Innocent Blood (film)

Infobox Film
name = Innocent Blood


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director = John Landis
producer = Leslie Belzberg
Lee Rich
writer = Michael Wolk
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starring = Anne Parillaud
David Proval
Rocco Sisto
Chazz Palminteri
Anthony LaPaglia
Robert Loggia
Tony Sirico
Tony Lip
Kim Coates
Marshall Bell
Leo Burmester
Rohn Thomas
Angela Bassett
Luis Guzmán
Don Rickles
music = Ira Newborn
cinematography = Mac Ahlberg
editing = Dale Beldin
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
released = September 25, 1992
runtime = 112 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross = $4,972,818
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amg_id = 1:24897
imdb_id = 0104511

"Innocent Blood" (aka "A French Vampire in America") is a 1992 film. The gangster and horror genres come together head-on in this typically stylish and tongue-in-cheek offering from John Landis. The film is unique in that it is set "and" was filmed in and around the Pittsburgh, PA area. The "Little Italy" of Pittsburgh, a portion of the Bloomfield (Pittsburgh) neighborhood, clustered around Liberty Avenue, is recognizable in many of the film's outdoor urban scenes. Actors Tony Sirico and David Proval have supporting parts as gangsters, foreshadowing their roles in "The Sopranos" (which aired on HBO, a sister company to distributor Warner Bros. under the Time Warner umbrella).

Plot

Anne Parillaud plays Marie, a very appealing modern-day vampire in Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. However, when she feasts on vicious gang boss Sal 'The Shark' Macelli (Robert Loggia) and fails to complete the job properly (by not severing his spinal cord), he too becomes one of the undead and begins to pass his new-found powers on to his henchmen. With the help (and love interest) of undercover cop Joe Gennaro (Anthony LaPaglia), Marie sets out to put things right.

In typical Landis fashion, this movie balances plenty of slickly directed thrills and gore with some moments of humour. Loggia's bewilderment at waking in the morgue to find a thermometer protruding from his stomach and the reaction of the wife of crooked lawyer Manny Bergman (Don Rickles) to the bizarre mayhem that ensues are good examples.

Cast

*Anne Parillaud - Marie, a lonely modern-day vampire who lives for food and sex, but her feeding is only limited to criminals, because she never, ever takes innocent blood. She has not had anything for six nights. She then decides to feed off the Italian mob syndicate, led by Sal "The Shark" Macelli.
*Robert Loggia - Salvatore "Sal the Shark" Macelli, the head (or "boss") of his mafia crime syndicate and the Pittsburgh underworld, and pariah to the police and feds. Marie, at his place, feeds on him, but by Sal shooting her in the chest, fails to finish him off. Macelli becomes now a bloodsucker hell bent on turn his henchmen into one of his "new children".
*Anthony LaPaglia - Detective Joseph Gennaro, an undercover cop who aides Marie into eliminating Macelli and his "goons" from potentially wiping out the city's population. Gennaro also has a love interest in Marie.
*Don Rickles - Emmaunel 'Manny' Bergman, an crooked attorney who keeps Macelli out of danger and trouble by not blowing his hide. Bergman is the first victim Macelli feeds on.

External links

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*amg movie|id=1:24897|title=Innocent Blood
*rotten-tomatoes|id=innocent_blood|title=Innocent Blood
*mojo title|id=innocentblood|title=Innocent Blood