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‘Innocent Blood’

Marie (played by “La Femme Nikita’s” Anne Parillaud, pictured) is the ravenously hungry heroine of John Landis’ outrageous 1992 vampire comedy. She is as moral as she is beautiful: If she’s got to suck somebody’s blood, it might as well be a bad guy’s. But having put the bite on Pittsburgh Mafia kingpin Robert Loggia allows him to realize there could be a whole new meaning to the term, “made man.” Just think how invincible his gang would be if he were to turn his henchmen into vampires. Landis and writer Michael Wolk take real risks in that the film must always be as funny as it is grisly. They and special-effects maestro Steve Johnson pull it off, but you wouldn’t want pre-teens exposed to “Innocent Blood.” (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.)

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