Trailer Tuesday: Blood and Chocolate
Dante alerted me to this one:
From the producers of Underworld comes werewolf flick, Blood and Chocolate, based on the bestselling gothic romance novel by Annette Curtis Klause.
Here's the plot synopsis:
"Blood and Chocolate" stars Agnes Bruckner ("24"), Hugh Dancy ("Basic Instinct 2,") and Olivier Martinez ("Taking Lives") and is directed by German independent film director Katja von Garnier ("Bandits"). The story takes place in modern day Bucharest and tells the tale of nineteen year old Vivian Gandillon (Bruckner), who has spent her life on the run from the truth.... that she is a werewolf. When her affections for a visiting American artist threaten to expose her family's secret society, she must choose between her love for an outsider and betraying the secret vows of her family.
I can't say I'm overwhelmed by any of this, particularly after watching the trailer. 'From the producers of Underworld' is hardly a selling point. I thought the Underworld movies were cliched and a wasted opportunities- why Matrix-ise combat between vampires and werewolves? Screw the skintight leather and bullets. It should have been about throat ripping hand to claw combat...
Here, in Blood and Chocolate, we have a horribly unimaginative and low budget treatment of werewolves - humans jump, light flashes and suddenly they're normal-sized wolves. I'm beginning to think that nothing in the sub-genre will ever top John Landis's American Werewolf in London, my personal favourite wolfie flick (along with Wolf of course;)). American Werewolf is still worth seeing for its wicked streak of dark humour and Oscar-winning Best Make-up Effects (for Rick Baker's work).
So don't get too excited if and when Blood and Chocolate debuts in South Africa (if it doesn't go straight to DVD). It's made a whopping $3 million at the American box office and debuted in a not-so-impressive 16th spot. Plus it scored a pitiful 10% at Rotten Tomatoes.
From the producers of Underworld comes werewolf flick, Blood and Chocolate, based on the bestselling gothic romance novel by Annette Curtis Klause.
Here's the plot synopsis:
"Blood and Chocolate" stars Agnes Bruckner ("24"), Hugh Dancy ("Basic Instinct 2,") and Olivier Martinez ("Taking Lives") and is directed by German independent film director Katja von Garnier ("Bandits"). The story takes place in modern day Bucharest and tells the tale of nineteen year old Vivian Gandillon (Bruckner), who has spent her life on the run from the truth.... that she is a werewolf. When her affections for a visiting American artist threaten to expose her family's secret society, she must choose between her love for an outsider and betraying the secret vows of her family.
I can't say I'm overwhelmed by any of this, particularly after watching the trailer. 'From the producers of Underworld' is hardly a selling point. I thought the Underworld movies were cliched and a wasted opportunities- why Matrix-ise combat between vampires and werewolves? Screw the skintight leather and bullets. It should have been about throat ripping hand to claw combat...
Here, in Blood and Chocolate, we have a horribly unimaginative and low budget treatment of werewolves - humans jump, light flashes and suddenly they're normal-sized wolves. I'm beginning to think that nothing in the sub-genre will ever top John Landis's American Werewolf in London, my personal favourite wolfie flick (along with Wolf of course;)). American Werewolf is still worth seeing for its wicked streak of dark humour and Oscar-winning Best Make-up Effects (for Rick Baker's work).
So don't get too excited if and when Blood and Chocolate debuts in South Africa (if it doesn't go straight to DVD). It's made a whopping $3 million at the American box office and debuted in a not-so-impressive 16th spot. Plus it scored a pitiful 10% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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