Bloody Mallory

Plot synopsis:
Mallory is France's answer to Buffy...sort of. Buffy was blonde;
Mallory has flaming orange-red streaked hair. Buffy dressed in pastel
skirts and flowery halter tops; Mallory wears red and black vinyl with
combat boots. Buffy hung around with two other high school students--geek
Xander and witch Willow; Mallory hangs with a mute, telepathic juvenile
named Talking Tina, a blue-haired drag queen and explosives expert named
Vena Cava, and the head of Commando Operations, Inspector Durand. Buffy
took directions from her mentor Giles; Mallory consults the Necronomicon.
Buffy was single; Mallory killed her husband with an ax on their wedding
night when she found out he was a demon about to sacrifice her. What Buffy
and Mallory do have in common is that they fight vampires and other evil
creatures.While speaking to a crowd in Paris, Pope Hieronymous I has been
kidnapped. The Ministry of Secret Services has called Anti-Paranormal
Commando Operations leader Mallory [Olivia Bonamy] to find him, much to the dismay of
Carmina Belladone, the Vatican's press attache. After watching a videotape
of the actual kidnapping, Mallory believes the masked kidnappers to be the
living dead, but Belladone thinks they were just terrorists in bulletproof
vests. She's not about to buy rubbish about "living dead" nor does she
like Mallory and her band of superstitious mercenaries.It's not going to be an easy mission. On their last assignment
fighting ghouls, Vena Cava wound up in a neck splint, and Talking Tina was
bitten by baby ghouls and now lies in a coma that the doctors say could be
permanent. Worst of all, Inspector Durand was killed. Before embarking on
the search for the Pope, Mallory invokes the spirit of her dead husband [Julien Boisselier]
who is now a wandering demon in limbo. He is able to identify the
kidnappers as evil spirits who have vowed obedience to Abbadon the Dark,
the exterminating angel who fell from God's grace during the Original
Fall. Rumors are circulating about him in limbo, demon hubby says. They
say that he's preparing to free the fallen angels and destroy all of
creation.Mallory gets a list of all supernatural events occurring in France
over the past five years. Plotting them on a map of France, she notices
that they form a pentangle. Using that pentangle, she heads south from
Paris in her pink and black hearse to a spot where 5,000 inhabitants
disappeared some 15 years ago. Along the way, she is surprised when a bat
lands on her windshield and it turns out that Talking Tina has possessed
it. Using her negative energy detector, Mallory is led to a gate in the
middle of a forest. Passing through the gate, she finds herself in another
dimension, so she gets back in her car and drives through the gate. When
she comes to a crossroads and has the choice of going to the Crypte des
Vampires (Vampire's Crypt) or the Relais des Loups Garou (Werewolf Inn),
she heads towards the vampires.Mallory stops at a gas station that sells Fresh A+. Talking Tina
detects telepathic waves coming from behind the station. Mallory checks
it out and finds several humans being held in cages. After releasing them,
she discovers that one of them is Father Carras [Adrià Collado], one of the Pope's
bodyguards who also disappeared when the Pope was kidnapped. Carras
doesn't know where the Pope is, but he decides to teem up with Mallory.
Tina takes over the hulking body of the gas station attendant, and they're
on their way again.Meanwhile, Vena Cava [Jeffery Ribier], who was left behind in Paris, has been
searching for Mallory with her locator. She found the gate, went through
it, and meets up with Mallory just as Mallory, Tina, and Carras are
attacked by hordes of cloaked ghouls. Vena jumps on top of a cement post,
aims her thick-soled boots, and shoots silver bullets. Well, she thought
they were silver bullets. Guess that the salesman lied. In order to get
away from the ghouls, the four Commandos jump into a well where they find
a secret passage. Labyrinth though it is, they manage to find the Pope [Laurent Spielvogel]
when Tina leans on a wall and it breaks through. While the Pope complains,
Carras releases him. Mallory notices the lack of guards and becomes
concerned that releasing the Pope was a bit too easy.Unbeknown to the Commandos, they have been being watched by the
vampire Lady Valentine [Valentina Varagas] and the succubus Morphine [Sophie Tellier]. Cautiously, the
Commandos head back through the labyrinth, looking for the exit. Suddenly,
they come upon a green dragonlike monster that chases them until they
deadend in a small room and the door closes, shutting out the dragon. When
they spread out to look for an exit, a wall of spikes drops down in the
center of the room, trapping Vena, the Pope, and Tina on one side and
Mallory and Carras on the other. While the Pope continues to kvetch, Vena
finds a lever under a floorstone and turns it. The wall begins to move.
