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(#1) Gerard Butler Plays A Wavy-Haired, Hunky Dracula
When we first meet Dracula, he’s old, ugly, and practically dust. But after draining Danny Masterson and the guy from Save the Last Dance, he transforms into a total hunk. He literally stretches out his arms and molds himself a nice set of abs.
Along with his status as a super hunk, he gains the ability to lure every woman on the planet into his grasp. Butler primps and saunters through the movie, rarely wearing a shirt.
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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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(#3) Dracula Goes Buckwild On An Airplane
For the first act of the movie, Dracula is conspicuously absent from Dracula 2000, but after his coffin is taken by high-tech thieves to be flown to America, our main man Vlad Dracul causes some turbulence.
After draining a couple of the thieves on the plane, he chomps up Jennifer Esposito and then conjures a lightning storm to keep him out of the light before flying the plane to New Orleans with his mind.
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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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(#5) Van Helsing Lays The Hammer On A Bunch Of Baby Vampires
When Van Helsing arrives in New Orleans, he’s in bad shape. He hasn’t had any blood in days and his greatest rival is back in business. After tracking Dracula to a small church that’s being used to hold the bodies from the plane carrying the thieves, Van Helsing discovers that all of them have been turned into baby vamps.
Van Helsing doesn’t have any trouble dishing out justice to these newly formed vampires, and it’s only due to the inadequacy of his apprentice (Jonny Lee Miller) and the arrival of some small-town cops that they’re not all wiped out.
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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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(#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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(#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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(#9) The Movie Uses The Worst Kind Of Jump Scares
Like many of the horror films that Dimension was releasing in the early 2000s, Dracula 2000 just isn’t very scary. It’s incredibly watchable due to the camp factor, but most of the scares are of the jumpy variety.
They all essentially play out in the same way. A character will be staring out a window or at a book, then they’ll turn around and - BOOM - there’s Dracula. It works the first time, as most jump scares do, because it’s unexpected and Dracula looks super gross. The scares diminish throughout the movie, especially when it’s just Gerard Butler jumping out at the main cast.
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(#10) 'Dracula Vision' Is The Most Dated Thing About The Movie
Thankfully, there’s not a lot of “Dracula Vision” in this movie, but when it happens, it’s hard to miss. The most over the top usage of the “special effect” occurs when Dracula is overlooking New Orleans for his next meal. From there, the film cuts to a super sped-up trip through through Bourbon Street that feels very MTV Cribs.
It’s not bad; it’s just one of the most egregiously 2000s things about this movie.
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(#11) There’s A Monster Magnet Music Video In The Middle Of The Movie
At one point, the film just cuts to a series of disjointed images that turn out to be the Monster Magnet video for “Heads Explode.” The video doesn’t just play in the background; instead, it’s the only thing on screen for about 45 seconds.
The camera finally pulls back to show Dracula watching the video inside the New Orleans Virgin Megastore. He thinks about what he’s seeing for a moment and finally says, “Brilliant.”
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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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(#13) The Vampire Fight Scene Is Incredibly Extra
At the end of the film, Simon and Mary Van Helsing go head to head with Solina and Dracula. Simon and Solina's fight is actually pretty cool and ends with a very sharp pair of gardening shears getting more use than they have in years.
For Mary and Dracula, it’s a whole other scenario. At this point, she’s a vampire, so she has all kinds of evil superpowers that she can use to fight our hunky villain. They get into a kind of low-rent Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fight that ends with Dracula literally hanging from a neon cross until he’s set on fire in the sun.
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(#14) It Ends With The Revelation That Dracula Is Actually Judas Iscariot
About halfway through the movie, Van Helsing explains that Dracula isn’t harmed by crucifixes or holy water, but that they just really make him mad. This is all to set up a reveal at the end where it’s explained that Dracula is none other than Judas Iscariot.
The big reveal occurs when Dracula turns Mary Van Helsing and sinks her into a strobe light-filled flashback to the Last Supper. There, we see a fake-bearded Butler sell out Jesus for some silver before Christ is nailed to a cross.
As far as new a backstory for Dracula goes, it’s not a bad idea - it’s just the way it’s carried out. In another set of hands, this could have been pretty cool and not the kind of tossed-off bit of information that it is in Dracula 2000.
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Dracula 2000 is an American Gothic horror film, released in 2000, the movie based on Bram Stoker’s original novel Dracula in 1897. Dracula 2000 tells the story of Dracula and the Winston family. This is an extraordinary thriller, scary, and exciting movie. The movie attracted a large number of fans and achieved success, later, a series of sequels were released, which pushed the development of vampire movies to a peak.
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