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this movie sucks, discussion of scenes

posted 18 years ago by energisx
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First of all, the cover really really tricked me, the guy looks freakin hardcore with his crossbow and stake wearing a leather trenchcoat. I wasn't expecting a great movie considering it was straight-to-dvd, but I was expecting a ridiculously violent flick (something along the lines of Steven Seagal). I was disapointed to realize that the action in this movie completely sucked and required pratically no choreography.

Parts of the movie was just completely *beep* In an attempt to persuade and recruit a bunch of regular peeps to form a team of vampire hunters, Van Helsing just gives a off-the-wall speech about the war against vampires. Subsequently, these guys just nod and give corny lines along the lines of "we're in!". *sigh*

The computer effects look like they were done by an amateur. In one scene, a vampire makes a little hop off screen with a crappy blur added to him. Real sophisticated.

The final showdown between Van Helsing and Dracula...wtf was that?! All Van Helsing does is make slow/dull/unconvincing attempts to attack Dracula. If you've seen it, you'll get what I mean.

I only spent a buck 50 renting this movie, and I still feel cheated. Take my word for it, Don't Watch This Piece of Crap!

[–] bonem 18 years ago

In addition to the above comments (all true), I'm pretty sure that in the first church scene with the priest - Van Helsing refers to the vampires as "Nostrefatu" instead of Nosferatu - which gave me a minor laugh.

[–] baybmee 18 years ago

Well my WTF meter when off with the opening trailers...i sat there with this -i smell poo look on my face.... yeahhhhhha you watched it. Your better than i, i quietly pushed eject and put the movie back in it's sleeve. Based on your review i should step on it before i send it back to Netflix, but i won't.
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[–] draya10 18 years ago

I made it through 10 minutes of this dog of a movie. Dracula was having a major problem handling his dialogue AND his fangs! *Rech*

[–] sinbiotic 18 years ago

cmon.. what extoridinary use of that one building (in every scene), they really made their resources go along way.

the audio wasnt just bad on your dvd (i saw it on pay cable), it was just bad period.

there were points when i didnt even have a chance at decrypting what van helsing was saying. great echo/reverb, must have been someone's workplace they were shotting at.

they were shootting 'stray' light thru the middle of each scene too! hahahahaha! obviously an attempt to cover up the lack of production value.

the hot sista vampire, could.nt understand her eitha. her really cheap fangs, kept almost popping out during here dialogs with vampire man. the kicker is that you never really see her with fangs, so there is no reason why she should be having dialog with them in her mouth.

also very entertaining, when they flashed back to the past, wherever they were, anyways his old chick had a really nice american english accent.

anyways, they say its a horror/suspense..but i think it is straight out comedy!

prollyone of the poorest produced movies i have seen, and because of that... worth a watch!

[–] mulacki 18 years ago

I'm one of those that got suckered in by the Cover art. I found the film in a bargin bin at the local supermarket, payed 2 dollars for it....I want my money back.

I didn't even watch the entire movie, it was that bad. I only saw about 25 minute of it.

Acting reminds me of the *beep* I made in highschool productions.

Sound is just awful.

Production value is less than *beep*

It will be less painful to gauge out your eyes with a fork, than watching this piece of crap.

[–] the_cinnamon_spider 17 years ago

lol i got a late fee for this movie. it's really bad, what's with the noise the vampires make????

[–] Ensnentill 17 years ago

Granted the effects sucked. Yes it was hard to understand what they were saying. True, I spent the entire movie wondering why the rather obvious sunlight (didn't look at all like artificial light) coming through the windows never hurt the vampires, and yeah, the fights were no more complex than a sidekick every now and then.

But you've gotta give them props for the most dramatic "showing a woman drinking water out of a bottle" scene ever.

[–] dbrennan-6 17 years ago

Wow you actually spent money on this you were cheated. At least my excuse is that it was Encore and I couldn't sleep

[–] bloopers28222 17 years ago

Next time I better look at reviews before renting things. My god after 2 minutes I shut it off. Complete mess. I'll stick to renting Bones from now on.

[–] fox_euztwj 17 years ago

There's also a point in the "film" where they're shooting the interior training scenes with daylight coming through the windows. Then they show an exterior shot of the church at night. Then, back inside, where daylight is STILL coming through the windows.

I noticed the "nosrevatu" or whatever as well. Whatever he said, it wasn't Nosferatu.

Then there's the scene where VH leads his new trainees on their first "mission", but one vamp escapes the building...into the daylight outside.

[–] bttf_82 16 years ago

I got this film because I love Vampire films and I thought, you know give it a try its really cheap, but f*%k was it awful i cant even remember any scenes to analyse

[–] tiani23-1 14 years ago

Luckily, I saw this movie on Chiller, and did not waste a Netflix rental on it. I thought it was funny how in order to get to the vampire lair, you had to go through a bungalow type house, that happens to back up to an industrial warehouse. That was my WTF moment.

[–] illumanator 14 years ago

i found this movie on the new "syfy" and thought "hey, it says "bram stokers" might be worth a watch." but no dammit...just no. I watched the first 15 minutes and that was it. In the opening scene they are making their way thru a building or maybe a church or whatever but it had metal piping and drywall which i'm pretty sure weren't exactly used back then. then when the orderly from the very beginning began talking i about *beep* my pants with what bad actors they got.