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More vampire-related comedy horror - and this time from John Landis, director of one of the finest blends of horror and humour ever put to film: An American Werewolf in London. Innocent Blood must be a slam-dunk then, right? Well...

Anne Parrillaud (of Luc Besson's Nikita) is Marie, a vampire with a code of honour who only feeds on criminals. However, things go wrong when she bites mob boss Robert Loggia but fails to finish him off, which leads to him returning as a vampire, and hatching a plan to dominate crime by turning all his men into the undead.

It's a fun concept, but once again there are two very significant hurdles: it isn't funny, and it isn't scary. It doesn't succeed in being particularly sexy either, although Parrilaud's casting (not to mention her abundant nudity) was obviously intended to achieve this. The French actress's clear difficulty speaking English doesn't help matters, but the script wasn't exactly stellar to begin with. Despite a few memorable flourishes - notably the strikingly colourful vampire contact lenses - Innocent Blood just doesn't have enough wit to save itself, winding up a half-baked mess of vampire and mobster cliches. That said, some vampire purists might be a little dismayed at how fast-and-loose it plays with the usual undead rules.