Bloody Mallory (2002)

Director:

Julien Magnat

Writers:

Stéphane Kazandjian
Julien Magnat

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:

Vampire | Succubus | Kidnapping | Blue Hair | Giant

Cast

Olivia Bonamy	...	Mallory
Adrià Collado	...	Père Carras
Jeffrey Ribier	...	Vena Cava (as Papillon 'Jeff Ribler')
Laurent Spielvogel	...	Le Pape / Abbadon
Valentina Vargas	...	Lady Valentine / Carmina Belladone
Julien Boisselier	...	Avec dans le rôle du mari
Thylda Barès	...	Talking Tina
Ludovic Berthillot	...	Le Molosse
Thierry Perkins-Lyautey	...	L'Inspecteur Durand
Sophie Tellier	...	Morphine
María Jurado	...	L'Infermière
Dominique Frot	...	La prisonnière
Olivier Hémon	...	Le chef de brigade
Philippe Visconti	...	Le garde du corps blond
Justine Pouvreau	...	La jeune nonne
Yann de Monterno	...	La goule dominante
Michel Durand	...	Le vampire 1
Ludovic Delalande	...	Le vampire 2
Jeanne Moureau	...	La petite fille blonde
Dominique Marcas	...	La cliente vampire
Rachid Bouafia	...	Le clochard
Aurea Ferreira	...	Doublure Mallory
Eric Hémon	...	Jumeau chef de brigade
Christophe Weyer	...	Zombie
Didier Alexandre	...	Homme pendu
Danièle Magnat	...	Mère supèrieure
Marie Lounici	...	Nonne 2
Cecilie Peiris	...	Nonne 3
Christian Chiappe	...	Goule 4
Xavier Loira	...	Enfant goule 1
Ariane Crochet	...	Enfant goule 2
Sabrina Leboucher	...	Soeur monstrueuse
Hugues Sugnamarcheix	...	Enfant au couteau
Rodolphe Bounatiron	...	Enfant poursuivi

Directed by
Julien Magnat

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Stéphane Kazandjian
Julien Magnat

Produced by
Olivier Delbosc	....	producer
Eric Jehelmann	....	producer
Marc Missonnier	....	producer
Franck Ribière	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Kenji Kawai		(as Kenji Kawaï)

Cinematography by
Sophie Cadet
Nicolas Duchêne
Richard Mercier

Film Editing by
Jean-Denis Buré

Casting by
Emma Skowronek

Production Design by
Grégoire Lemoine

Costume Design by
Antoine Saffray

Makeup Department
Carmen Arbues-Miro	....	key hair stylist
Frédéric Balmer	....	special makeup effects artist
Frédéric Lainé	....	special makeup effects artist
Dominique Lyoen	....	special makeup effects artist
Jacques-Olivier Molon	....	special makeup effects artist
Jacques-Olivier Molon	....	special makeup effects supervisor: creature effects
Dorota Okulicz	....	key makeup artist
Pierre Olivier Persin	....	special makeup effects artist
Erwan Simon	....	special makeup effects artist
Pierre-Olivier Thevenin	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Laurent Sivot	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marco Cravero	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Valeriane Friederich	....	sculptor

Sound Department
Christophe Bourreau	....	foley artist
Edouard d'Heucqueville	....	sound mix technician
Marc Doisne	....	adr engineer
Marc Doisne	....	foley engineer
Marc Doisne	....	sound re-recording mixer
Christian Fontaine	....	sound mixer
Franz Gonzales	....	sound
Thomas Lefèvre	....	dialogue editor
Jean-Noël Yven	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
Jacques-Olivier Molon	....	special effects makeup
Jacques-Olivier Molon	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Stéphane Gaillot	....	visual effects supervisor
Olivier Veau	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Jean-Jacques Desplanque	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Jérôme Gaspard	....	stunts
Pascaline Girardot	....	stunts
Cyrille Hertel	....	stunt coordinator
Karim Hocini	....	assistant stunt coordinator
Eric Mondoloni	....	stunts
Isabelle Peinaud	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Joan Bansillon	....	grip
Amida Belgarbi	....	best boy electric
Justine Bourgade	....	assistant camera
Guillaume Brunet	....	gaffer
Denis Gaubert	....	first assistant camera
Thibault Grabherr	....	still photographer
Louis-B. Lechartier	....	key grip
Richard Mercier	....	camera operator
Richard Mercier	....	steadicam operator

Other crew
Aurélien Dubois	....	trainee production
Betty Greffet	....	script supervisor
Raphaëlle Isnard	....	production secretary
Manuel Yvernault	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Alquimia Cinema
• Bee Movies
• Canal Plus Ecriture
• Canal+
• Fidélité Productions
• Film Office
• Gimages 5
• Mars Distribution
• Natexis Banques Populaires Images 2

Distributors

• GAGA
• Lions Gate Films
• Mars Distribution
• Palisades Tartan (2009) (UK) (all media)
• Paradiso Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Solida (Spain)

Special Effects

• FX Cinéma

Also Known As:

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:

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

Company:

Alquimia Cinema

Trivia:

At one point, Vena Cava says "Give me sodomy or give me death." This line was taken from the song/poem "Confession" by avant-garde artist Diamanda Galas, first featured on her 1991 recording "Plague Mass." "Vena Cava" is also the name of a Diamanda Galas album released in 1993, as well as referring to major veins that return deoxygenated blood from the body into the heart.

