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  Review by Kat ★★★★ 18

  Gerard is my Dracula. 2000 forever 🦇

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 9

  "Sorry Sport, I'm An Atheist.
  [a dagger pops out of the cross's base]
  God Loves You Anyway."

  Ok, but how and why does young Gerard Butler looks like Gavin Rossdale?

  I finally got to see this dracula iteration after 21 years. This is a version that always intrigued me when I saw it in the video store, on the movie screen, or even in the record store, due to its simple yet attractive cover. In part due to age, and in part because my mom has never been a fan of vampires or horror in general, it has taken till now to see this film.

  Despite not being as good as Nosferatu or Francis Ford Coppola's version, it is certainly…

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  Review by Tony the Terror ★★★½ 9

  I decided while I’m sick to make my movie viewing theme “movies most people don’t like that I love” which honestly is a huge percentage of my total movies watched so I guess it’s more like “big studio movies most people don’t like that I love”. This has a 2.0 average rating because y’all HATEFUL! Forgive, I’m still on cloud NyQuil. 

  This one probably deserves the low rating more than Ghosts of Mars, but what do you want from me? It’s pretty awful and I f*cking love it. It’s all just a nostalgic time capsule of a modern day Dracula tale starring Virgin Records and basically everyone who was hot circa 1999-ish: Vitamin C (LOVE her), Jonny Lee Miller, Omar…

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  Review by Gentry ★★½ 1

  “I don’t drink…coffee.”

  The Great Betrayer

  Christopher Plummer played Van Helsing in everything but name for the Kinski-without-Herzog spinoff, Nosferatu in Venice, but finally gets to play the vampire slaying man himself in Dracula 2000, a Weinstein and Wes Craven production rushed to the finish line for the end of the second millennium.

  More uh, interesting casting is Platinum selling pop star of the moment Vitamin C as Lucy Westenra/Westerman, Scottish stud Gerard Butler (in his first lead role) as Dracula, Star Trek: Voyager’s Jeri Ryan as one of his Brides—and we won’t mention that little curly haired fucking weasel from That 70s Show as antique thief “Nightshade.” But honorable mention to Jennifer Esposito as the sexy female Renfield, who…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★ 2

  A very ‘of its time’ presentation, I have a soft spot for this silly movie— even if Virgin Megastore has more screen time than Dracula.

  Lots can be said about this goofy ass yet strangely enjoyable movie, especially Christopher Plummer and his turn as Van Helsing—his whole carfax antiquity stronghold is awesome and I naturally he’s great here. Gerry, too. I dig that it plays around with a new spin on the monolithic Stoker story and even though it doesn’t all work but there is the New Orleans settings, the aversion to silver, and Dracula’s confirmed Monster Magnet fandom. I saw this opening night as a 15 year old And owned the soundtrack lol, it’s that Post-Scream era for sure and…

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★ 20

  If you are going to make a Dracula-themed long-form Virgin Megastore Infomercial at the very end of the XXth Century why would you NOT CAST Sir Richard Branson as Dracula? Watching Christopher Plummer mainline Dracula-infused leech ichor into Tree Of Life Track Marks is totally rad though. Probably the most rad thing in this movie. The second most rad thing in this movie is that Dracula in the pretty dull form of Gerard Butler wearing a black trenchcoat over a matching black t-shirt critique a Monster Magnet video as 'genius' and it isn't even an especially awesome Monster Magnet video but nonetheless makes me want to see a public access show from 2000 where Dracula does nothing but hang out…

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  Review by FakeVoorhees ★★½

  Since Dracula is revealed to be Judas Iscariot, I feel like it was a huge missed opportunity that the sequel wasn't a Dracula vs. Jesus movie.

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  Review by Aberrant Ghoul ★★★ 9

  In my review for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, I talked about how I love seeing all the ways Dracula is reinvented, reinterpreted and reimagined, over time. If I want the book, I'll just read the damn book. I want to see people take the character in new and exciting directions. And, with that in mind, I decided to dust off this relic from a bygone era. A film I haven't seen since the early 2000s, but that I remember sort of liking at the time.

  Well, perhaps some things should stay buried, in the past. This is such a weird time capsule of that transitional period between the 90s and the early 2000s. All Nu Metal, forgotten actors who were…

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★½ 1

  “Alexa, show me Dimension Films during the ‘90s,” he screamed at the TV, and a skinny Goth Gerard Butler appeared on the screen.

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  Review by HKFanatic ★★ 1

  Watchable Dimension Films trash that feels like a very post-"Matrix" idea of what a Dracula movie should be. (I was also thinking of the "Charlie's Angels" reboot that came out this same year—both have lots of Western ladies doing wire fu). Going back to my observation that many of these turn of the millennium genre programmers had their posts filled by overqualified talent: this film features costumes by Denise Cronenberg, a score by Marc "Scream" Beltrami, and was shot by legendary Hong Kong cinematographer Peter Pau, who was the DP on a long list of certified classics like "The Killer" and "The Bride with White Hair."

  Unfortunately, there's only so much they can do on a film co-written and directed…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★ 14

  Virgin Megastore: the movie. 

  I purchased a ton of CDs at numerous Virgin Megastore locations back in the day, including the soundtrack to this movie lol, which also happens to be a moving picture ad for the company which no longer has any U.S. locations.

  Dumb as a box of rocks but entertaining as all get out lol. I honestly love Gerry in this but Christopher Plummer steals the show here as Van Helsing. I dunno… it’s  goofy fun, very much of its era, and I’ve kinda always had a thing for this era of Dimension offerings.

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★

  This film's chief new contribution to Dracula lore is to posit that he is actually Judas Iscariot. This is also to the best of my knowledge the first adaptation in which Dracula does Matrix-style wire-fu. Like all bad movies from the early 2000s, this has a lot of nu metal on the soundtrack and contains a scene shot on the University of Toronto campus. With his long hair, Gerard Butler looks a bit like a young Justin Trudeau.

  I wonder if anyone who worked on this knew that Christopher Plummer also played Van Helsing in Nosferatu in Venice (1988). Maybe this is a sequel?