“If you examine most of the myths, particularly the myths we consider the horror myths -- werewolves, vampires-- it probably is an expression of the fact that we all potentially have some sort of monster within us, something that doesn’t fit with the civilized world,” adds cast-member Hugh Dancy. The story of “Blood and Chocolate” explores this idea through a star-crossed love story.
“It really is about these people just trying to fit in and survive in the modern “Blood and Chocolate” civilized world,” says Agnes Bruckner. “Hopefully we haven’t done an injustice to the myths as they stand; we’ve just reinvented them and given them a new twist.”
Bruckner plays Vivian Gandillon, a headstrong young woman who “comes from a long line of leaders,” says Bruckner. “Her pack has plans for Vivian, but her blood has always told her not to go their way. She lives among them for protection and because they took her in after her family was slaughtered, but she is not exactly one of them.”
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Ten years ago, in the remote mountains of Colorado, a young girl watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. She survived by running into the woods, and changing into something the hunters could never find ... a wolf. Now, though she lives half a world away, Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner) is still running.
Living in relative safety in Bucharest, Vivian spends her days working at a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city's underground clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe (Bryan Dick) and his gang of delinquents he calls "The Five." But only when she's running through the woods around the city does Vivian feel truly free ... though whatever she's chasing seems continually to elude her.
Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy) is an artist researching Bucharest's ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel based on the mythology of the loup garoux - shapeshifters whose power to change effortlessly into the forms of both human and wolf was once considered holy among men. Wrestling demons of his own, Aiden hopes to explore the inner lives of these outsiders that he believes were persecuted to extinction - labeled monsters, murderers, werewolves.
This film has been rated RATED PG-13 by the MPAA for violence/terror, some sexuality and substance abuse
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