Bloody Mallory (2002)

Director:

Julien Magnat

Writers:

Stéphane Kazandjian (writer)
Julien Magnat (writer)

Release Date:

17 July 2002 (France)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

Evil has a new enemy.

Plot:

Heroines Mallory, Vena Cava and Talking Tina fight the fallen angel Abaddon and his accomplices vampire Lady Valentine and succubus Morphine. |

Plot Keywords:

Succubus | Vampire | Vatican | Mute | Young Girl

Cast

Olivia Bonamy	...	Mallory
Adrià Collado	...	Père Carras
Jeffrey Ribier	...	Vena Cava
Laurent Spielvogel	...	Le pape
Valentina Vargas	...	Lady Valentine
Julien Boisselier	...	Le mari
Thylda Barès	...	Talking Tina
Ludovic Berthillot	...	Le molosse
Thierry Perkins-Lyautey	...	Inspecteur Durand
Sophie Tellier	...	Morphine
María Jurado	...	L'infermiere
Dominique Frot	...	Prisonnière nue
Olivier Hémon	...	Chef de brigade
Philippe Visconti	...	Garde du corps
Justine Pouvreau	...	La jeune nonne

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/gore and language.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France | Spain

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Netherlands:16 | France:-12 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | USA:R | Germany:16 | Spain:13 | Italy:VM14

Company:

Alquimia Cinema

Movie Connections:

References "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Bloody good fun.

It's about a goverment-run team - beautiful leader Mallory, explosives expert and drag queen Vena Cava, and mute telepath Talking Tina - who fight evil, and have to go rescue the Pope when he is kidnapped by the forces of darkness. If you've seen Prophecy, or read the comic Preacher (or even waded through Paradise Lost), you'll immediately be familiar with the bad-angel storyline.

Amongst what could have just been a straightforward adventure in the Buffy/Xena mould, we get interesting back-story on Mallory's dead demon husband, who is a neat addition and really adds to the character as well as to the story.. Vena Cava is fabulous, and steals several scenes.. and even Talking Tina (who, as a child, should be totally annoying) gets plenty of laughs with her abilities to possess other people and animals. In fact, the scenes with the black cat, the bat and the rat got some of the biggest laughs of all. Also, the dialogue is priceless - comic quips, jokes about nuns, a liberal dose of swearing (which is actually very funny), hilarious attacks on Catholic religion and dogma, and even some personality for the bad guys.

It's brilliant Demon-kicking stuff, from the original opening titles to the end-credits sketch, and I thoroughly recommend it. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, and I can't understand why the IMDB scores aren't higher - but I know Mallory would have two words for you.