Bloody Mallory

If you like over-the-top horror farces, this may be your movie! The acting and direction are surprisingly good. If you take your Buffy genre too seriously, you'll hate it.

A female agent (Bloody Mallory), from a secret French ministry charged with monitoring evil supernatural beings (mais bien sûr) heads off in her accessorized pink Hearse to rescue the Pope from flesh-eating ghoul kidnappers. She is joined by her sidekicks, a "flawless" foul-mouthed American transvestite (Vena Cava) and a telepathic mute girl (Talking Tina) in an action-packed romp in the underworld.

If you follow French comedy farces, like the Eric and Ramzy films, you know that the best part is finding all of the "homages" to other movies and popular culture. These include the Exorcist, Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Indiana Jones, Duran Duran, The Three Stooges and many more (in both French and English).

A really strange fantasy/adventure movie, a mix of horror, Cyberpunk and other kitsch inserts. Buffy is probably the model, but the story (a plot for world domination regarding the Pope) and the characters are very different from the Buffy ones, more Europeans, more fun in a strange sort of way. A better movie than you may think, but not really great for it is in a midlle of the road between delirious fun and bloody serious. Not for all tastes, but worth seeing

In BLOODY MALLORY, those pesky demons are once again out to destroy mankind. Now, it's up to Mallory (Olivia Bonamy) and her team of demon hunters to stop them.

This movie is just plain entertaining. Is it dumb? Of course, but it's also loads of fun!

THIS MOVIE CONTAINS: Demons, ghouls, vampires, telepaths, a lovely transvestite with machine gun shoes, the pope, and a pink hearse!

A farcical fantasy adventure for those with a functioning sense of humor...

This French all-action comic-book-style adventure pits the lovely Mallory and her team of Anti-Paranormal Commandos against the forces of darkness led by Abaddon, as he seeks to bring an end to the human race's time on Earth.

Mallory is joined by Hot Transvestite Vena Cava, a blue-wigged be-platformed explosives expert in platform shoes (comics fans should think of Lord Fanny crossed with that one out of Codename: Knockout); Talking Tina (une petite fille extralucide) and Inspector Durand.

It's The Invisibles meets "The Pope Must Die".

It's 50% Buffy, 50% Xena and 50% totally over the top French superhero fun. Before the screening, director Julien Magnat told us that he was a big fan of superheroines "Wonder Woman, Buffy and Xena - especially Xena" and this could be a fine potential TV series in that vein. Larger than life and rather nicely satirical, there is, as you'd expect with a film about religious paranormal business, a fair bit of scathing commentary. Vena Cava, when rescuing the Pope, berates him about banning condoms.

This film has exploding heads, exploding nuns, a faceless succubus and a sexy vampire. It is not for the religiously devout or the humourless type who thinks Sam Raimi TV series are nothing more than rubbish. It's got human-demon romance. And it's got a pink hearse !

I just recently viewed Bloody Mallory on DVD and really enjoyed it! I wasn't expecting any Oscar-winning performances from the actors, and I already had an idea that the plot might be a little hokey, so I wasn't expecting too much. But I was pleasantly surprised - for a B-movie, it really wasn't too bad! It's fun, fast-paced, and funny (Vena Cava was a trip), although it still wasn't quite up to the caliber of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie or TV show).

I expected a lot more gore in the movie than there actually was, but there were still a few nasty spots in it. The visual effects were a little cheesy, but the make-up (demons, vampires, etc) was pretty good. Surprisingly, there was no nudity in it at all (d*mmit)! However, I have to take my hat off to them for taking that route - a lot of B-movie producers would do it in a heartbeat. Olivia Bonamy was lookin' pretty hot too - she could give Sarah Michelle Gellar a run for her money!

I wouldn't recommend viewing this movie with small children (there are some rough spots and language in it to make up for the nudity), or anyone who is spiritually sensitive because of the story line involving the pope, and other points of the story I won't go into. The actors seemed like they were there to have fun, and didn't try to make the movie into more than it was. I think that also helped make the movie a success with me.

If you can find a copy of it, I would recommend this movie to any horror/action film buff - especially Buffy fans. I know, it's not Buffy, but it's fun to make comparisons anyway. You'd have to watch it in subtitles, but it's well worth it!