Movie Connections:

References "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

My review for Bloody Mallory - good camp horror fun

Okay. I'm not gonna lie to you...I'm a suck for good bad B horror. If they're done right then they can real fun and a real treat. One of the main reasons I write these reviews is to talk about films people haven't seen or just because afew people saw it and didn't like... so they put a bad rap on the film. I heard about this film awhile ago and it wasn't until I saw the trailer for it that I became really interested in this French popcorn film about demons and seeing a hot chick kick demon ass. Now the catch to B horror is that sometimes you can be burnt and I didn't want to be burnt again.So I waited off on the buying it until I could find it cheaper and finally I did.

This film is great. It's stupid, it's fun but it really creative. You can tell about of passion went into this film. It's a comic book come to life. It's like the comic pages were put on the screen instead of paper. It took me back to Sin City which is the first real comic film I had seen. I loved everything about this film. It plays out just like comic action horror. You have the hot Mallory played by the really yummy Olivia Bonamy. God, this girl is great. She fits the role perfectly and looks so hot. I loved all the red and her "I don't care" attitude. Every time she was on screen it was treat. This film took me back to those old Saturday morning cartoons before they got all stupid in the late 90's. I was just having so much fun. I loved the film's plot and script. This is what Hollywood needs to look at when making films about female heroines. So many times they have gotten it wrong and continue to get it wrong. Here the writers(and director Julien Magnat) aren't trying to make this film more then it is... comic horror fun. That's it. It's funny but by accepting the film's concept and sticking to it they make everything follow correctly. It's a horror action comic book... it's has to be R. That's it... no sissy ass PG-13 here. Is the script perfect... no. But who cares. It works for the film. I didn't get this film to watch real life... I got it because I wanted it to be a fun treat and boy it was.

For being B horror and a small budget this film never felt like it. I believe that's because of director Julien Magnat. His talent and flair make this film feel like it way bigger then it was. It never felt budget restricted... instead those restriction made the film better and give it it's own look and feel. A lot of people compare this film to Buffy and I say it's better. Yeah yeah I said it. Buffy was okay but it was more of drama then a horror show. Bloody Mallory( which the only thing I see in common is an ass kicking female lead who kills demons) is more fun and popcorn. I loved the way the film took it's own kind of new rethinkings on classic demons...like ghouls and stuff. I loved the ideas this film had. I loved when Mallory went into the cursed town to find all the horrors of hell. It's fun yet very twisted. This film isn't scary, not at all but it's not suppose to be. It's camp horror. It's fun and twistly cool. Now once again... the person who made this move was Olivia Bonamy. She owned this movie hardcore. She is what big screen female heroes should be like. She's fine.... and I do mean really fine. But she has the acting chops to handle this role. I loved how she played Mallory and yet you could see alittle of her sweet side in that role. But best of all the script knew just who Mallory was too and never threw in stuff that had no point in being there.... like a cheesy love interest or wannabe touching character moments(like in Elektra and every other female fronted action movie) They had character moments here and even a hint at an love interest... but it fit the story and never felt out of place.

Director Julien Magnat is amazing here. He captures all the things that make this film feel just like a comic book come to life without over doing it(like in Catwoman). Here his style fits perfectly in the film. I loved his use of colors and different kind of colors that gave this film a real interesting look. I loved how he handled the characters straight forward and never let them feel like they were winking at the camera. He kept the characters in reality but everything else wasn't. Everything had this bigger than life feel to it. I loved it. I loved his directing. Once again... the French show me something new and fresh about directing and believe me I'm taking notes oh how to handle genre pictures right. Sure if this film had a bigger budget then then it would have been perfect but the film's lack of budget gives it it's charm. Believe me that this film isn't as bad as you think. When I mean low budget I don't mean what your thinking about... which is stuff with bad actors shot on video with really bad CGI.

No, I mean this film has some great acting, some laughs and is just plain cool. But this film isn't for everyone. So if your not a fan of this kind of genre or your too cool for school then it's not for you and go watch "Brokeback Mountain" something. I'm just interesting in fun and this film delivers.