Rish Outfield's reviews
The Horror-Comedy worked wonders in John Landis' American Werewolf in London. The Comedy-Horror of John Landis' Innocent Blood doesn't work nearly as well. There was some nudity, but that didn't redeem it. I think this one didn't know if it wanted to be a straight Horror film or a straight Comedy, and it ended up somewhere in between. That's never worked, you have to pick one or the other. And I don't know if Robert Loggia has ever been scary . . . or funny. Sorry, that's just the truth.
Best Scare: Vampires have a tendency to jump up, their eyes glowing bright red.
I'd Recommend It To: I suppose it's worth a rent, on two-for-one day.

The tyranist's thoughts
A nice vampire movie that was billed as a comedy but really leans much more heavily toward horror. I loved the cameos and all of the different horror films that were shown in the movie. It certainly isn't one of the defining vampire movies, but it is definitely a fun diversion.
It is really hard to imagine Anthony Lapaglia as any kind of hero in a movie, but he does a fine job in this one. What really draws me to this one, however, are the wacked out vampir mobsters. The main vampire (you know, the one that bites them and sets everything off), bites the head of the local family and then doesn't kill him. This sets off a really interesting bit where he is going around "reorganizing" by converting his men to vampires. I think that the movie would have been much better if the whole thing were about a mob family that happened to be vampiric from the start. Instead, Landis did the usual thing and positioned it as a comedy piece that was important, but still somewhat tangential to the central characters. Landis really has a knack for creating little sidelights that are terrifically memorable without actually impacting the story much.