Bordello of Blood
| Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gilbert Adler |
| Written by | A. L. Katz Gilbert Adler |
| Produced by | Gilbert Adler |
| Starring | Dennis Miller Erika Eleniak Angie Everhart Chris Sarandon Corey Feldman Aubrey Morris Phil Fondacaro |
| Cinematography | Tom Priestley |
| Edited by | Stephen Lovejoy |
| Music by | Chris Boardman |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates | August 16, 1996 |
Running time | 87 min |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
Bordello of Blood (also known as Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood) is a 1996 comedy/horror film starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, and Chris Sarandon. It is based on the television series Tales from the Crypt.
Dennis Miller plays a private investigator who ends up in a bordello run by vampires, led by the Mother of all Vampires, Lilith (Everhart).
Synopsis
A man called Vincent and his associates are exploring a forest, until they find a cave containing a coffin with the skeleton of Lilith, the mother of all vampires. Vincent takes a box out of his pocket, which contains the four sections of Lilith's heart. He puts it in her body, and she rapidly begins reanimating. After coming back to life, she rips the hearts out of the associates and goes after Vincent, who produces the key artifact seen in Demon Knight. Lilith promises to Vincent that if she can have the last man in the room to eat, she will behave for him.
The Crypt Keeper is having lunch with the Mummy (William Sadler), who is boring the Crypt Keeper about his life in the film industry. The Mummy challenges the Crypt Keeper to a contest of rock, paper, scissors which the Mummy wins, and he slices off the Keeper's hand with a meat cleaver. The Crypt Keeper laughs (as it didn't hurt him at all) and the Mummy gets ready for the next round. The Crypt Keeper addresses the audience, and the movie continues.
Katherine (Erika Eleniak) lives with her delinquent brother Caleb (Corey Feldman). When he turns up missing, Katherine goes to the police to ask them to look for him, to no avail. Katherine reluctantly hires Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller), a cynical and sarcastic private investigator whose office is an old adult movie theater, to look for Caleb. Rafe uncovers a brothel in a funeral home being run by vampires, where the money from the clients that visit the brothel is put towards a major Christian organization. The dwarf, meanwhile, destroys the key, so Lilith is now immortal.
Katherine gets kidnapped when they fall for a trap set up by the now-vampiric Caleb. Rafe kills the dwarf and fills some super soakers with holy water, and he and the reverend (looking to redeem himself) enter the brothel, burning all the vampires. They find Lilith, and soon the reverend is killed by a knife in the heart, and Lilith also breaks his hand. Meanwhile, Rafe finds Caleb and uses the super soaker on him. Caleb's body is burned, and he falls to the ground.
Rafe rescues Katherine. Back at the church, while shooting a documentary, Lilith returns, leaving a bloody trail. Rafe cuts her heart back into four parts, as that is the only thing that can destroy her, once the parts are out of her body. Rafe is about to be killed by Lilith when Katherine grabs a trident and stabs Lilith's heart out. Lilith's body burns to bone, and Katherine and Rafe leave.
After locking away the box with the hearts in it, Rafe and Katherine sit in Rafe's car. Rafe begins to fondle Katherine, when he asks "What's that perfume you're wearing?". He pulls back her skirt to find a pair of bite-marks on her thigh, where she was presumably bitten by Lilith. Katherine replies, "It's not perfume. It's sunblock". Then she quickly reveals her fangs as she bites into Rafe's neck. The camera cranes upwards as we hear Rafe screaming.
Another Crypt Keeper clip is shown, then the credits roll.
Soundtrack
- Anthrax - Bordello of Blood
- Kerbdog - This is Not a Love Song
- Free - All Right Now
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
- Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
- Red Kross - Deuce
- Scorpions - Still Loving You
- Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole
- Cinderella - Love's Got Me Doin' Time
- The Herd - From the Underworld
Tales from the Crypt film series
This was the second of three planned movies under the HBO Tales from the Crypt banner. The first, Demon Knight, was made in 1995. A third feature, Ritual, was made in 2001, but released as a standalone film because of the box office failure of Bordello (when Ritual was released on DVD, however, it was distributed as a Tales from the Crypt film).
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (March 2008) |
- The key in this film is reused from Demon Knight.
- William Sadler, who starred in Demon Knight, appears in the host segments as the Mummy. The rock-paper-scissors game the Crypt Keeper plays with him is the same one he played in the Tales from the Crypt episode "The Assassin" against Death, also played by Sadler. Finally, Sadler also played Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, and played a number of games against the title duo.
- Whoopi Goldberg also has a brief cameo.
- Miller's character makes the comment "I feel like I'm in a bad Tales from the Crypt episode".
- The ending is a direct reference to the conclusion of The Fearless Vampire Killers.
- According to comments on the DVD documentary for 1941, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale pitched the original story to Universal as early as the mid 1970s.
Censorship
- In the television print of this movie, alternate camera angles and digitally added clothes are used to cover the nude vampiresses in the bordello.
- In the movie version where Lilith (Angie Everhart) is trying to seduce Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) by impersonating a cheerleader, her cheer is, "Two, four, six, eight! You can watch me masturbate!" On the TV version, the cheer is changed to, "Two, four, six, eight!" You can watch me celebrate!"
