Bordello of Blood (1996) on Netflix
R19961h 27mComedyFantasyHorror
Private investigator Rafe Guttman takes Katherine Verdoux's case: her brother Caleb vanished after a visit to a funeral home. The place hides a brothel run by Lilith, the mother of vampires.
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Plot summary
On Tierra del Fuego, Vincent Prather leads treasure hunters to a cave where a coffin holds Lilith, the mother of vampires. He revives her with four pieces of her heart and uses a blood key to control her. In the city, Caleb Verdoux argues with his sister Katherine and goes to a bar, where he hears of a brothel hidden inside a funeral home; visitors ask for the Cunningham Wake. The mortician McCutcheon sends Caleb and a friend through a furnace into the brothel, which Lilith runs with vampire women. Katherine reports her brother missing, and private investigator Rafe Guttman offers his help. He traces Caleb's trail to the funeral home, but Katherine, who works with Reverend Current, does not believe him. Rafe sets out to find proof.
Cast
- Kiara Hunteras Tamara (as Ciara Hunter)
- Juliet Reaghas Tallulah
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bordello of Blood (1996)
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- Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis wrote the first draft straight out of USC in 1973, hoping an exploitation picture about a brothel full of vampires would get them into the business. They pitched it to John Milius, who liked the script but made 1941 with them instead.
- The film exists because Robert Zemeckis was offered a DreamWorks contract and thought about leaving Universal; making his old vampire script as the second Tales from the Crypt picture was the studio's way of keeping him.
- Director Gilbert Adler and co-writer A.L. Katz wanted Daniel Baldwin as Rafe Guttman, Bridgette Wilson as Katherine and Robin Givens as Lilith. Executive producer Joel Silver overruled them, casting Dennis Miller and Angie Everhart.
- Angie Everhart got the part of the vampire queen Lilith because Sylvester Stallone introduced her to producer Joel Silver and suggested her for the role.
- Dennis Miller did not want to make the film and asked a million dollars to star. Universal refused to pay it, so Joel Silver took 750,000 dollars out of the special effects budget of this vampire picture to meet Miller's price.
- Miller hated his scripted lines and improvised nearly all of them, the shoot was rearranged around his television show Dennis Miller Live, and on some days his assistant said he was too tired to appear, so the script supervisor stood in for him.
- The production moved to Vancouver because of Joel Silver's earlier union disputes, and then met the catch: in July and August the city has so few hours of darkness that the night scenes of a vampire film were hard to shoot.
- Writer A.L. Katz said Erika Eleniak refused to travel to the set until the script was rewritten, and that he and Adler frantically rewrote Katherine, scripted as a stripper, to get her there. Eleniak disputes that, saying the row was over a sexy scene with Everhart that Joel Silver wanted added.
