Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.
Bordello of Blood is a campy Tales from the Crypt feature that leans hard into its comic book origins with a gleefully sleazy premise — a vampire brothel fronted by a televangelist is a fun high-concept setup. However, the execution is uneven throughout. The plot is thin and meandering, relying heavily on shock gags rather than coherent storytelling. Acting is broadly cartoonish, with Dennis Miller's wisecracks wearing thin and Angie Everhart delivering a serviceable but one-note villainess. Cinematography is serviceable direct-to-video horror fare with little visual distinction. The ending is abrupt and unsatisfying even by B-movie standards. Novelty gets a slight bump for its irreverent skewering of televangelism and its unapologetically trashy genre mashup, which gives it a modestly distinctive flavor within the mid-90s horror-comedy space.