
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tony Amen	...	Bar Patron (uncredited)
John W. Iwanonkiw	...	Guy at Gas Station (uncredited)
Lee Joyner	...	Crime Scene Tech (uncredited)
Christian Stavrakis	...	Melody Lounge Patron (uncredited)

Directed by
John Landis

Writing credits (WGA)
Michael Wolk		(written by)

Produced by
Leslie Belzberg	....	producer
Lee Rich	....	producer
Jonathan Sheinberg	....	executive producer
Michael Wolk	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Ira Newborn

Cinematography by
Mac Ahlberg

Film Editing by
Dale Beldin

Casting by
Sharon Howard-Field

Production Design by
Richard Tom Sawyer		(as Richard Sawyer)

Art Direction by
Martin Charles

Set Decoration by
Peg Cummings

Costume Design by
Deborah Nadoolman

Makeup Department
Ron Berkeley	....	makeup artist
Bill Corso	....	special makeup effects crew
Robert Kato DeStefan	....	special makeup effects crew
Diane Duncan	....	special makeup effects crew
Jim Eustermann	....	special makeup effects crew: XFX
Eric Fiedler	....	special makeup effects crew
Nori Honda	....	special makeup effects crew
Steve Johnson	....	special makeup effects artist
Leon Laderach	....	special makeup effects crew
Leonard MacDonald	....	special makeup effects crew
Alan E. Schubert	....	hair stylist
Shaun Smith	....	special makeup effects crew
Scott Tebeau	....	special makeup effects crew
Linda Williams	....	additional hair stylist
Dan Platt	....	special makeup effects artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Paul Deason	....	unit production manager
Janet L. Wattles	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Rosemary C. Cremona	....	second assistant director
Joanne Keene Hall	....	dga trainee
Nicholas Mastandrea	....	first assistant director
Susan Pickett	....	second second assistant director

Art Department
John Alvin	....	poster artist
Greg Benge	....	props
Larry Clark Bird	....	property master
Pasquale 'Pat' Buffolino	....	lead man
Megan Graham	....	art department production assistant
Karl J. Martin	....	set designer
John G. Morgan Jr.	....	swing
Ralph Roger Pivirotto	....	swing
Gerald Scaife	....	constructor
Gerald Scaife	....	set dressing auditor
Ken Scaife	....	construction coordinator
Jim Schneider	....	second lead set dresser
Natalie Wilson	....	art department researcher

Sound Department
James Beshears	....	adr supervisor
Joseph Geisinger	....	sound mixer
Mary Jo Lang	....	foley mixer
Paul Massey	....	sound re-recording mixer
Robert Morrisey	....	assistant sound editor

Special Effects by
Syd Dutton	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Robert Stromberg	....	digital matte artist
Bill Taylor	....	special visual effects

Stunts
Brian Avery	....	stunts
Joni Avery	....	stunts
Rick Avery	....	stunt coordinator
Clay Boss	....	stunts
Troy Brown	....	stunts
Kurt Bryant	....	stunts
Jeff Cadiente	....	stunts
Monty Cox	....	stunts
Charles Croughwell	....	stunts
Mike De Luna	....	stunts
Tom Elliott	....	stunts
Jeannie Epper	....	stunts
Richard Epper	....	stunts
Glory Fioramonti	....	stunts
Andree Gibbs	....	stunts
Andy Gill	....	stunts
Marian Green	....	stunts
Steve Hulin	....	stunts
Keii Johnston	....	stunts
Al Jones	....	stunts
Buck McDancer	....	stunts
Bill McIntosh	....	stunts
Brad Orrison	....	stunts
Mark Orrison	....	stunts
Don Pulford	....	stunts
Spiro Razatos	....	stunts
Branscombe Richmond	....	stunts
Michael J. Sarna	....	stunts
Gregg Smrz	....	stunts
Merritt Yohnka	....	stunts
Joni Avery	....	stunt double: Anne Parillaud (uncredited)
Rick Avery	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob Minor	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Jim Bridges	....	still photographer
Pat Dames	....	grip
Gregory L. Edwards	....	grip
Ray 'Chazz' Edwards	....	grip
Bart Flaherty	....	best boy rigging grip
Harry Greenberger	....	camera production assistant
John Janusek	....	key rigging grip
Chris Lugar	....	rigging electrician
Rick Marroquin	....	dolly grip
Frank McGough	....	rigging gaffer
Jean-Pierre Nutini	....	electrician
Ethan Phillips	....	electrician
Keith Seymour	....	grip
Lance Shepherd	....	electrician
John P. Shine	....	grip

Casting Department
Donna M. Belajac	....	casting: Pittsburgh
Douglas Wright	....	casting coordinator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Louis Infante	....	costumer

