History Film / BordelloOfBlood

''Bordello of Blood'' is the second film based on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''Film/DemonKnight''. Starring Creator/DennisMiller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon, and Creator/CoreyFeldman, the movie tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker very 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.

''Bordello of Blood'' is the second film based on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''Film/DemonKnight''. Starring Creator/DennisMiller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon, and Corey Feldman, the movie tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker very 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.

* OrificeInvasion: Lilith kills Caleb's friend at the start by sticking her OverlyLongTongue into his mouth while frenching him and extending it till it reaches his heart to which she forcefully pushes it out of his body.

* FaceRevealingTurn: Done by Calab when Rafe and Catherine go to meet him at a spot he calls them too. Though it's not much of a surprise considering this happens late in the film and the last time we saw him, [[spoiler: he was in the brothel with one vampire about feed on him and Lilith soon approaching him for a three way.]]

-->'''Caleb''': ''(In [[GameFace vamp face]]'') Sorry, no can do. I gotta play by the rules here. I know how you feel, I didn't want to be a vampire either...at first. But after you get used to it, '''it's pretty damn cool!''' ''(Laughs evilly and sticks out his tongue)''.

Rafe's investigation leads him to a whorehouse/mortuary run by [=McCutcheon=] (Aubrey Morris). Further investigation leads our wisecracking hero to discover that the brothel/mortuary is inhabited by vampires led by UsefulNotes/{{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 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.

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

* 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 ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''; what do ya expect?]]

%%* {{Gorn}}: Oh yeah.

* OrificeInvasion: Like you wouldn't believe.

** [[spoiler:Caleb, who is 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, but then again, he was shown at the beginning to be an asshole. Even telling Catherine 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."]]

%%* FauxAffablyEvil: Lilith

%%* OnlySaneMan: Rafe

%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath

%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Rafe

%%* TheDeterminator: Rafe

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Prather vanishes from the film. His fate is never revealed or even hinted at.

%%* GenreSavvy: Rafe

'''''Bordello of Blood''''' is the second film based on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''Film/DemonKnight''. Starring Creator/DennisMiller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon, and Corey Feldman, the movie tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker very 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/mortuary run by [=McCutcheon=] (Aubrey Morris). 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 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.

!!This film contains the following tropes:

Rafe's investigation leads him to a whorehouse-slash-mortuary run by [=McCutcheon=] (Aubrey Morris). 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 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.

* BuxomIsBetter / IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Subverted with Lilith.
-->'''Rafe:''' I'm not going to tell you those aren't the Breasts of the Century, but [[NotDistractedByTheSexy I'm just not digging the owner]], so why don't you put those away; you're just not my type.
* ContinuityCameo: In the scene where Rafe, after being trapped in a hospital, manages to kill the vampire Tammy disguised as 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 TV show's episodes.
* CarFu: [[spoiler:How Rafe gets into the mortuary in the final act and takes down [=McCutcheon=]]].
* CassandraTruth: Rafe manages to find proof that Lilith is evil, but the pictures he takes show nothing since vampires can't be photographed. Doesn't help that an idiot of a police captain has bad blood with him.

* CastingGag: Creator/WilliamSadler (Brayker from ''Film/DemonKnight'') has a cameo as a mummy in the FramingDevice.

* {{Crouching Moron Hidden Badass}}: Rafe.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: What [=McCutcheon=] suggests to Rafe, who is trying to get into the whorehouse while it's closed.

%%* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: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.

* HeadTiltinglyKinky: [=McCutcheon=] is one weird motherfucker. [[spoiler:He even plays with the nipples of fat female corpses]].

* ILoveTheDead: [=McCutcheon=], who plays with the nipples of female corpses.

%%* LesbianVampire
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the dark and edgy TV series and ''Film/DemonKnight'', ''Bordello of Blood'' is much campier and lighter.

* MurderByCremation: Subverted.

-->'''Lilith:''' I like a guy who gives you head--and lets you keep it.

* 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.

* 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 for Lilith's operations.

* VampiresAreSexGods: It's a literal example of the trope. Lilith 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]].

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

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vincent Prather (short actor Phil Fonducaro) vanishes halfway through the film.

'''''Bordello of Blood''''' is the second film based on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''Film/DemonKnight''. Starring Creator/DennisMiller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, [[Film/FrightNight Chris Sarandon]] and [[Film/TheLostBoys Corey Feldman]], the movie tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker very 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.

* CastingGag: William Sadler (Brayker from ''Film/DemonKnight'') has a cameo as a mummy in the FramingDevice.

Rafe's investigation leads him to a whorehouse-slash-mortuary run by [=McCutcheon=] (Aubrey Morris). 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.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Rafe is seen wearing a Star of David pendant (which a vampire, Tammy, mistakes for a crucifix) and wears a yarmulke at another point in the movie.
* 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--yes, she's ''that'' strong) before eating them.

* ADateWithRoseyPalms: What [=McCutcheon=] suggests to Rafe, who is trying to get into the whorehouse while it's closed.

* BuxomIsBetter: Subverted with Lilith.

'''''Bordello of Blood''''' is the second film based on ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', following ''Film/DemonKnight''. Starring Creator/DennisMiller, Angie Everhart, Erika Eleniak, Chris Sarandon and Corey Feldman, the movie tells the story of Rafe Guttman (Miller), a [[DeadpanSnarker very 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 run by [=McCutcheon=] (Aubrey Morris). 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.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: Rafe is seen wearing a Star of David pendant (which a vampire mistakes for a crucifix) and wears a yarmulke at another point in the movie.

* BackFromTheDead: Lilith at the start of the movie.

%%* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy
* BiTheWay: Strangest example ever: [[spoiler:Catherine's bite marks from Lilith are on the inside of her thigh]].

-->'''Rafe:''' I'm not going to tell you those aren't the Breasts of the Century, but I'm just not digging the owner, so why don't you put those away; you're just not my type.
* ContinuityCameo: In the scene where Rafe, after being trapped in a hospital, manages to kill a vampire disguised as 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 is heard talking to Catherine]], making her and the cameraman realize Rafe wasn't lying.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Reverend Current's "Laserlight of the Lord."]]

* 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 ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', what do ya expect?]]

* EvilRedhead: Lilith has red hair.

* {{Gaslighting}}: Gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by Rafe in one scene.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of Lilith's minions 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.

* OffWithHisHead: Lilith kills one of her minions by literally ripping his head off his body.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Lilith]] at the end.
** Not so much one-winged as just devolving to her original form and, boy, is it not pretty.

-->'''Lilith:''' (''as a cheerleader'') 2, 4, 6, 8, you can watch me masturbate!

* SoundtrackDissonance: During the StormingTheCastle sequence.