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Metascore
16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekNever having read the book, I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA far cry from such sneakily subversive werewolf-sex tales as "The Company of Wolves" (1984) or "Ginver Snaps" (2000), this pallid little picture is all "Lost Boys" (1987) posturing by way of the sublimely ridiculous "Covenant" (2006).
- 50Boston GlobeBoston GlobeEntertaining in a B-movie sort of way, and you can't help admiring its earnestness about the philosophical issues it invokes.
- 40VarietyVarietyThe entire star-crossed scenario is conveyed with the narrative simplicity of a musicvideo, lingering in an almost fetishistic manner on sensual details (boxes of chocolates, a blood-red ribbon) while compressing important elements of the story into clumsy montages.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe lead performers certainly are highly attractive, making this one of the more sensual werewolf pictures in quite a while -- and to their credit, they do manage to keep a straight face throughout. But ultimately, the anemic Blood and Chocolate could have benefited from a little less chocolate and a lot more blood.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisUninvolving and cliché-ridden (even shape-shifters, it seems, deserve a falling-in-love montage), Blood & Chocolate is "Romeo and Juliet" with fewer manners and more exotic dentition.
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliHorror fans will be disgusted by the lack of gore. Romance fans will be disgusted by the presence of gore. One is tempted to applaud the filmmakers for trying something this daring, but the result isn't good enough to warrant any acclaim, however lukewarm it might be.
- 38New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsThough technically a werewolf movie, the silly Blood and Chocolate is really just a toothless love story about the bad stuff that can happen when two very different people fall in love.
- 25San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSan Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubNot since "An American Werewolf in London" in 1981 reset the standard for man-to-wolf transformations has anyone tried to get away with special effects as pitiful as the ones in this movie.
- 12New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithAs for the script, a wittier director would have spotted the absurd elements and delivered a horror-comedy instead of a straight-faced bore.