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Innocent Blood (aka A French Vampire in America) is a 1992 film. The gangster and horror genres come together head-on in this typically stylish and tongue-in-cheek offering from John Landis. The film is unique in that it's set and was filmed in and around the Pittsburgh, PA area. The "Little Italy" of Pittsburgh, a portion of the Bloomfield (Pittsburgh) neighborhood, clustered around Liberty Avenue, is recognizable in many of the film's outdoor urban scenes. Actors Tony Sirico and David Proval have supporting parts as gangsters, foreshadowing their roles in The Sopranos.

Plot

Anne Parillaud plays Marie, a very appealing modern-day vampire in Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. However, when she feasts on vicious gang boss Sal 'The Shark' Macelli (Robert Loggia) and fails to complete the job properly (by not severing his spinal cord), he too becomes one of the undead and begins to pass his new-found powers on to his henchmen. With the help (and love interest) of undercover cop Joe Gennaro (Anthony LaPaglia), Marie sets out to put things right.
In typical Landis fashion, this movie balances plenty of slickly directed thrills and gore with some moments of humour. Loggia's bewilderment at waking in the morgue to find a thermometer protruding from his stomach and the reaction of the wife of crooked lawyer Manny Bergman (Don Rickles) to the bizarre mayhem that ensues are good examples.

Trivia

Director/Puppeteer Frank Oz appears as a pathologist that discovers Robert Loggia at the morgue. Even though his role only spans slightly over 4 minutes, he was credited at the end amongst the main cast. Oz also appears in the John Landis films The Blues Brothers, Spies Like Us, Trading Places and Blue Brothers 2000.
Dario Argento, director of many famous Italian horror films, has a cameo as a paramedic.
Even though the plot of this film is centered around vampires, the word "vampire" isn't spoken for the entire duration.
Director Sam Raimi has a small role as the Roma Meats Man that lets Robert Loggia into the butcher's walk-in to sleep, then exclaims into the phone: "He's usin' a rump roast as a pillow!"

Cast

Anne Parillaud - Marie, a lonely modern-day vampire who lives for food and sex, but her feeding is only limited to criminals, because she never, ever takes innocent blood. She hasn't had anything for six nights. She then decides to feed off the Italian mob syndicate, led by Sal "The Shark" Macelli.

Robert Loggia - Salvatore "Sal the Shark" Macelli, the head (or "boss") of his mafia crime syndicate and the Pittsburgh underworld, and pariah to the police and feds. Marie, at his place, feeds on him, but by Sal shooting her in the chest, fails to finish him off. Macelli becomes now a bloodsucker hell bent on turn his henchmen into one of his "new children".

Anthony LaPaglia - Detective Joseph Gennaro, an undercover cop who aides Marie into eliminating Macelli and his "goons" from potentially wiping out the city's population. Gennaro also has a love interest in Marie.

Don Rickles - Emmaunel 'Manny' Bergman, an crooked attorney who keeps Macelli out of danger and trouble by not blowing his hide. Bergman is the first victim Macelli feeds on.Further Information

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