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Stars:
Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman, and
John Kassir As The Voice Of “The Crypt Keeper”
Writer:
Gilbert Adler
Inspired
By The “E.C. Comics” Series
Director:
Gilbert Adler
Feature
length: 87 minutes
Extras:
Theatrical Trailer
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Subtitles:
English Captions and French and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 18
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 1996/DVD Release: 2003
Theatrical
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Home
Video Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video
MPAA
Rating: R
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
The
second film in the feature spin-off series based on the hit HBO TV series
“Tales From The Crypt” was pretty much a bust for a number of reasons that
include the premise, which has a bordello run by vampires that had already been
done quite well by the original “From Dusk Till Dawn,” which opened
theatrically several months before “Tales From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of
Blood” and by the fact that the script falls apart within minutes of the
film’s opening. After her younger brother (Corey Feldman) disappears, a woman
(Erika Eleniak) hires a private eye (Dennis Miller) to find him. In the process
the detective uncovers a coven of vampires running a whorehouse out of a funeral
home led by the Madam Lilith (Angie Everhart), a powerful vampire of legend. He
also discovers a connection between the house of evil repute and a corrupt
television evangelist (Chris Sarandon), who his client works for.
“Tales
From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood” actually plays a bit better now on
DVD than it did several years ago, but it is still a rather lackluster entry in
the overall television and feature film series, which has now in syndicated
reruns. There have been occasional rumors of a third feature film installment
being produced, but none of them are confirmed. William Sadler and Whoopi
Goldberg have cameos in the film and the “Key” that was so important in
“Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight” shows up in the hands of some
evil dwarf who resurrects Lilith and then uses it to control her. It would have
been nice if the key has a greater role of importance in the story that could
have perhaps found its way into a third story. I mean the films do not have to
be sequels or even a trilogy in the classic sense, but after making a film where
the importance of the key holds the very survival of all that is good in the
universe in balance and then to follow that up with a film where e it is just
chucked in some alleyway and destroyed cheapens the whole premise of the first
film completely. Dennis Miller is a little too smug for his own good in the
movie to a point where one starts hoping the vampires would just bite him
already.
The
(1.85:1) anamorphic widescreen transfer presentation is very good with no
anomalies or compression grain in sight. The English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Soundtrack is aggressive and lively and English Captions for the hearing
impaired as well as French and Spanish Language Subtitles are encoded onto the
dual layered DVD too. The theatrical trailer (1:46) is provided and the menus
are standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate.
“Tales
From The Crypt Presents Bordello Of Blood” is available now on DVD-Video at
retailers on and offline from Universal Studios Home Video.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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