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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396189560
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 3465
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
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As a young girl living in the remote mountains of Colorado Vivian (Bruckner) watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. Vivian survived the attack by running into the woods and changing into a wolf. Ten years later Vivian is living a relatively safe and normal life in Bucharest Romania. Vivian spends her days working in a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city s underground clubs fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe and his gang of delinquents he refers to as 'The Five.'Vivian s life begins to unravel when she has a chance encounter with Aiden (Dancy) an artist researching Bucharest ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel. Aiden pursues Vivian until she relents and begins to see him but she can t bring herself to tell him the truth - and lives in fear of showing him who she really is. Even though Vivian has sworn never to kill she is as much an animal as she is human and her love for Aiden threatens to cast him to the very wolves who saved her life and who are waiting for their chance to hunt him as prey.Run Time: 98 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 043396189560 Manufacturer No: 18956
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When graphic novelist Aiden (Hugh Dancy) travels to Bucharest to research the loup garou legend, he nearly gets devoured in the latest female werewolf film, Blood and Chocolate. In the tradition of Werewolf Woman and Ginger Snaps, Blood and Chocolate stars Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner), a girl who's forced to face her lupine tendencies in order to discover how capable of loving Aiden she really is. Based on a book by Annette Curtis Clause, the film chronicles the lives of the remaining loup garou who are an extended Romanian family waiting for their pack leader, Gabriel, to select his new mate. His desire for Vivian means trouble when her wish to be with Aiden results in her revealing too much about the clan's secretive lifestyle. In this film, werewolves look fully human until their eyes glow with colored contact lenses while they fly through the air to then land as full-fledged wolves. Gone are the days, apparently, of films showing the transformation in all its hairy, explosive detail. A lack of scenes describing the werewolf metamorphosis make this film more a love story than a monster tale, though two forest gatherings in which the loup garou hunt human sacrifices offer some grizzly satisfaction. Unlike the aforementioned femme werewolf films, Blood and Chocolate features a girl fighting her urge to kill in a bid to unite humans with her brethren, making this movie the most peaceful in its genre. With a tame wolf as protagonist, the potential nightmare is really just a pleasant dream to unite the two disparate worlds. The question is: Do we want that to happen? --Trinie Dalton
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Rating:  - Doesn't compare
Some people say that you shouldn't compare books to movies, generally the people who haven't read the books, but when a movie is based off of a book of course you should compare it and judge it on whether it kept the integrity of the author's story, and this movie did not. The book was all about growing up as an american teenage girl and having this whole secret life of being a werewolf, of wanting to fit in, and be understood, but always being set apart. When making the movie they increased her age moved the movie across to a whole different continent, and basically turneed it upside down. All they really kept the same from the book to the movie was the names. Our main character doesn't even end up with the man she's supposed to. Not to mention they turned the good guys into bad guys and the villains into good guys. Even when not compared to the books, the effects were awful and the plot or point of the story was almost non-existent. This movie was awful and was not worth the money I spent to buy my ticket.
Rating:  - I like a little Blood with my Chocolate
I've never read the book, and honestly thought this would be one of the regular hokey horror flicks... you know where the werewolves look more like big growly people in ape costumes?
This film was a breath of fresh air, though if you are after the usual slasher horror flick skip it, but if like me, you appreciate the romantic old-world side of the supernatural that is often only found in really dated literature, this movie is well worth your time. I've added the book the movie is based on to my reading list.
The special effects though few and far in-between, were beautifully done. Also a plus to the crew for using real wolves.
Rating: - Needs to Be Observed while Imbibing Godiva Chocolate Liquer into Your Bloodstream.
I loved Annette Curtis Klaus's novel. It did for werewolves in a smaller amount of time what Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles series did for vampires: Made them human and empathetic.
Klaus's story wasn't just one of people who became wolves at night and preyed on humans, but of the inner struggle their human part has with their animal part. Vivian learns eventually that she cannot help being what she is and that it's not so bad with a good, strong leader like her father once was.
Here is a disgusting story about nothing but senseless bloodshed, bad special effects, and it leaves you cold once the end credits begin to roll. There is no moral to the story about being true to yourself--just one long, cheap bloodbath that couldn't even begin to satisfy the most hardcore horror fans. Klause's book had some charm, humor, and heart in it among the truly eery moments. This so-called film adaptation offers nothing but cheap thrills and a meaningless waste of 100 minutes of your time you will never get back. Read the book, please!
Rating:  - Way, Way Off
I usually try to appreciate films based on books for their own merits. This film is visually appealing, but as I absolutely love the original story, I truly cannot overcome my horror at how badly the story was butchered to make this into a film. I don't even know WHY it was butchered so badly, as it certainly doesn't improve the story, which was fine as it was. Agnes Bruckner is good in the role of Vivian, as are the actors who portray the Five; aside from Rafe's penchant for the occasional murder in the film, these six characters maintain their essence in the adaptation, though no other character does. In the novel Gabriel is sexy, strong, and cool, not hateful and perverted. He is not Rafe's father, and he does not switch mates every seven years.
Anyway, I was terribly disappointed with this film because I believe a film based more on the original novel would have been MUCH, MUCH better.
Rating:  - Fluffy Werewolves and Biting Humans
First I'll say I haven't read the novel so I wasn't let down by it because it differed from the original story. I've seen nearly every werewolf movie ever made from old black and white classics like the Wolfman or Henry Hull's Werewolf of London to the first 7 of the Howling movies (some of which I couldn't believe I actually wasted the calories watching the thing), Dog Soldiers, Wolf, Beast of Bray Road, American Werewolf in London/Paris, and even Cursed and Gingersnaps along with countless others.
These werewolves were certainly a bit more fluffy on average than the lurking monsters in some of the other films, towering on two legs with dribbling saliva, wild eyes and 3 inch claws. Like the original Howling, they didn't change by the moon. While some argue this takes away from the mythos, it also has the potential to put an edge on a movie. At least if they only change under the full moon you don't have to worry about being ripped to shreds during the daylight. And how many movies have been made where it's glaringly obvious something is going to happen because people are taking a stroll (or making out... monsters hate people making out in their woods) under the full moon? With a free transforming werewolf the danger is real and present at any time, any place, and you're never safe.
The second thing I applauded the movie for was the human being actually having a brain and a spine. Particularly in recent vampire/werewolf genera it's too often reduced to Lois Lane ... Read More
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