Blood and Chocolate 2007

Critics score:
11 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jan Stuart, Newsday: The preview audience watched most of this in stony silence, broken only by the contented sound of critics scratching bad dialogue in their notepads. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The elegant decay of Bucharest offers welcome visual relief from this otherwise tedious goth romance. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: If you have a decent laptop, a copy of the Final Cut Pro software, some gray spray paint and access to a German shepherd, then you can probably make a better-looking werewolf than the ones in Blood & Chocolate. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: A romantic triangle between werewolves and humans doesn't sound dull, but director Katja von Garnier seems to determined to drain the life out of it. Read more

Michael Hardy, Boston Globe: The city ends up being more interesting than the story or characters. Too bad we can barely see it. Read more

Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times: There isn't enough absinthe in all of Romania to obliterate the taste of this clunker. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliche. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: There's no official rule which says that werewolf movies have to be boring, but it doesn't seem like anyone has tried particularly hard in a long, long time. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There's no real meat here -- as the studio, which would not screen this in time for critics, certainly suspected. Read more

Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News: Somewhere, Lon Chaney Jr. must be howling mad. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: This is the kind of werewolf flick that seems to have used up its entire special-effects budget on canine contact lenses. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Blood & Chocolate does offer two tiny consolations. At least it's not a vampire movie. And at least this bad German horror director isn't Uwe Boll. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Blood and Chocolate has no audience. Horror fans will be disgusted by the lack of gore. Romance fans will be disgusted by the presence of gore. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: In seeking to make a chick flick with fangs, the producers of the vampire franchise Underworld are doing a grave disservice to the genre. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Time Out: Cheap special effects and banal dialogue rule. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Based on a popular teen novel by Annette Curtis Klause, Blood and Chocolate revises classic werewolf legend and effectively neuters it in the process. Read more