SummaryA darkly romantic thriller that explores the limbo between the human and inhuman worlds, as two young lovers (Bruckner, Dancy) risk everything to cross it. (MGM)
Directed By:Katja von Garnier
Written By:Ehren Kruger, Christopher Landon, Annette Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate
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Generally Unfavorable
33
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4.9
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
6% Positive
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44% Mixed
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Never having read the book, I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.
50
A far cry from such sneakily subversive werewolf-sex tales as "The Company of Wolves" (1984) or "Ginver Snaps" (2000), this pallid little picture is all "Lost Boys" (1987) posturing by way of the sublimely ridiculous "Covenant" (2006).
40
Uninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is "Romeo and Juliet" with fewer manners and more exotic dentition.
38
Though technically a werewolf movie, the silly Blood and Chocolate is really just a toothless love story about the bad stuff that can happen when two very different people fall in love.
30
Good movie roles have generally eluded her (Agnes Bruckner), and she labors in vain to keep this big-studio horror confection alive.
25
Not since "An American Werewolf in London" in 1981 reset the standard for man-to-wolf transformations has anyone tried to get away with special effects as pitiful as the ones in this movie.
12
As for the script, a wittier director would have spotted the absurd elements and delivered a horror-comedy instead of a straight-faced bore.
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30% Positive
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3 Ratings
Sep 25, 2011
7
I found myself in agreement with Stephanie Zacharek of ****. I quite liked this movie and thought most of it was visually very beautiful. It is a film I would quite happily watch again and was a different look at the world of lycanthropes. It was also nice to see Agnes Bruckner and I thought she carried the film fairly well. There were some weak parts but on the whole that I think was more the fault of casting than script or directing. If you like fantasy, werewolves, then this will give you something new to howl about :)!
Production Company:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Lakeshore Entertainment
- Daniel Bobker Productions
- Berrick Filmproduktion
- Blood & Chocolate Productions Ltd.
Release Date:Jan 26, 2007
Duration:1 h 38 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Temptation comes in many forms.
