Innocent Blood (also known in some regions as A French Vampire in America) is a 1992 American erotic comedy horror thriller film directed by John Landis and written by Michael Wolk. The film stars Anne Parillaud as Marie, a beautiful French vampire who finds herself pitted against a gang of mobsters led by Salvatore Macelli (Robert Loggia), who eventually becomes a vampire and schemes to build a criminal syndicate of vampires.
The film is set in and was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Actors Tony Sirico, Tony Lip and David Proval have supporting parts as gangsters, foreshadowing their roles in The Sopranos. It also features early appearances by Anthony LaPaglia, Angela Bassett and Chazz Palminteri. The film is notable for being a mixture of the vampire, gangster and buddy cop genres. The film was a box-office bomb, earning only $5 million against its $20 million budget.
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Marie is a vampire in contemporary Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. After feasting on mafioso Tony Silva, she shoots him in the head with a shotgun to cover up the bite marks on his neck and prevent his return as a vampire. Undercover cop Joseph Gennaro's visit to the crime scene appears in the media, and his assignment of infiltrating the crime family of Salvatore "Sal the Shark" Macelli ends when he's put into protective custody by District Attorney Barbara Sinclair.