It's going to crush Mallory and Carras. Vena turns the lever the other
way, and the wall stops. Then it begins to move in the opposite direction.
If not stopped, it's now going to crush Vena, Tina, and the Pope.Vena grabs her tube of blue lipstick and aims it at one of the other
walls. The lipstick explodes, creating a hole. First she pushes the Pope
through the hole. Then Vena follows. Unfortunately, the hole isn't big
enough for the gas station attendant to fit through, so Tina transfers
herself into Vena's body. The gas station attendant is crushed. While Tina
looks for another body to possess (she can't get into the Pope for some
reason), Mallory and Carras come across some writing carved into the wall.
It's in Latin and Carras can read it after making a rubbing. It tells the
story of how God locked the fallen angels in an abyss but Abbadon escaped.
A prophecy says that he will reincarnate as a human every 100 years "until
he is the one God entrusts with the keys to His Kingdom." Mallory and
Carras put 2+2 together and realize that Abbadon is none other than the
Pope.Separated from Vena, Tina, and the Pope, Mallory and Carras search
for them. They come upon a young man in chains. Carras wants to release
him, but Mallory notices the bite marks on his neck. As they fight over
whether or not to destroy the man, Lady Valentine appears. In front of
Mallory and Carras, she sinks her fangs into the man's neck and drinks him
dry. Mallory recognizes her immediately as the Pope's press attache, Carmina Belladone
("always sucking up"). Lady V then turns on Mallory. Mallory puts up a
fight, but Lady Valentine is immortal. Not even a pole through her heart
can stop her. Lady V captures Mallory and Carras and takes them to her
castle in the sky, where Vena is already being held in chains.The Pope is there, too. He explains to them that his kidnapping was
actually an elaborate ruse to lure Mallory to him. Now that she's out of
the way, he plans to destroy the world of sinful humans to make room for
the fallen angels who were created by God in His image, perfect and
immortal. Wanting her to witness his ascendancy, he has Mallory placed in
spiked handcuffs and suspended from the ceiling rather than destroying
her. Mallory reminds him that she never works alone, so the Pope/Abbadon
calls in Morphine the succubus, who can assume other personas. Morphine
metamorphs into Mallory, kills the Minister of Secret Services, and
convinces the Army General to send his troops to the Loire valley, leaving
Paris unprotected.Morphine then pays a visit to Tina in her hospital bed. Tina [Thylda Barès] has
managed to get back into her own body, so when Morphine shows up, they
have a telepathic showdown. Tina wins. Because her body is still weak,
Tina takes over the body of a young nurse and returns to help Mallory. In
the meantime, Mallory's demon hubby comes to her to enjoy the spectacle
but, perhaps out of a sense of guilt or maybe even love for Mallory, he
informs her that the mixing of their blood when she killed him has
actually imbued her with power. He compels her to use this power to free
herself. Mallory focuses, and the handcuffs break away. Mallory kisses
demon hubby. The next thing she knows, she is kissing Carras.Tina advises Mallory and Carras about Morphine killing the chief and
having the troops sent to the Loire. The three of them hurry back to
Paris, where the Pope/Abbadon is invoking the Powers of the Universe and
the Forces of the Ether to open the Gates of Hell, where he intends to
send all humans (which doesn't sit well with the vampire Valentine). On a
makeshift altar in front of him lies Vena, awaiting sacrifice. While
ghouls chant "Abbadon! Abbadon!" Carras and Tina sneak up. Tina sends a
telepathic message to the ghouls to kill themselves and to one ghoul to
cut the ropes that bind Vena. They then turn on the rest of Abbadon's
followers while Mallory concentrates on Lady V.Suddenly, a line of protective green fire goes up around Abbadon.
Carras pulls out the rubbing he made and reads, "He who crosses the Line
of Peril shall confront his worse enemy. Only inner faith will triumph
over this ordeal." Mallory looks to Carras, but he throws away his cross.
His faith has crumbled, and he cannot help. The deed falls to Mallory.
