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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US 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
Reviews for Blood and Chocolate
A far cry from such sneakily subversive werewolf-sex tales as The Company of Wolves or Ginger Snaps, this pallid little picture is all Lost Boys posturing by way of the sublimely ridiculous Covenant.
The city ends up being more interesting than the story or characters. Too bad we can barely see it.
The elegant decay of Bucharest offers welcome visual relief from this otherwise tedious goth romance.
A bland, forgettable, and sub-par teen marketed horror cash-in that bored me to tears...
A truly laughable movie, one that takes itself far too seriously without ever taking a moment to consider who its audience is -- or if it even has one.
A junior version of Underworld, minus the vampires, the action scenes, the cool FX, and the half-a-brain.
This movie is another sign of a growing tendency in contemporary cinema towards conspicuous imitation. It seems that originality is no longer something to aspire to.
Sangue & Chocolate talvez devesse se chamar Câmera & Lenta, já que sua diretora utiliza este recurso à exaustão ao longo da projeção.
The film's awkward connections among nationality, gender, and race ("human" and "canine") never quite cohere, but Vivian's ability to embrace her dual nature marks her difference from her narrowly focused masculine associates.
Setting up a conflict between humans and lycanthropes, this inelegant adaptation of Annette Curtis Klausse's teen novel wants to be a tragedy, with the "loup garoux" - that's a fancy term for werewolves - struggling for survival in present day Romania.
If it came to a wolfbitch fight, the girls from Ginger Snaps could rip up the entire werewolf race from Blood and Chocolate without mussing their fur.
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