Blood & Chocolate |  | Director: Katja von Garnier
Actors: Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez, Katja Riemann, Bryan Dick
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D18956D
UPC: 043396189560
EAN: 0043396189560
ASIN: B000OCY7TY
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
Release Date: June 12, 2007
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Product Description
An orphaned teenage werewolf is torn between loyalty to her pack and love for a human.
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-OCT-2007
Media Type: DVD
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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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 So off the mark January 24, 2010
Ckayt (Dublin, Ireland)
Okay so I might be a little bias having read the book before seeing this movie but I just thought it was awful! So much of want made the book amazing was changed. It just didn't have the same feel to it. I didn't like the plot or how the characters were changed and although it had some great cinematography I just found it dull.
Save your self the hassle and get the book instead.
disappointed January 6, 2010
Maria Wike (Rock Hill, SC USA)
the book is soooooo much better the only thing the book and the movie have in common is that they both have werewolves that's it the movie was hollywood lame bull.
This movie makes me want to puke on your shoes November 29, 2009
Bad Movie Buff
Another one of the worst 5 movies of all time in any genre. I haven't read the book, so I'm reviewing the movie on it's own merit, and all I can say, it, it doesn't have any. Have you read the 5-star reviews? They're obviously written by 13 year old girls who had to hug their Strawberry Shortcake dolls during the movie so they wouldn't be scared of the big hairy woman-eating sexy college boys. I would rather drive rusty nails into my left foot while being beaten with a two-by-four against my barbed-wire wrapped head than watch this "film" again.
Murder! November 27, 2009
StarReviewer
If you loved the book, or even had respect for it, don't watch this movie. It brings twisting books to a whole new level of perversity and `why did they even buy the copyrights'- ness.
I will say why I despise this movie very plainly, so even if you haven't read the book, you'll know what I mean. "SPOILER WARNING!"
In the book, our heroine, Vivian, loves being a werewolf and gets along with most of the other werewolves. The wolves only want to be left in peace, and are extremely careful not to hunt humans, while in the movie they're a sadistic lot who likes terrorizing and killing humans in a sick game where the whole pack hunts one person.
In the book, Vivian's werewolf love interest, Gabriel, is a firm but very fair pack leader who wants a mate (and wife) for life. Gabriel does not force attention on Vivian, he very patiently waits to see if she'll become interested. He is in his early twenties, she in her late teens. In the movie, the pack leader picks a new mate every seven years (??) Gabriel is supposed to be forty-ish (to Vivian`s late teens/early twenties) , and is the father of Vivian's cousin. Her aunt is still in love with him. And he stalks Vivian and insists she can't do anything about her `destiny'. Uh, gross!!! Oh, and in the movie she SHOOTS and kills him - that DOESN'T happen in the book!!
In the book, Vivian's human love interest doesn't except her for what she is - in the movie, he's totally cool about it.
And...in the book, a certain character tries to murder Vivian - in the movie that persons her aunt, whom she lives with!!
The movie is actually less scary than the book - I know, all those plot changes, and not more of a thriller? The movie is just occasional gore and violence - the book is really creepy and well-written.
I think the worst thing about this movie was it's total lack of respect for the author's work, and the total inability of the movie-makers to realize that an original plot about being a teenager - longing for acceptance and true love, and being unsure - with an awesome supernatural plot that is just as strong as the characters, would be a way better, more popular movie than a not-so-thriller with cliché after cliché. That is book murder!
 Great quality October 20, 2009
Teresa L. Roberts
Sent as a gift, i have heard nothing negative about the quality, so i am assuming it is wonderful!
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