Bordello of Blood

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Movie
German title Bordello of Blood
Original title Bordello of Blood
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gilbert Adler
script Bob Gale
Robert Zemeckis
A. L. Katz
Gilbert Adler
production Gilbert Adler
music Chris Boardman ,
Danny Elfman
camera Tom Priestley Jr.
cut Stephen Lovejoy
occupation

Bordello of Blood (Alternative: Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood , Original: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood ) is a horror comedy produced in the USA in 1996 by Gilbert Adler . The plot is based on the comic series " Tales from the Crypt " by William M. Gaines .

After Knight of the Demons from 1995, Bordello of Blood is the second feature film adaptation of the well-known television series Tales from the Crypt .

action

An expedition team led by the diminutive Vincent is looking for a more than 400 year old treasure in Tierra del Fuego , which they suspect is in a cave. Once there, they open the coffin of the mummified corpse of Lillith, the cruel mother of all vampires . To the amazement of the other researchers, Vincent brings the woman's body to life, who then bloodthirstily decimates the expedition members. Only Vincent, who acts on behalf of the preacher J. C. Current, is spared because he controls the creature with a magical key. The Reverend makes a pact with Lillith, who from then on receives the city's sinners as a housemaid in a flourishing brothel , feeds herself with other female vampires on the blood of the nocturnal guests and thus does “God's work”. The clergyman finances extensive television broadcasts from the proceeds of the victims.

When the teenage rowdy Caleb Verdoux and a friend visit the brothel disguised as a McCutcheon funeral home, which is run by Lillith, they become victims of the blood-sucking ladies. A day later, his virtuous sister Katherine, who works for the Reverend Current, hires the scrapped private detective Rafe Guttman to find her missing brother. In the course of his investigation, Guttman comes across the secret brothel, discovers certain inconsistencies as well as a piece of her brother's jewelery and initially suspects that the operator is criminal. After another brief visit to the establishment, Lillith becomes aware of the private detective with a rare blood type. In addition to the interest in the blood of her victim, she feels physically attracted to him, but the divorced Guttman does not reciprocate her feelings, as he in turn has fallen in love with his client Katherine.

Lillith successfully rebels against Current, and with the help of Vincent, she succeeds in destroying the key that controls her, so that from now on she can act completely freely and completely informally. Nevertheless, she does not kill her former tormentors, but rather takes care of her competitor Katherine, whom she has kidnapped by her brother, who has mutated into a zombie, and other followers. Before that, Rafe and Katherine had succeeded in establishing a connection between the Reverend and supposed vampires.

Events soon overturned. While Katherine is imprisoned in the funeral home, Guttman and Current join forces, both of whom arrive independently of one another, to jointly eliminate the numerous vampires with holy water . The duo manage to put their plan into action and destroy all vampires with the exception of Lillith, who cannot be killed conventionally. After the preacher falls victim to her, Rafe succeeds in finding his beloved Katherine and freeing her after examining her neck for bite marks. The two succeed in a real show of strength in finally eliminating Lillith.

In the end, Katherine and Rafe are sitting in a car together. The detective only now discovers bite marks on the woman's leg while she is biting his neck with her sharp teeth.

Reviews

  • USA Today wrote that the film was only attractive to the teenage boys.
  • James Berardinelli wrote that the film doesn't have much plot. He pursues three main goals: to show as many half-naked women as possible, to show as much blood as possible and to enable Dennis Miller to verbally exchange blows. Angie Everhart seems particularly "devilish".
  • Peter Stack mentioned the amounts of blood shown in the film in the San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 1996 issue). The film thematizes "painfully disrespectful" sex and religion. The humor of the comedy is "exaggerated", the gags are "stupid".
  • The lexicon of international films means that the film is “a low-tension genre product” that “exploits the familiar clichés of the vampire myth” and prepares it in a fashionable manner. "The overwhelmed leading actor" contributes "to the pathetic failure of the film."

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The film, shot in Vancouver , opened in the US on August 16, 1996 and grossed $ 5.6 million in cinemas there. In Germany it was released on video on July 23, 1997.

The film was conceived as the second part of a trilogy after Knight of the Demons . Universal Studios decided not to produce another part due to the financial results. This was instead produced by RKO Radio Pictures and Dimension-Film under the title: " The Ritual - Under the Spell of Evil ". However, they planned their success more carefully, arranged a professional scriptwriter with Rob Cohen and adapted the story of the successful film " I Followed a Zombie " from 1943. The film was not indexed in December 2016. In January 2017, the film received the new age rating from 16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tales_from_the_crypt_presents_bordello_of_blood/
  2. ↑ cf. http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/b/bordello.html
  3. ↑ cf. This 'Bordello' Is Bloody Simple 'Crypt' spin-off a sorry series of gags ( Memento from November 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Bordello of Blood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 25, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on January 26, 2017