History Film / BordelloOfBlood

Rafe's investigation leads him to a whorehouse-slash-mortuary run by McCutcheon. Further investigation leads our wisecracking hero to discover that the brothel/mortuary is inhabited by vampires led by Lilith (Everhart). Turns out Lilith was resurrected by Catherine's boss, televangelist Reverend Jimmy 'J.C.' Current (Sarandon), so he [[WellIntentionedExtremist could rid the world of sin]], but Lilith's got her own agenda...and [[spoiler:has turned Caleb into one of her own]]. Now it falls to Rafe and Catherine to save the world before Lilith and her sexy vamps overrun it.

The second film based on ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''DemonKnight''. Starring Dennis Miller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon and Corey Feldman, ''Bordello of Blood'' tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] private eye who's called in by Catherine Verdoux (Eleniak) to find her rebellious brother Caleb (Feldman), who went missing after storming out of their house following an argument.

Rafe's investigation leads him to a whorehouse-slash-mortuary. Further investigation leads our wisecracking hero to discover that the brothel/mortuary is inhabited by vampires led by Lilith (Everhart). Turns out Lilith was resurrected by Catherine's boss, televangelist Reverend Jimmy 'J.C.' Current (Sarandon), so he [[WellIntentionedExtremist could rid the world of sin]], but Lilith's got her own agenda...and [[spoiler:has turned Caleb into one of her own]]. Now it falls to Rafe and Catherine to save the world before Lilith and her sexy vamps overrun it.

* ActorAllusion: [[TheLostBoys Corey Feldman]]. Full stop.
** And [[FrightNight Chris Sarandon]].
** Dennis Miller plays Dennis Miller as a PI.

* ContinuityCameo: In the scene where Rafe, after being trapped in an asylum, manages to kill a vampire in disguise of being a nurse thanks to exposing her to sunlight, his female roommate wakes up and tells him to keep it down as she's trying to sleep. That roommate is played by [[spoiler:Creator/WhoopiGoldberg]], who appeared in both the wraparound and main segment of one of the show's episodes.

** Though it becomes somewhat of a SomedayThisWillComeInHandy as when Catherine and her cameraman look over the tapes of an interview she had with Lilith, [[spoiler:Lilith isn't seen on tape being interview, but her voice heard talking to Catherine]], making her and the cameraman realize Rafe wasn't lying.
* CastingGag: William Sadler (Brayker from ''DemonKnight'') has a cameo as a mummy in the FramingDevice.

* DeadpanSnarker: Rafe, full stop. Dennis Miller snarks like no other.

%%* {{Determinator}}: Rafe
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Catherine is revealed to have been bitten and turned into a vampire. Though she doesn't reveal this fact till Lilith is destroyed and she and Rafe are alone before snacking on him. Still, the moment comes off as more comedic than depressing. 'Side, it's ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', what do ya expect?]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of Lilith's minion is hit with holy water in the torso. Both parts survive for a bit (the legs can be seen stumbling off while the upper body of the woman manages to drag herself to Current before dying). Lilith also gets this via an ax, but Rafe doesn't cut deep enough and she simply attaches the cut part back to her body like putty.

-->'''Caleb''': ''(on a vampire with three pierced nipples)'' I finally found a girl with a little something extra.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Somewhat. The regular vampires have the usual weaknesses, but they can get by in the daytime thanks to sunblock. Though they're surprisingly weak (little holy water or sunlight and they explode like confetti). Only Lilith is strong enough to mostly withstand these since she's the head vampire and only splitting her heart can fully kill her.

-->'''Lilith''': (after ripping out the heart of a patron and biting into it) Vegetarian? Ugh! Another vegetarian! I ''hate'' vegetarians. (''hands the heart over to a vampire minion'')

-->'''Lilith:''' 2, 4, 6, 8, you can watch me masturbate!
%%* SealedEvilInACan: Lilith.

-->'''Rafe''': I feel like I'm in a bad episode of ''TalesFromTheCrypt''.
%%* SoundtrackDissonance
* StormingTheCastle: Rafe and Current going to town on the female vampires of the bordello.
* ThematicSeries: Along with ''Demon Knight'', making up the ''Tales From The Crypt'' film series which aren't connected in a narrative fashion.

** Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work, has the unfortunate luck of being referred to Lilith. After a interview, Lilith "hires" her (i.e., becomes a meal for Lilith. Rafe, while investigating the house and not moments before passed the room where she was speaking to Lilith, hears Tammy scream and her body hitting the floor. Lilith is seen later picking her fangs from the feeding and calling to [=McCutcheon=] to come move and prep Tammy's body before she resurrects) and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems genuinely afraid when she has to explain herself when Rafe escapes her).

-->'''Rafe:''' What is that perfume?
-->'''Catherine:''' It's not perfume... It's sunblock.

* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Catherine, after she's captured by Lilith]].

%%* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Lilith]]
%%* TheDeterminator: Rafe
* DistressedDamsel: Catherine, though she does manage to [[spoiler:kill Lilith at the end]].

* {{Gaslighting}}: Gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Rafe in one scene.

%%* SealedEvilInACan: Lilith

The second film based on ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''DemonKnight''.

Starring Dennis Miller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon and Corey Feldman, ''Bordello of Blood'' tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] private eye who's called in by Catherine Verdoux (Eleniak) to find her rebellious brother Caleb (Feldman), who went missing after storming out of their house following an argument.

** And don't forget [[FrightNight Chris Sarandon]].

* AndShowItToYou: One of Lilith's favorite ways to kill her male victims, by ripping out their hearts (or at one point in the beginning of the movie, by shoving her tongue down someone's throat and pushing it out from their body. She's ''that'' strong) before eating them.
* BackFromTheDead
* BadassPreacher: Reverend Current.
* BeatStillMyHeart
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy

* BuxomIsBetter: Subverted with Lilith

* ContinuityCameo: In the scene where Rafe, after being trapped in a asylum manages to kill a vampire in disguise of being a nurse thanks to exposing her to sunlight, his female roommate wakes up and tells him to keep it down as she's trying to sleep. That roommate is played by [[spoiler: Creator/WhoopiGoldberg]], who appeared in both the wraparound and main segment of one of the show's episodes.
* CarFu

** Though it becomes somewhat of an SomedayThisWillComeInHandy as when Catherine and her cameraman look over the tapes of an interview she had with Lilith, [[spoiler: Lilith isn't seen on tape being interview, but her voice heard talking to Catherine]], making her and the cameraman realize Rafe wasn't lying.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Rafe

* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Lilith]]
* TheDeterminator: Rafe.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Catherine is revealed to have been bitten and turned into a vampire. Though she doesn't reveal this fact till Lilith is destroyed and she and Rafe are alone before snacking on him. Still the moment comes off as more comedic then depressing. 'Side, it's ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', what do ya expect?]]

* TheDragon: Vincent
* EvilRedhead: Lilith
* FailedASpotCheck: Caleb and his friend at the start when the hookers they're given have very visible bite marks on their necks indicating they're making out with walking corpses. Caleb does start to notice with the girl he's with but Lilith comes along and distracts [[spoiler: and quickly turns]] him before he can question it further.
* {{Fanservice}}
* FauxAffablyEvil: Lilith again.

* GenreSavvy: Rafe.
* {{Gorn}}: Oh yeah
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of Lilith's minion is hit with holy water in the torso. Both parts survive for a bit (the legs can be seen stumbling off while the upper body of the woman manages to drag herself to Current before dying). Lilith also gets this via an axe. But Rafe doesn't cut deep enough and she simply attaches the cut part back to her body like putty.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: [=McCutcheon=] is one weird motherfucker, who even plays with the nipples of fat female corpses.
* HeelFaceTurn: Reverend Current.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty

* LesbianVampire
* LighterAndSofter: Compared the dark and edgy series and ''DemonKnight'', this is much campier and lighter.

