Random 'Dracula 2000' Tried To Introduce A More EXTREME Vampire For New Millennium (14 items)

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  (#4) Van Helsing Prolongs His Life By Leeching Blood From Dracula

  About 10 minutes into the film, it's revealed that Van Helsing (yes, that's Christopher Plummer) isn’t the grandson of the Van Helsing from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but that he’s actually the real-deal Van Helsing. He’s been keeping himself alive by using leeches to drain blood from Dracula. 

  He then injects himself with the blood and ditches the leech in a fire just to make sure that there aren’t vampire leeches running around. It's an interesting take on Van Helsing and it provides a way for Dracula to hunt down Van Helsing's daughter - so it's more than just a gross plot point.
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  (#7) This Cast Is The Most 2000s Cast

  What do you get when combine Hackers, That '70s Show, and Save the Last Dance? The cast of Dracula 2000. The film features Jonny Lee Miller, Omar Epps, Jennifer Esposito, Jeri Ryan, Danny Masterson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Lochlyn Munroe, Sean West, and Nathan Fillion.

  Miller plays a kind of cockney antiquities dealer who gets in over his head with the whole vampire thing, while Jennifer Esposito plays Van Helsing’s assistant and a member of the high-tech gang. Epps, West, Munroe, and Masterson are high-tech thieves who use all manner of super-futuristic gadgets in order to rip off a safe that belongs to Van Helsing. Aside from Miller, it feels like everyone filmed their scenes on the weekends when they weren’t filming whatever TV show they were on.
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  (#2) Dracula's Coffin Is Protected By Ridiculous Booby Traps

  Early in the film, it’s revealed that Van Helsing keeps Dracula’s body in a silver coffin that’s surrounded by booby traps in case the bloodsucker escapes. It’s covered in crosses, which makes sense, but there are also spikes that fly down from the ceiling that are meant to keep Dracula at bay. 

  The thing about the spikes is that they don’t make a lot of sense. A set of spikes that comes straight down from the ceiling wouldn’t stop Dracula - at least not in the stake-through-the-heart kind of way. The spikes seem more likely to take out someone who’s next to the coffin - not escaping from it. 

  The most nonsensical thing about these booby traps is that they seem designed to feed Dracula the blood he so badly needs to return to life.
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  (#8) The Soundtrack Is A Real Time Capsule

  If Mountain Dew was a sound, it would be the soundtrack for this movie. The score sounds like demos for the score to The Matrix, and the soundtrack is a who’s who of where-are-they-now nü-metal acts, with a few radio metal bands peppered in.

  The soundtrack features Disturbed, System of a Down, Static-X, Hed PE, Taproot, and Linkin Park, just to name a few.
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  (#12) There’s A Flying Sex Scene

  It’s not an early 2000s horror movie without a bonkers romantic scene. Once Dracula finds his way around New Orleans, he visits the Virgin Megastore, and seduces Mary Van Helsing’s roommate Lucy (pop singer Vitamin C). She takes Dracula back to their apartment and the two engage in some off-the-wall love making - literally.

  Things start out normally, with Dracula and Lucy on the bed, but then they start floating through the air while still tastefully covered by a sheet. Things heat up when they spin around to climax on the ceiling. 
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  (#6) There's A Bunch Of Free Advertising For The Virgin Megastore

  One of the main reasons that Dracula 2000 feels like stepping through a time warp is the brick-and-mortar record store that gets a whole lot of screen time. The Virgin Megastore in New Orleans is prominently featured throughout the film. Its logo is on shirts and bags, and we even go inside the store to see its wide selection of music.

  After getting his mojo back, Dracula visits the Virgin Megastore to check out its VHS blowout and to find Mary Van Helsing. She’s not in the store, so Dracula takes a look around the store, giving the audience a peek at the signage. 

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