Concentrating all her faith, Mallory steps across the flames. An ax takes
shape in her hands. Suddenly, she is facing herself in her wedding gown
and herself as an executioner. "You can't escape the Evil inside of you,"
says one of them. "Good and Evil are two faces of the same monster," says
the other. They take swings at Mallory with their axes. Mallory tosses
away her ax and ducks. Mallory the bride and Mallory the executioner
cancel each other out, and now it's just Mallory and Abbadon face-to-face.The sky opens up, and Abbadon attempts to force Mallory back, but she
struggles to approach him. When it's apparent that there is no stopping
her, Mallory grabs the edict from Abbadon's hands and eats it, mumbling,
"Fut toi!" She tosses Abbadon down the stairs, the sky closes up, and
Abbadon and Lady V tuck tails and run. "I lost the battle, but not the
war!" screams Abbadon as he goes through a door into the interstellar
void, tumbling...tumbling...Epilogue: Mallory visits the grave of her demon hubby and gives him
back his wedding ring, releasing him from limbo (re: Necronomicon, chapter
112). Lady Valentine moves to the island of Izu, Japan and becomes a special
correspondent on the television. The Commandos head for Japan. [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]

Tags: good versus evil

Review:
Like Xena and Buffy, it's tongue in cheek horror action..
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.
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's about a goverment-run team - beautiful leader Mallory, explosives expert and drag queen Vena Cava, and mute telepath Talking Tina - who fight evil, and have to go rescue the Pope when he is kidnapped by the forces of darkness.
If you've seen Prophecy, or read the comic Preacher (or even waded through Paradise Lost), you'll immediately be familiar with the bad-angel storyline.Amongst what could have just been a straightforward adventure in the Buffy/Xena mould, we get interesting back-story on Mallory's dead demon husband, who is a neat addition and really adds to the character as well as to the story..
Also, the dialogue is priceless - comic quips, jokes about nuns, a liberal dose of swearing (which is actually very funny), hilarious attacks on Catholic religion and dogma, and even some personality for the bad guys.It's brilliant Demon-kicking stuff, from the original opening titles to the end-credits sketch, and I thoroughly recommend it.
Where else can you see a blood-spattered bride team up with a priest, a mute telepathic little girl, and a 7-foot tall French-American drag queen?
People keep comparing this film to Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I see more comparisons to Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher.
If you like horror-comedies with their tongue firmly planted in its cheek, check out Bloody Mallory.
You could do a lot worse.Note for genre buffs: Valentina Vargas, who played Lady Valentine, was also the sexy Cenobite, Angelique, in Hellraiser: Bloodline..
A deliciously campy combination of the wild Japanese action film "Versus", the comedic gore of the "Evil Dead" series, and the supernatural girl power of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", "Bloody Mallory" is a stylish, self-aware, deliriously entertaining action/horror/comedy hybrid from France.Mallory (Olivia Bonamy) is a highly-trained government agent specializing in combating the supernatural.
Her back-up team consists of Talking Tina (Thylda Bares), a mute girl with telepathic abilities, and Vena Cava (Jeffrey Ribier), a drag queen with an affinity for guns and explosives.
When Pope Heironymus I (Laurent Spielvogel) is kidnapped by demonic operatives, it's up to Mallory and her team to recover him and stop a nefarious plot for world domination.
Joined by the kickboxing priest Father Carras (Adria Collado), the team faces off against vampires, succubi, ghouls, fallen angels, and other assorted nasties in their madcap mission.Director and co-writer Julien Magnat has created a unique film that borrows liberally from established action and horror franchises without resorting to cheap imitation or sycophantic flattery.
What helps matters is the fact that Magnat is consciously aiming for a feverishly campy aesthetic and realizes just how bizarre his creation may appear.The performances are all quite good, especially given the potential for the hammy, half-hearted B-movie acting that this film could be associated with.
Bonamy is perfectly believable as Mallory, a good balance of world-weary warrior and vulnerable heroine.
The most enjoyable performance, however, comes from Ribier as the scene-stealing Vena Cava, delivering the most amusing lines and memorable moments, all in huge platform boots and an electric blue wig.The only downfalls in the film are fairly major, but they do not impact the enjoyment of the film as much as would be expected.
A B-movie with aspirations to greatness, "Bloody Mallory" doesn't fail to amuse.
Highly recommended for fans of humorous, absurdist action films.
My review for Bloody Mallory - good camp horror fun.
One of the main reasons I write these reviews is to talk about films people haven't seen or just because afew people saw it and didn't like...
I heard about this film awhile ago and it wasn't until I saw the trailer for it that I became really interested in this French popcorn film about demons and seeing a hot chick kick demon ass.
It plays out just like comic action horror.
I loved the film's plot and script.
Here the writers(and director Julien Magnat) aren't trying to make this film more then it is...
I got it because I wanted it to be a fun treat and boy it was.For being B horror and a small budget this film never felt like it.
His talent and flair make this film feel like it way bigger then it was.
A lot of people compare this film to Buffy and I say it's better.
