Synopsis
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
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Cast
- Dennis MillerRafe Guttman
- Erika EleniakKatherine Verdoux
- Angie EverhartLillith
- Chris SarandonReverend Current
- Corey FeldmanCaleb Verdoux
- William SadlerMummy
- Aubrey MorrisMcCutcheon
- Phil FondacaroVincent Prather
- Kiara HunterTamara
- Leslie Ann PhillipsPatrice
Recommendations
- 63
Boston Globe
It's still a film with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, most provided by comedian Dennis Miller. On first glance it would appear Miller is horribly miscast in this predictable fang flick. But Miller's ceaseless verbal machine gun of one-liners salvages the movie. [16 Aug 1996, p.D3] - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
But genre fans likely will enjoy Bordello of Blood, which delivers lots of dazzling special effects by Available Light Ltd., including exploding bodies galore. - 50
ReelViews
I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I liked parts of Bordello of Blood -- it is, after all, a pretty sick motion picture. Alas, the sense of bloody good fun gets stretched too thin. There's not enough material here to sustain the running length, and the film goes through dead patches (most of which occur when Miller isn't on screen). All of the stuff with Chris Sarandon is a waste of time that should have been relegated to the cutting room floor -- except that would have trimmed Bordello of Blood to an unacceptably short sixty minutes or so. - 30
Variety
Neither funny enough nor scary enough to be satisfying as either a shocker or a spoof. - 30
The New York Times
Vampires aren't the only things in Bordello of Blood that can't stand up to daylight. Neither can the plot. - 30
Washington Post
Triple the length of its cable television inspiration, Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood is triple the gore, triple the naked women, but not, alas, triple the fun. Comic takes on vampires have been done better, less bloodily and with more clothing, but always without the benefit of a wildly popular franchise like this HBO series. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Bordello of Blood easily could have been called "Bore- dello of Blood." This gory vampire spoof is remarkably free of jolts, hardly registering as a fright film, with a series of weak special effects involving many globs of guts...The big themes in this lackluster second feature under the "Tales From the Crypt" banner are sex and religion. Both are presented with painfully sophomoric irreverence. - 25
Chicago Tribune
What is it about vampires that brings out the worst in filmmakers these days? [16 Aug 1996, p.2]
