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Blood and Chocolate (2007)

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Reviews Counted:71

Fresh:8

Rotten:63

Average Rating:3.6/10

Consensus: Cheap CG effects and laughable dialogue make Blood and Chocolate worse than the usual werewolf flick.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence/terror, some sexuality and substance abuse

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jan 26, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $3,428,910

Synopsis: A good-looking pack of werewolves that has ruled Bucharest for 5,000 years becomes threatened when one among them begins to question the traditions they have adhered to over the centuries. Vivian... A good-looking pack of werewolves that has ruled Bucharest for 5,000 years becomes threatened when one among them begins to question the traditions they have adhered to over the centuries. Vivian (Agnes Bruckner, DREAMLAND) is a teenage werewolf whose destiny has been tied to her pack since she was orphaned at a young age. The pack's menacing leader, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS), has designs on Vivian, and hopes to make her his next wife, while the rest of Vivian's "family" keeps a close watch on her every move. This makes things difficult when Vivian, against her better judgment, begins a tentative relationship with Aiden (Hugh Dancy, THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB), a graphic artist who has come to the city to study the mythical loup-garou for his next book. Vivian tries to keep her growing love a secret, but when Gabriel discovers that she has feelings for a human, he sets off a chain of events that threaten to destroy the pack--or change its bloodthirsty ways. Vivian and the extraordinary Aiden--who manages to outwit the loup-garou in ways they never thought possible--are forced to go on the run, but they must eventually face Vivian's pack in a confrontation that forces all to examine what keeps man and beast constantly at war. The film's setting in moody, beautifully dilapidated Bucharest adds an air of mystery that the special effects struggle to match. Hugh Dancy is a charmer, and the tale is a mixture of Gothic myth and teenage romance that will appeal to fans of UNDERWORLD and THE CROW. [More]

Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Kata Dobo

Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Kata Dobo, Bryan Dick, Katja Riemann, Chris Geere, Tom Harper, John Kerr, Jack Wilson, Vitalie Ursu, Bogdan Voda

Director: Katja Von Garnier

Director: Katja Von Garnier
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Christopher Landon
Producer: Daniel Bobker, Wolfgang Esenwein
Studio: MGM

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  • A werewolf tale from the producers of Underworld, Blood & Chocolate tells the tale of Vivian (Agnes Bruckner), a young teenage girl who must choose between her love for a young artist and loyalty to her werewolf lineage. Others may have secrets, but none as extraordinary as Vivian. One of the last of her kind, she comes from a line of loup garoux, shape shifters able to transform into the form of both human and wolf at will. When Vivian's affections for a visiting artist threaten to reveal her family's secret society, she must decide whether to follow her heart or betray the secret vows of her family.
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    January is horror flick month, there's other stuff more worthy.

    Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Eric Lurio
    Eric Lurio
    Greenwich Village Gazette

    Part romance, part horror movie, there isn't much chocolate in Blood and Chocolate, and there isn't really much blood, either, in this less-than-thrilling thriller.

    Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Jeff Vice
    Jeff Vice
    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    Based on a popular teen novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate revises classic werewolf legend and effectively neuters it in the process.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Peter Debruge
    Peter Debruge
    Variety

    A slapdash supernatural adventure-romance.

    Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Colin Covert
    Colin Covert
    Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Blood and Chocolate has no audience. Horror fans will be disgusted by the lack of gore. Romance fans will be disgusted by the presence of gore.

    Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
    ReelViews
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    Uninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is Romeo and Juliet with fewer manners and more exotic dentition.

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    01/27/07
    Jeannette Catsoulis
    Jeannette Catsoulis
    New York Times
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    I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment 2 Comments
    01/27/07
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Salon.com
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    You could almost overlook the chemistry vacuum between Bruckner and Dancy, but the shots of actors leaping and morphing into wolves are so cheesy that they make the bargain-basement special effects in Teen Wolf look Oscar worthy in comparison.

    Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Timothy Knight
    Timothy Knight
    Reel.com

    Occasionally there's some unintended comedy, such as the part in which a werewolf actually says grace before he's about to chomp into a man's neck. Ironic for a movie that doesn't have a prayer.

    Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
    01/27/07
    Phil Villarreal
    Phil Villarreal
    Arizona Daily Star

    For a movie so humorless, it's amazing how much humor can be found while watching Blood and Chocolate.

    Full Review Source: Mark Reviews Movies | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Mark Dujsik
    Mark Dujsik
    Mark Reviews Movies

    A pack of attractive Romanians do it werewolf style in a mixed bag of teenage romance and watered down scariness. Unfortunately, neither romance or horror enough for enthusiasts of either persuasion.

    Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Ron Wilkinson
    Ron Wilkinson
    Monsters and Critics

    The derivative and dim-witted Blood and Chocolate at least provides a practical metaphor for its own detrimental impact on cinema culture.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Nick Schager
    Nick Schager
    Slant Magazine

    This wolf story is toothless.

    Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Nell Minow
    Nell Minow
    Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

    A movie itself caught between two worlds, a sweet and sour concoction that all adds up to a lot of nonsensical scenes in search of an idea.

    Full Review Source: Maxim | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Pete Hammond
    Pete Hammond
    Maxim

    If you have a decent laptop, a copy of the Final Cut Pro software, some gray spray paint and access to a German shepherd, then you can probably make a better-looking werewolf than the ones in Blood & Chocolate.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Peter Hartlaub
    Peter Hartlaub
    San Francisco Chronicle

    Blood & Chocolate does offer two tiny consolations. At least it's not a vampire movie. And at least this bad German horror director isn't Uwe Boll.

    Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Roger Moore
    Roger Moore
    Orlando Sentinel

    Blood and Chocolate is dressed up to look like a teen romance with Shakespearean pretensions, so its problems go much deeper than the stingy use of blood and absence of scares.

    Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    John P. McCarthy
    John P. McCarthy
    Boxoffice Magazine

    It's no great shakes in either direction, but the crossover attempt is mildly interesting.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    All of these defects, which aren't unusual in movies of modest budget, could be forgiven if Blood and Chocolate were actually scary. But it isn't; not even a little bit. Werewolf devotees, however, may nevertheless feel that it bites.

    Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Kurt Loder
    Kurt Loder
    MTV

    The more we see of these werewolves, the more we notice that they come in two flavors: conflicted moping (played by Agnes Bruckner) and fey Eurotrash (played by everyone else).

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    01/26/07
    Jesse Hassenger
    Jesse Hassenger
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