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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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Jun 12, 2007
Reviews for Blood and Chocolate
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.
Based on a popular teen novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate revises classic werewolf legend and effectively neuters it in the process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For a movie so humorless, it's amazing how much humor can be found while watching Blood and Chocolate.
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.
The derivative and dim-witted Blood and Chocolate at least provides a practical metaphor for its own detrimental impact on cinema culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's no great shakes in either direction, but the crossover attempt is mildly interesting.
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.
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).
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