Innocent Blood (1992)

Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.

Director:

John Landis

Writer:

Michael Wolk

Stars:

Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Storyline

Marie has two appetites, sex and blood. Her career as a vampire is going along fine until two problems come up, she is interrupted while feeding on Sal (The Shark) Macelli and she begins to develop a relationship with the policeman who has been trying to put Sal away. Sal wakes up in the morgue very confused and very thirsty. He goes back to his old haunts and begins to create an organized crime family of vampires while Marie and her policeman lover hunt him.

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Plot Keywords:

vampire | sex with a vampire | cult film | mafia | black comedy | 

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Taglines:

The movie that goes straight for the jugular.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Horror | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for vampire violence, and for sexuality and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 September 1992 (USA)

Also Known As:

A French Vampire in America

Filming Locations:

East Liberty Presbyterian Church - 116 S. Highland Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$4,972,818

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

112 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

John Landis saw 29th Street (1991) and cast Anthony LaPaglia, Vic Noto, Tony Lip, and Tony Sirico from that film to appear in this movie. He also saw The Last Boy Scout (1991), and cast Kim Coates. Naturally, all had to audition for Landis anyway.

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Goofs

When Manny (in hospital) dies and becomes a vampire, his heart briefly stops, causing the EKG to sound an alarm before it starts beating again. He then wakes up and detaches the EKG leads, which ought to trigger another alarm but does not.

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Quotes

Marie: I take lives.
Joe: Ya well, if you were perfect you wouldn't still be single.

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Crazy Credits

The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, vampires, places, buildings and products is intended or should be inferred.

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Alternate Versions

The 2016 DVD edition in Spain edited by "Llamentol" miss a couple of shots:

• When Manny throws the doctor to the wall in the hospital sequence.
• In Macelli's last monologue the line "I am the light! I am Macelli!". Also the movie is presented in "open matte" with 1.33:1 aspect ratio.

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Connections

Featured in At the Movies: The Last of the Mohicans/Innocent Blood/Mr. Saturday Night/Glengarry Glen Ross/Laws of Gravity (1992)

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Soundtracks

I Wanna Make Love To You
Written and performed by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers
Performed by Rhythm Syndicate
Courtesy of Impact Records

User Reviews

Not bad, I was entertained.

Well, I got this movie cheap online, and it was quite an entertaining early 90's vampire movie to boot.

The movie stars Anne Parillaud as Marie, a French vampire in America, who feels guilty eating "good" people, so she only eats criminals.

She runs into Anthony "Bit Part" LaPaglia who plays a cop on the edge....little do they know, they are both pursuing the same guy, Robert Loggia, who plays the mob kingpin.

See what happens when a cop and a female vampire, must team up to topple a crime ring!

Special effects are "ok" for '92, but the glowing eyes thing gets really old after a while....

The movie is marketed as a comedy, and although Loggia plays a hilarious mob boss, the rest of the "comedy" was lost on me.

Bit part by Don Rickles. The mafia in this movie pretty much consists of everyone from Analyze This/That, minus Deniro...very entertaining cast of mobsters..

Anne Parillaud has some decent nude scenes.

Overall, a decent movie, worth a rental, or for a few bucks online...