Innocent Blood (also known in some regions as A French Vampire in America) is a 1992 American black comedy horror film directed by John Landis and written by Michael Wolk.

After feasting on mafioso Tony Silva, she shoots him in the head with a shotgun to cover up the bite marks on his neck and to prevent him from coming back as a vampire.

Sal, now a vampire, awakens in the morgue and steals a car to drive to the home of his attorney, Manny Bergman, being seen by police and reporters in his escape.

Outside the morgue, Gennaro leaves Marie with his colleagues Detectives Dave Finton and Steve Morales and goes to Bergman's house to pursue Sal.

Gennaro books her into a nearby hotel and Marie states in a voiceover that he "made [her] feel alive" and decides to make him a vampire.

John Landis had a deal with Warner Bros. to direct a film based on a script by Mick and Richard Christian Matheson called Red Sleep.

The most complete DVD version is the German release, entitled Bloody Marie: Eine Frau Mit Biss which is 28 seconds longer and in widescreen format.

The site's consensus reads, "Awkward tonal shifts and a sluggish pace plague Innocent Blood -- a horror comedy with anemic scares and laughs".

Ebert said "It looks great, with its film noir streets and its vampires who steam and disintegrate at the touch of sunlight (Don Rickles, as Loggia's lawyer, meets a particularly gruesome end)…But such cuteness doesn't make up for the lack of a clear idea of what the movie is about", and "it's all effect and no emotion.

"[11] In a positive review for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas wrote Landis and Wolk "take real risks in that 'Innocent Blood' must always be as funny as they are grisly or they quickly become a turnoff.

Fortunately, they’re able to turn the lavish display of blood and guts, devilishly concocted by special makeup effects maestro Steve Johnson, into cathartic laughter".

[12] He also said Loggia is given "a legitimate opportunity to tear loose and grandstand gloriously, infusing the entire film with an exhilarating comic energy.

"[12] Kathleen Maher of The Austin Chronicle criticized the film’s length and said, "It loses steam and coherence about midway through, leaving us rooting for it but doomed to disappointment.

Combining comedy, horror, romance and chase scenes, Innocent Blood finally begins to collapse in on itself but not before we've had more than a few good laughs and a frightened yelp or two.