-->'''Caleb''': ''(on a vampiress with three pierced nipples)'' I finally found a girl with a little something extra.
* MurderByCremation: Subverted

* NotQuiteSavedEnough

-->'''Lilith:''' I like a guy who gives you head -- and lets you keep it.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Lilith]]

* OnlySaneMan: Rafe

* PickyEater: Lilith who isn't fond of vegetarians.
-->'''Lilith''': (After ripping out the heart of a patron and biting into it) Vegetarian? Ugh Another vegetarian! I ''hate'' vegetarians. (Hand the heart over to a vampire minion)
* RedemptionEqualsDeath

* SealedEvilInACan: Lilith

* SoundtrackDissonance

* TranshumanTreachery Pretty much all the turned victims: Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work has the unfortunate luck of being refered to Lilith. After a interview Lilith "hires" her (i.e becomes a meal for Lilith. Rafe, while investigating the house and not moments before passed the room where she was speaking to Lilith, hears Tammy scream and her body hitting the floor. Lilith is seen later picking her fangs from the feeding and calling to [=McCutcheon=] to come move and prep Tammy's body before she resurrects) and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems genuinely afraid when she has to explain herself when Rafe escapes her). [[spoiler: Caleb, whose seen again late in the film, is spared from being outright killed as his buddy was and is turned into a vampire, happily helping Lilith and her henchmen kidnap his sister , then again he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole. Even telling Cathrine he wasn't keen at first on becoming an undead (probably referring to when he was still human before Lilith and the girl who picked him showcased their fangs) but now finds it "pretty damn cool". And of course Catherine herself at the end of the movie, though a clue to the audience is when she seem much more willing to Rafe's advances.]]

* TwistEnding: It turns out that the religious, celibate and heterosexual Catherine [[spoiler:was actually seduced and turned into one of the promiscuous, bisexual vampire prostitutes before she was ever "rescued", but played along so that Rafe would wipe out her competition and she could start a whole new evil vampire sex cult beginning with him]].
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Subverted; it's just a cover to Lilith's operations.
* VampireMonarch: Lilith obviously
* VampiresAreSexGods: It's a literal example of the trope. Lillith is the ''original'' vampire, and [[PhysicalGod she was an ancient goddess]] [[VampiresAreSexGods of blood and sex]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent making her turned victims actual demi-gods of sex and blood]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Reverend Current

-->'''Catherine:''' It’s not perfume... It’s sunblock.

* ContinuityCameo: In the scene where Rafe, after being trapped in a asylum manages to kill a vampire in disguise of being a nurse thanks to exposing her to sunlight, his female roommate wakes up and tells him to keep it down as she's trying to sleep. That roommate is played by [[spoiler: WhoopiGoldberg]], who appeared in both the wraparound and main segment of one of the show's episodes.

__>'''Lilith''': (After ripping out the heart of a patron and biting into it) Vegetarian? Ugh Another vegetarian! I ''hate'' vegetarians. (Hand the heart over to a vampire minion)
* PropRecycling: The Key from ''DemonKnight'' returns in this film. Oddly, they never say what exactly it is, but the effect it has on vampires [[spoiler:and the way it explodes in a red flash when destroyed]] suggests it might actually be the same item. Which has some [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disturbing implications...]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in both directions]].
** However, they do mention in ''Demon Knight'' that there was more then one key (in-fact SEVEN of them), and its possible all keys look like that.
*** Also the end of the world was only if the demons got all the keys. Maybe this means we're permanently saved!
**** It is meant to be one of the keys, one was supposed to appear in each Crypt movie, but it didn't appear in the third film. The destruction of this key would also explain the Cryptkeeper's assertion in Demon Knight that Jerilyn lives happily ever after.

* FailedASpotCheck: Caleb and his friend at the start when the hookers they're given have bite marks on their necks indicating they're making out with walking corpses. Caleb does start to notice with the girl he's with but Lilith comes along and distracts [[spoiler: and quickly turns]] him before he can question it further.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Lilith just loves doing these after she kills her victims.

** FridgeBrilliance: The largest femoral artery is located on that part of the leg. Besides, it's a good way to hide ''bite marks on your neck''.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of Lilith's minion is hit with holy water in the torso. Both part survive for a bit (the legs can be seen stumbling off while the upper body of the woman manages to drag herself to Current before dying). Lilith also gets this via an axe. But Rafe doesn't cut deep enough and she simply attaches the cut part back to her body like putty.