Bloody Mallory( which the only thing I see in common is an ass kicking female lead who kills demons) is more fun and popcorn.
I loved the way the film took it's own kind of new rethinkings on classic demons...like ghouls and stuff.
I loved when Mallory went into the cursed town to find all the horrors of hell.
He captures all the things that make this film feel just like a comic book come to life without over doing it(like in Catwoman).
I loved his use of colors and different kind of colors that gave this film a real interesting look.
I loved how he handled the characters straight forward and never let them feel like they were winking at the camera.
Believe me that this film isn't as bad as you think.
I'm just interesting in fun and this film delivers..
If you like over-the-top horror farces, this may be your movie!
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.
This French action / fantasy / horror hybrid features a super-team of crazy characters including 'Talking Tina', a mute 9-year-old telepath with the ability to inhabit and control other people.
'Vena Cava', the team's drag queen with the attitude to match and their fearless leader 'Mallory', a nasty tempered vixen who kicks demon cheeks.
Mallory and her misfits have 24 hours to get back the pope before the press gets the scoop and the world is damned.'Bloody Mallory' is a cheeky film that owes a lot to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and a little bit to 'Resident Evil'.
The acting is as tongue-in-cheek as you'd think of when dealing with a predominantly action / fantasy like this.
The screenplay isn't original by any stretch of the imagination but it moves quickly and the humor keeps you snickering.If you like 'Buffy' and / or 'Resident Evil' then you'll probably enjoy 'Bloody Mallory'..
The new Pope is kidnapped and caught up by ominous demon and Bloody Mallory(a warrior hunter woman likeness to Van Helsing) is contracted by Lady Valentine(Valentina Vargas)to rescue him.
She along with a thin and giant drag queen,a transformer telepathic and a bodyguard priest(Adria Collado) track down clues the kidnapper,the evil forces .They will confront against supernatural beings and bizarre creature as vampires, demons and zombies The picture mingles terror action with humor and irony .It's a B series entertainment with abundant sensationalistic scenes and with loads of blood and gore as when fight against weird living things with heads and limbs sliced off here and there and everywhere while other parts of body are slit open or blasted apart.The film packs a real sense of surprise and horror moments and wind up and bombastic final confrontation.While the look is suitable atmospheric and creepy the plot stretches plausibility to the end.
the flick will like to horror cinema enthusiastic and gore fans.
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.
This is a good comedy, like the Dance of the Vampires.
The film is a parody action comedy, fantastic, satanic, a little gore.
Neither the role of another character, a demon (though have killed with an ax at the beginning of the film and found it to be in limbo).
After hearing about Bloody Mallory in 2003.I was looking forward to it with eh,"bloody" anticipation.Cut to fall 05 where Lions gate has finally released it to the US.Its not what i had expected.But it is a lot of fun if you don't take it too seriously.I suspect if something like this had come out in the late 70's/early 80's,BM might have become a midnite-movie classic in the vein of Rocky horror.Saying It is a French Buffy would be the the general wording.But there is more to Mallory and her crew.They are much older(sans talking Tina),have a more aggressive nature,and more of a live-action-animae is better.The Movie is wall to wall goofy fun.Loads of outrageous gore.Some real funny moments.A lot of male bashing.Body-hopping.A direct shot on the Pope.Vampires,Zombies,slime-things,and demons.What is bizarre is the way BM moves into a few dramatic territories with such ease that it makes you wonder if this is the same movie.As Mallory,the luscious Olivia Bonamy more than fills the job with attitude,skills,and a surly demeanor.Love that hair.She shines in the movie's quieter moments where she captures our sympathy.Jeffrey Ribier as Vena Cava has little to do than look ridiculous.But comes of good-natured.Valentina Vargas is great as the vampire,Lady Valentine.Thylda Bares is okay as talking Tina,who steals the movie with her body-hopping scenes.Julien Magnat does Bloody Mallory with some degree of style.He makes the movie look like a Zena Episode on acid one minute.Mortal Kombat the next.Techno music included.You can tell he is a big horror fan.I look forward to his next outing.Not the most serious of horror flicks to come along.But for Goofy good fun Bllody Mallory is worth it.Where is the sequel?.
She has an incredibly beautiful face (she reminded me a bit of Kristy Swanson, the original "Buffy" - coincidence?), a magnificent, toned, fit body, lovely red hair, a hip hairstyle, an irreverent attitude, and she handles her fight scenes competently.
She's far and away the best reason to see "Bloody Mallory" - the rest is sometimes fun but mostly silly stuff.
