page_title: Bordello of Blood
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Bordello of Blood / Development
caption_attribution_description: Director Robert Zemeckis overseeing the shooting of his 1997 film "Contact"
context_page_description: Tales from the Crypt presents Bordello of Blood is a 1996 American horror comedy film directed by Gilbert Adler and written by Adler and A. L. Katz. Dennis Miller stars as Rafe Guttman, a private investigator hired by Catherine Verdoux to investigate the disappearance of her brother Caleb. Guttman's investigation leads him to a bordello run by Lilith. Guttman learns that the prostitutes are vampires, and must team up with televangelist Reverend J.C. Current to stop the vampire threat.
  The film was developed by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis in the 1970s after their college graduation. The duo conceived the original script as an exploitation film designed to break the duo into the film industry, but it went unproduced. The concept was subsequently revisited to serve as the second film in a proposed Tales from the Crypt film trilogy greenlit by Universal Pictures following the success of the first film spinoff of the HBO series, Demon Knight. Miller and Everhart were suggested for the cast by executive producer Joel Silver, though Adler and Katz wanted other actors to play the parts.
context_section_description: After graduating from USC in 1973, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis wrote an early draft of Bordello of Blood, wanting to break into the film industry by making an exploitation film about "a whorehouse full of vampires". They pitched Bordello of Blood to producer John Milius in the 1970s, but ultimately it was not produced at that time, and the three wound up making 1941 instead, but Milius described the scripts for Bordello and another proposed film from the duo entitled Tank as being "pretty darn good".
  Following the commercial success of the Tales from the Crypt film Demon Knight (1995), Universal Pictures greenlit two more Tales films, planning to make a film trilogy. The original proposed second film was Dead Easy (a.k.a. Fat Tuesday), a zombie film set in New Orleans, which never made it past the screenwriting stage because the producers felt the scripts leaned too heavily towards horror and lacked the series' humor. The producers also considered Quentin Tarantino's screenplay From Dusk till Dawn as a possible Tales from the Crypt film, as well as Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. During this development process, Robert Zemeckis was offered a contract with DreamWorks, and considering leaving Universal. To appease him into staying with the studio, it was agreed that a revised Bordello of Blood be produced as the second Tales film.
caption: Robert Zemeckis cowrote the story of Bordello of Blood with Bob Gale after graduating from college in 1973.
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