Oh, yes, my friends. This is a vampire mob movie. It's like Goodfellas got bitten by Dracula and this was the misshapen Renfield-esque result.
Anne Parillaud (the original La Femme Nikita) plays the vampire, Marie, who decides to target the Mob after her lover leaves her. Not really specified why her relationship ended but since she has a sexy accent, seems to be allergic to clothing, and likes bondage, I'm going to guess that the problem was on his end. Anthony LaPaglia plays the eponymous character, an undercover cop who is basically good.
Yeah, I had trouble suspending disbelief on that one, too.
Robert Loggia is the mob boss that Vampire Marie tries to take out for dinner. She gets interrupted before she can sever the spinal cord and (in accordance with established vampire canon) Loggia becomes a creature of the night. So does Don Rickles, but he was a lawyer so that's more of a lateral move.
I would definitely recommend this to fans of traditional vampire movies. It's a low-budget film that John Landis made, probably on a weekend in between directing Michael Jackson music videos.
Now that I think about it, it does remind me a lot of Thriller.
Anyway, it's fairly craptacular but entertaining in a WTF kind of way.
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