The mythology presented in this movie is actually quite interesting, but the script seems to be inventing and changing its rules as it goes along, and it often gets overly silly (ghouls that get into karate fights, talking bats, etc.).
You can feel there was not much money but I love the film-making, I love the colors,I love the music,I love the humor, and I love the actors!!
but personally, I just love that movie cause with the short money they had, they did a great job!!
French people are not yet good and comfortable with that kind of movies (I'm french so I know...), we're usually more into drama or comedy but it's been something like 5 years now that the french are trying to make more "fantastic, action" movies!
"Bloody Mallory" has a real potential!.
Come on!Up until now, the lowest rating I gave for a movie was a 3 and it was for MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.
Because you can make a much worst movie than BLOODY MALLORY, but it is very easy to find much much better as well.The movie has the look and feel of one being made by a group of friends barely out of their teenager years, very amateur.
But it looks like people had fun making this movie and that they seriously tried to make something good with very little mean.But the weakest point is the script.
It looks like a script written by an immature 12-year-old putting all of his favourite scenes in one single movie and saying to himself "That will be awesome!" A low budget is never an excuse for a bad script.I sometimes read about bad acting in the comments on IMDb and I don't see it.
I don't know if it is due to bad actors, bad directing or the bad script, but there is zero emotions coming out of this movie.
The only rictus you'll have is by noting the bad/cheesy acting/line/scene/effect you will see.But don't get me wrong, the movie is not a bad experience in itself.
But it is like watching a movie your kids made: You like it because they made a good effort and it shows.So if you have nothing better to do and that movie happens to play on TV, give it a go, but don't expect much about it..
Buffy the Vampire Slayer in French!.
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.
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.
This film is a mixture of horror, comedy, drama and many daring attempts by the original fallen angel to free all his followers in order to gain back the entire world from God.A pope is even capture by a wild looking he/she with way out color styles and remarkable abilities to fight off the forces of evil.
Some things are pretty funny, but the overall impression is that they've wanted to copy series like Buffy, but it's not better and doesn't deserve the big screen.
Plays like a comic book, so I was surprised to find that it was an original story.
Lots of monsters, an unusual plot line, and Mallory's car is way cool.
One word of advice- if you can handle subtitles, watch it in it's original French- the translation is poor, and the dubbing is pretty bad.
It's not very well made, it is, for me, the sketch of a future good movie, exactly like "Buffy" - the feature movie - that was really bad but started a brilliant tv-show.
Freshman French feature film director Julian Magnet's "Bloody Mallory" qualifies as campy but colorful supernatural saga.
The English dubbed version sounds like a Japanese anime movie because everybody speaks perfectly."Bloody Mallory" opens with Mallory's back story.
Initially, the wall closes in to crush Mallory and Father Carras, but Vena Cava reverses the wall so that it comes toward her, Talking Tina, and the Pope.
Her team consists of a body-hopping telepath, and a drag queen.The Pope is kidnapped, and they have to rescue him.
But the Pope is in fact a demon who is preparing to destroy the world.And I think this is all supposed to be funny.
A fun & campy action-horror.
After the Pope is kidnapped, Mallory (Olivia Bonamy) and her Anti-Paranormal Commando unit are hired by the Vatican to find the Pope before the legion of demons that snatched him take over the world.
Can Mallory & her hearse-riding crew save the Pope and the world before it's too late?
It is, however, one of the more stylish films to come out in this branch of horror with its flash-editing, brightly coloured costumes, thumping techno soundtrack, and big choreographed fight scenes.
Olivia Bonamy, looking past her being gorgeous and all, does a great job as Mallory, especially with her ability to pull off being scantily clad in tight latex (which is a rare talent).
The creatures (including the talking bat and demon babies), though cool, are fairly cheesy and look like they were pulled straight out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Actually, much of the film is very Buffyish, with a little bit of Underworld and Resident Evil thrown in.
I should begin by noting that I cannot watch this movie in French; the dub is just too good.
The voice of Mallory sounds like feminist handing out her self help solutions.This movie is sublime.
It has everything I never knew I wanted in a French movie, including but not limited to nuns with exploding stomachs, darling psychic crazy girls, cute bats that get stuck in purses, the Pope, kung fu priests, and an evil vampire who survives thousands of years before learning why you don't steal things from people who use explosives.The style and exuberance all belong to a great Jackie Chan flick, only now with a French twist that gives it a distinctive visual beauty.
The leading lady is gorgeous, while the sporting supporting cast makes everything fun.In the genre of women driving around in pink hearses with transsexual explosives experts, this movie is tops.