* PropRecycling: The Key from ''DemonKnight'' returns in this film. Oddly, they never say what exactly it is, but the effect it has on vampires [[spoiler:and the way it explodes in a red flash when destroyed]] suggests it might actually be the same item. [[FridgeHorror Which has some]] [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disturbing implications...]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in both directions]].

--->'''Rafe''': I feel like I'm in a bad episode of ''TalesFromTheCrypt''.

* TranshumanTreachery Pretty much all the turned victims: Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work has the unfortunate luck of being refered to Lilith. After a interview Lilith "hires" her (i.e becomes a meal for Lilith. Rafe, while investigating the house and not moments before passed the room where she was speaking to Lilith, hears Tammy scream and her body hitting the floor. Lilith is seen later picking her fangs from the feeding and calling to [=McCutcheon=] to come move and prep Tammy's body before she resurrects) and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems genuinely afraid she has to explain herself when Rafe escapes her). [[spoiler: Caleb, whose seen again late in the film, is spared from being outright killed as his buddy was and is turned into a vampire, happily helping Lilith and her henchmen kidnap his sister , then again he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole. Even telling Cathrine he wasn't keen at first on becoming an undead (probably referring to when he was still human before Lilith and the girl who picked him showcased their fangs) but now finds it "pretty damn cool". And of course Catherine herself at the end of the movie, though a clue to the audience is when she seem much more willing to Rafe's advances.]]

* TranshumanTreachery Pretty much all the turned victims: Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work has the unfortunate luck of being refered to Lilith. After a interview Lilith "hires" her (i.e becomes a meal for Lilith. Rafe, while investigating the house and not moments before passed the room where she was speaking to Lilith, hears Tammy scream and her body hitting the floor. Lilith is seen later picking her fangs from the feeding and calling to McCutcheon to come move and prep Tammy's body before she resurrects) and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems genuinely afraid she has to explain herself when Rafe escapes her). [[spoiler: Caleb, whose seen again late in the film, is spared from being outright killed as his buddy was and is turned into a vampire, happily helping Lilith and her henchmen kidnap his sister , then again he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole. Even telling Cathrine he wasn't keen at first on becoming an undead (probably referring to when he was still human before Lilith and the girl who picked him showcased their fangs) but now finds it "pretty damn cool". And of course Catherine herself at the end of the movie, though a clue to the audience is when she seem much more willing to Rafe's advances.]]

* AndShowItToYou: One of Lilith's favorite ways to kill her male victims, by ripping out their hearts (or at one point in the beginning of the movie, by shoving her tounge down someone's throat and pushing it out from their body. She's ''that'' strong) before eating them.

* TranshumanTreachery Pretty much all the turned victims: Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work becomes a meal for Lilith and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems geniuely afraid when Rafe escapes and she has to explain herself to Lilith). [[spoiler: Caleb, whose seen again late in the film, is spared from being outright killed as his buddy was and is turned into a vampire, happily helping Lilith and her henchmen kidnap his sister (then again he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole). Even telling Cathrine he wasn't keen at first on becoming an undead but now finds it "pretty damn cool". And of course Catherine herself at the end.]]

* {{Gorn}}

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Somewhat. The regular vampires have the usual weaknesses, but they can get by in the daytime thanks to sunblock. Though they're surprisingly weak (little holy water and they explode like Action Bombs). Only Lilith is strong enough to mostly withstand these since she's the head vampire and only splitting her heart can fully kill her.

* VampiresAreSexGods: It's a literal example of the trope. Lillith is the ''original'' vampire, and [[PhysicalGod she was an ancient goddess]] [[VampiresAreSexGods of blood and sex]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent making her blood-spawn actual demi-gods of sex and blood]].

* TranshumanTreachery Pretty much all the turned victims: Tammy, a (supposed) hooker looking for work becomes a meal for Lilith and is next seen much more lustful then her friendly self seen during her interview, completely subservient to Lilith (she seems geniuely afraid when Rafe escapes and she has to explain herself to Lilith). [[spoiler: Caleb, whose seen again late in the film, is spared from being outright killed as his buddy was and is turned vampire, happily helping Lilith and her henchmen kidnap his sister (then again he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole). Even telling Cathrine he wasn't keen at first at becoming an undead but now finds it "pretty damn cool". And of course Catherine herself at the end.]]