Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood

Name: Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: August 16, 1996
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Angie Everhart, Aubrey Morris, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman, Dennis Miller

1996

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 16, 1996 | TV-MA

Starring: Angie Everhart, Aubrey Morris, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman, Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, John Kassir, Kiara Hunter, Phil Fondacaro, William Sadler

Summary: The Crypt Keeper returns to tell the story of a funeral parlor that moonlights as a vampire bordello.

Director: Gilbert Adler

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 87 min

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Jack Mathews

What it lacks in irony and suspense, Gilbert Adler's Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood makes up for in whimsy and cheeky self-assurance. The second feature to emerge from the long-running HBO horror show is a bawdy romp into vampire mythology, an empty-headed joyride into a crypt that resembles a costume party orgy. This is the version of "Dracula" that Bram Stoker would have written with the collaboration of Mel Brooks and the Marquis de Sade over drinks at Hooters. [16 Aug 1996, p.F10]

Steve Persall

America's foremost smart aleck Dennis Miller adds grand giggles to familiar gore in Bordello of Blood. [17 August 1996, p.2B]

Michael Saunders

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]

Richard Harrington

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. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

Vampires aren't the only things in Bordello of Blood that can't stand up to daylight. Neither can the plot. Read full review

Peter Stack

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This vulgar, supposedly comic horror tale about vampire hookers and religious morons is just plain gross. Read full review

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Rcavey92212

Apr 23, 2020

This was Tales from the Crypts 2nd attempt in hopes of making a successful franchise. Unfortunately audiences never bit and this goofier version of From Dusk til Dawn barely made a ripple financially. That being said it's a wonderfully funny, intentionally trashy and entertaining horrorThis was Tales from the Crypts 2nd attempt in hopes of making a successful franchise. Unfortunately audiences never bit and this goofier version of From Dusk til Dawn barely made a ripple financially. That being said it's a wonderfully funny, intentionally trashy and entertaining horror flick along the lines of it's criminally underseen predecessor. Although not as good it's one hell of a fun time. The film centers around funnyman Dennis Miller (Net) as a cheap dick in search of a young woman trashy younger brother played by a douchey Corey Feldman (Lost Boys). It just so happens he went to a brothel that doubles as a funeral home run by a wonderfully campy Angie Everhart a.k.a Lillith the first vampire. Chris Sarandon (Fright Night), Erika Eleniak (Under Siege) and Phil Fonducaro (Ghoulies 2) also star in this ultra campy hidden guilty pleasure gem.

Budget: $2.5m
Box Office: $5.8m

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FilipeNeto

Jan 16, 2022

Released shortly after "Demon Knight", the film follows on from a series of material that includes two older films, comic books and a television series. Therefore, it is material that people from the 80's already knew reasonably well, but which for us, after more than thirty years, isReleased shortly after "Demon Knight", the film follows on from a series of material that includes two older films, comic books and a television series. Therefore, it is material that people from the 80's already knew reasonably well, but which for us, after more than thirty years, is absolutely forgotten. It's understandable: black and horror comedies aren't for everyone.

In this film, everything takes place around a mortuary house that hides, inside, very discreetly, a large brothel that would delight the most perverted Roman emperor. One small drawback: the girls are all vampires and are eager to cut up customers and feast on their blood. It's a cliché movie, packed with all the vampire clichés we're used to seeing, and absolutely overloaded with female nudity scenes (never full nudity, but we've got a selection of perky butts and turgid breasts for no one to mess with) and, of course, lots of gore and fake blood and shredded flesh. Definitely a movie to avoid for an evening with her 84-year-old grandparents.

Is it surprising if I say that we don't have great actors here, risking their careers for such a piece of rubbish? In fact, and if we forget the inexplicable cameo by Whoopi Goldberg, which lasts no more than a few seconds, it is Corey Feldman who takes the lead and gives us a dramatic interpretation closer to the work of a professional. The film still has the interesting support of Chris Sarandon and Aubrey Morris, but that's it: to say that Angie Everhart, Dennis Miller or any of the other cast members did a poor and tolerable job is to be magnanimous.

The film bets all its chips on a huge selection of visual and special effects designed to turn the audience's guts upside down. It's something that, by the way, seems to permeate all the material coming from "Tales of the Crypt". The result is a relatively effective set of effects that make us think twice about popcorn. Comedy, however, doesn't always work, and the movie isn't scary enough to scare us.… Expand

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