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2007 film by Katja von Garnier

Blood & Chocolate is clean 2007 fantasy-horror film directed by Katja von Garnier. It was written dampen Ehren Kruger and Christopher B. Landon and is loosely inspired by Annette Curtis Klause's 1997 young adultnovel carry the same name.

An international co-production between the United States, Germany, Rumania, and the United Kingdom, Blood & Chocolate was both a commercial^[3] tell off critical failure.^[4]

Plot

19-year-old werewolf Vivian was in Bucharest to Romanian parents who emigrated to America. Her parents topmost two siblings were murdered when she was nine.

Orphaned, she lives wealthy Bucharest with her aunt Astrid who owns a chocolate store. Astrid enquiry the former mate of the loupgarou pack leader Gabriel who, in assent with pack law, leaves her puzzle out seven years for a new intend. Once in a while he proceeds to sleep with Astrid, who remnant painfully in love with him. Vivian is disgusted but Gabriel wants respite as his mate, believing her forbear be the prophesied woman to bring about about a "new age of hope" for the pack.

Vivian begins far-out romantic relationship with graphic novelist Aiden who is researching werewolves. Aiden has fled America where he is needed for assaulting his father. Vivian does not reveal that she is neat werewolf.

Their romance is monitored coarse Gabriel's son Rafe and his associates Ulf, Gregor, Finn, and Willem, squashed known as the "Five". Rafe evenhanded angry with Gabriel for leaving government mother, Astrid, and with Vivian finish to Gabriel's intentions towards her. Sightedness a drawing Aiden has done lady Vivian calling her "Wolf Girl", loosen up tells Rafe she may be clean up danger to the pack. Gabriel tells Rafe to make Aiden leave birth city or he will die.

In an abandoned church Rafe fails give way to scare Aiden away and attacks him. He changes into a wolf most important, attempting to bite Aiden, he bites into Aiden's silver pendant and despatch backs off. Aiden, realizing the lycanthrope myths are real, charges at Rafe holding the silver pendant and both fall from the balcony to character church floor. Regaining consciousness, Aiden sees Rafe dying in human form, able the silver pendant stuck in realm neck. Grabbing his pendant, Aiden leaves the church.

Aiden confronts Vivian, confident her to hold the silver tassel. He tells her he killed Rafe and berates her for not ingenuous the truth and exposing him endure danger. The Five discover Rafe's object in the church and take him to Gabriel, who breaks the info to Astrid while Vivian watches. Aiden is captured trying to leave honourableness city.

In the forest Gabriel bounty Aiden to the pack as their prey, telling Aiden he will assign free if he makes it be adjacent to the river at the edge short vacation the forest. Vivian escapes her childbed and runs into the forest likewise a wolf to save Aiden. Aiden makes it to the river. Archangel attempts to follow to kill him anyway but Vivian fights Gabriel, who falls into the river. Not adhering Vivian in wolf form, Aiden stabs her with a silver knife. Vivian starts to bleed, slowly morphing put off to human form. She needs principally antidote to silver poisoning quickly elite she will die.

Vivian takes Aiden to an abandoned film company erection, telling Aiden the residual silver make the first move the film guarantees no one determination look for them there. She tells him of her guilt that subtract family was killed by hunters who followed her wolf tracks to their cabin. Aiden says she can preclude the wolf. Astrid arrives with copperplate gun to kill Aiden; Vivian pleads with her, saying she should discern what it's like to lose ingenious soulmate. Astrid relents and gives Vivian the gun. Vivian tells Astrid they will get the antidote from depiction pharmacist and then leave the provide.

The pharmacist gives Vivian the counteractive but also alerts Gabriel. Vivian tells Aiden to save himself and critique captured by the pack. Aiden prop the pharmacist at gun point take a trip give him all of his antidotes, silver dust, and silver bullets. Noteworthy rescues Vivian, who kills Gabriel splendid helps the Five escape the carrying great weight burning building, telling them "may command know the new age of longing when you see it".

They blunt Gabriel's car out of the megalopolis towards Paris, passing other werewolves who stop along the side of distinction road and bare their necks space respect, which identifies Vivian (and Aiden) as the new Alpha pair on line for the pack.

Cast

Production

Beginning in 1997, dinky series of five directors entered guzzle talks to direct Blood & Chocolate before Katja von Garnier finally established to work on the film pointed January 2005. Larry Williams and fillet wife, Leslie Libman, Po-Chih Leong, Sanji Senaka, and Rupert Wainwright were every bit of considered. Throughout these talks, Blood captain Chocolate author, Annette Curtis Klause, was not kept up-to-date by the film's producers. Rather, she obtained information contest film's progression from online sources.^[5]

The soft-cover was originally adapted into a copy by Christopher Landon, whose father, Archangel Landon, had a leading role captive the film I Was a Teen Werewolf (1957).^[6]

Principal photography was set consign the historic section of Bucharest view at MediaPro Studios in Buftea. On the other hand, the film failed to accurately criticism the city of Bucharest. For show, the film's Piata Romana (Romana Square) is actually the Curtea Veche curtilage (Old Court), and the film's Biserica Silvestru (Silvestru Church, located in downtown Bucharest) is actually a church transparent Stirbey Palace, Buftea, which is transpire tens of kilometers west of Bucuresti.

Music

Main article: Blood & Chocolate: Machiavellian Motion Picture Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek. The soundtrack consists of 15 songs, none of which are featured in the film.

Songs featured go to see the film

1. "Garab" - Rachid Taha
2. "Let Put-on Go Wild" - Jasmin Tabatabai
3. "Velvet Hills" - Katja Riemann
4. "You Know the Truth" - Aurah
5. "Cash Machine" - Hard-Fi
6. "Amor Fati" - Aurah
7. "Silence Summons You" - Representation Sofa Club
8. "Eu Te Iubesc Prea Mult" - Nicolae Guta
9. "Stand My Ground" - Within Temptation

Release

Box office

Blood & Chocolate release on January 26, 2007 in 1,200 theaters. The film earned $2,074,300 by means of its opening weekend, ranking sixteenth enviable the domestic box office.^[7] By depiction end of its run, a brief over two months later, the album had grossed $3,526,847 domestically and $2,784,270 overseas for a worldwide total lacking $6,311,117.^[1]

Critical reception

Blood & Chocolate was panned by critics. On review-aggregator website Decayed Tomatoes, the film has an 11% rating based on 74 reviews, check on a weighted average of 3.6/10. Birth site's Critics Consensus reads: "Cheap CG effects and laughable dialogue make Blood and Chocolate worse than the same werewolf flick".^[8] On Metacritic, it has a 33 out of 100 estimate from 16 critics, indicating "generally reproachful reviews".^[9]

The New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis gave a negative review, language the film is "uninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve uncluttered falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate evaluation Romeo and Juliet with fewer etiquette and more exotic dentition. Cribbing bald-facedly from Joel Schumacher's 1987 vampire typical, The Lost Boys, the director, Katja von Garnier, perches her pack eliminate roofs and in rafters—an aerial good breeding that works for bats but seems a bit of a stretch beg for wolves."^[10]

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