Bordello of Blood

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Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood

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Directed by Gilbert Adler
Produced by Gilbert Adler
Written by A. L. Katz
Gilbert Adler
Starring Dennis Miller
Erika Eleniak
Angie Everhart
Chris Sarandon
Corey Feldman
Aubrey Morris
Phil Fondacaro
Music by Chris Boardman
Cinematography Tom Priestley
Editing by Stephen Lovejoy
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) August 16, 1996
Running time 87 min
Country Flag of the United States USA
Language English
Preceded by Demon Knight
Followed by Ritual
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Bordello of Blood (also known as Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood) is a 1996 comedy/horror film starring Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Corey Feldman, and Chris Sarandon. It is based on the television series Tales from the Crypt.

Dennis Miller plays a private investigator who ends up in a bordello run by vampires, led by the Mother of all Vampires, Lilith (Everhart).

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[edit] Synopsis

The movie opens with a man called Vincent and his associates exploring a forest, until they find a cave. In the cave is a coffin with the skeleton of Lilith, the mother of all vampires. Vincent takes a box out of his pocket, which contains the four sections of Lilith's heart. He puts it in her body, and she rapidly begins reanimating. After coming back to life, she rips the hearts out of the associates and goes after Vincent. Vincent reaches into his pocket and pulls out the key from Demon Knight. Lilith promises to Vincent that if she can have the last man in the room to eat, she will behave for Vincent. The Cryptkeeper scene then starts.

The Cryptkeeper is having lunch with the Mummy. The Mummy is telling the Cryptkeeper about his life in the film industry and the Cryptkeeper is extremely bored, insulting the Mummy in his mind. The Mummy challenges the Cryptkeeper to a contest of rock, paper, scissors. The Mummy wins and slices off the Cryptkeeper's hand with a meat cleaver. The Cryptkeeper laughs (as it didn't hurt him at all) and the Mummy gets ready for the next round. The Cryptkeeper addresses the audience, and the movie begins.

Katherine, played by Erika Eleniak, lives with her punk-ish brother Caleb. Katherine goes to the police to ask them to look for Caleb to no avail.

Dennis Miller plays Rafe Guttman, a private investigator whose office is an old adult movie theatre. Katherine reluctantly hires Rafe to look for Caleb. Rafe uncovers a brothel run by vampires, where the money from the clients that visit the brothel is put towards a major Christian organization. The dwarf, meanwhile, destroys the key, so Lilith is now immortal.

Katherine gets kidnapped when they fall for a trap set up by Caleb. Rafe kills the dwarf and fills some super soakers with holy water, and he and the organizer of the church (looking to redeem himself) enter the brothel, burning all the vampires.

The reverend from the church and Rafe find Lilith. The reverend is killed by a knife in the heart, and Lilith also breaks his hand. Meanwhile, Rafe finds Caleb and uses the super soaker on him. Caleb's body is burned, and he falls to the ground.

Rafe finds Katherine, and after Lilith disappears, they escape. At the church, while shooting a documentary, Lilith returns, leaving a bloody trail. Rafe cuts her heart back into four parts, as that is the only thing that can destroy her, once the parts are out of her body. Rafe is about to be killed by Lilith when Katherine grabs a trident & stabs Lilith's heart out. Lilith's body burns to bone, and Katherine and Rafe leave.

After locking away the box with the hearts in it, Rafe & Katherine sit in Rafe's car. Rafe begins to fondle Katherine, when he asks 'What's that perfume you're wearing?' Rafe pulls back Katherine's skirt to find a pair of bite-marks on her thigh, where she was presumably bitten by Lilith. Katherine replies 'It's not perfume. It's sunblock', and quickly reveals her fangs as she bites into Rafe's neck. The camera cranes upwards as we hear Rafe screaming.

Another Cryptkeeper clip is shown, then the credits roll.

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[edit] Tales from the Crypt film series

This was the second of three planned movies under the HBO Tales from the Crypt banner. The first, Demon Knight, was made in 1995. A third feature, Ritual, was made in 2001, but released as a standalone film because of the box office failure of Bordello (when Ritual was released on DVD, however, it was distributed as a Tales from the Crypt film).

[edit] Trivia

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  • William Sadler, who starred in Demon Knight, appears in the host segments as a mummy. Whoopi Goldberg also has a brief cameo.
  • Miller's character makes the comment "I feel like I'm in a bad Tales from the Crypt episode".
  • The ending is a direct reference to the conclusion of The Fearless Vampire Killers.
  • According to comments on the DVD documentary for 1941, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale pitched the original story to Universal as early as the mid 1970s.
  • The key in this film is reused from Demon Knight.
  • The way the Crypt Keeper plays "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with the Mummy is the same way he played the game with Death in the episode "The Assassin". William Sadler plays both the Mummy and Death.

[edit] Censorship

  • In the television print of this movie, alternate camera angles and digitally added clothes are used to cover the nude vampiresses in the bordello.
  • In the movie version where Lilith (Angie Everhart) is trying to seduce Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) by impersonating a cheerleader, her cheer is, "Two, four, six, eight! You can watch me masturbate!" On the TV version, the cheer is changed to, "Two, four, six, eight!" You can watch me celebrate!"

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