Editorial Department
James Andrykowski	....	assistant editor
Donah Bassett	....	negative cutter
Destiny Borden	....	assistant editor
Andrew S. Eisen	....	first assistant editor
Mato	....	color timer

Music Department
James Thatcher	....	musician: french horn

Transportation Department
George Bolton	....	transportation captain
Mario Simon	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Ray Cervenak	....	security captain
Christopher Diliscia	....	projectionist
Robbie Goldstein	....	location manager
Penelope Gottlieb	....	title designer
Paula Gregg	....	stand-in
Bonnie Haner	....	assistant to producer
Thomas Johnston	....	script supervisor
Steve Parys	....	key set production assistant
J. Ben Sykes	....	production assistant
Carole Wattles	....	production accountant
David H. 'Wino' Weinstein	....	additional set production assistant
Jeff Wilber	....	production assistant
Bill Daly	....	post-production accountant manager (uncredited)
Brian Easterling	....	production assistant (uncredited)
Jason Menz	....	stand-in (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributors

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1992) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Finland (1993) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1993) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1993) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1993) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1993) (France) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1993) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (199?) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar (video)
• Mainostelevisio (MTV3) (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (1993) (Finland) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1993) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1993) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Warner Home Video (1998) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1999) (USA) (DVD)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (1996) (1997) (Finland) (TV) (TV2)

Special Effects

• Steve Johnson's XFX (special makeup effects)

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for vampire violence, and for sexuality and language

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 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:R | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Iceland:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Director Trademark: [John Landis] [SYNW]advertised on the marquee across the street from the Melody Lounge exotic dance bar. The car crash at the Shadyside gas station scene was filmed in Squirrel Hill, and the nearby multiplex cinema changed its marquee to be "See You Next Wednesday" every night after closing. The movie itself featured no footage of that theater (or the street it's on), although it's possible that it was edited out.

Quotes:

Sal Macelli:Prepare yourself for a little bit of Heaven.
[presents a dish of mussels and garlic]
Marie:Non for me thanks.
Sal Macelli:Hey, mangia, mangia. You're a good looking broad but I gotta tell you, a little meat on the bones it never goes out of style. Mussels and garlic, from Munafo's for Christ's sake, come on.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Bloodsucking Cinema (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

I've Got You Under My Skin

A gory treat you can make out to

I've recently been re-evaluating some big Hollywood horror movies and I stumbled upon John Landis's Innocent Blood. I always knew it was a horror movie but I didn't know anything about it beyond that and had somehow formulated the opinion that it was crap. Well, I was partially wrong: It is crap, but it's crap with a high level of entertainment value. Not only does it have a frequently naked vampire chick (Anne Parillaud, La Femme Nikita), it's also got great Steve Johnson effects, Sinatra tunes, and one thousand cameos. It's also kind of funny and you can probably watch it with your girlfriend or whatever.

The flick has Anthony LaPaglia as an undercover cop who's been deep inside Pittsburgh's Macelli crime family for a few years before he gets taken off the case. Meanwhile there's a sexy French vampire, Marie, roaming the streets in search of casual sex and the blood of bad guys (she doesn't want to shed any innocent blood, hence the title). So gangsters start dropping. Marie sucks 'em dry then blows their li'l heads off with a shotgun so they don't come back to life. One exception to her regular schtick comes via an interruption on her feeding on Sal The Shark (Robert Loggia), leader of the Macelli family, who doesn't ultimately get his head blown off but instead comes back to life a while after he's attacked. This is no good. So Marie and Joe (LaPaglia) team up to stop him. But Sal at this point is thinking' he's invincible and proceeds to bite everyone in his crew. Incidentally, his scum lawyer (Don Rickles) has one of the best on screen deaths in the movie. But that's besides the point, cause there's also a love connection being made between Marie and Joe, who have to learn to trust each other. That's right, it's a romantic comedy, too.

Innocent Blood has some things going for it--the aforementioned nudity (forgot to mention the strip club scene with Teri Weigel) and gore, actual celebrities, big-budget glossy production values, a few laughs, etc.--but it also has some substantial minuses. Number one in the minus column would be the acting of Prillaud. This is automatically disqualified as a minus because she does in fact give us some full frontal love. Second minus: Don Rickles has nary a funny line--why not use a comedian for comedy? Actually, a lot of the talent in this movie is underused--Luis Guzman, anyone? Third minus: There's too much going on to try to pull this film off as slickly as it was obviously intended to be. A lot of the comedy made me groan and the film just seemed overly long for the brain candy it should be. The fact that traditional vampire traits (such as how they can be killed) are toyed with also bugs me a bit.

Innocent Blood is a gangster/horror/romantic comedy and as such is in a class by itself. It's a great flick for the six bucks I spent on it but it also has some distracting flaws that take away the edge. It would prolly make a good date movie as it's pretty damn entertaining, but it could've been done better, IMHO. I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10.