Dracula 3000 (2004)

What troubles me the most is that there are some people who trusted a crew and equipment to this guy.. is it Darrel? And why they didn't kill him during the preview? Coolio did not save the movie, neither did Casper Van Dean and not even Udo Kier. Nobody could save it, because literally nobody was directing.. But.. Perhaps there can be only one reason for making this .. product..?I think they made a movie to show students - how the horror movie should NOT be. And since they spent some money and wanted it back, they made a H.R.GIGEResque poster, wrapped and released this piece. And they just got away with it..

Many years ago my boyfriend and I rented this movie from the Video Store. We like Sci-Fi and we like vampire movies so we expected an evening with nice entertainment. Well we did get entertained but not in the way we had hoped!We were totally flabbergasted by the whole experience. Everything about this movie is so extremely bad, we just kept watching it until the end looking for something that wasn't so bad. Guess what? We did not find it..The story could have been interesting but it was just lame and boring. The acting was bad. Most amateurs would have done a better job at it. The set, the costumes and the the make-up were so amazingly cheap. The same goes for cam-work, sound, light and "special effects".I wouldn't be surprised if this was a study project from some first-year students in Film School.All in all we did laugh a lot although I don't think this movie was intended as a comedy. Besides the fun was about "this joke of a movie" not what the movie had to tell...After all these years it is still the worst movie I ever saw!

Never heard of this film before starting it on TMC on demand. Had I seen the reviews, I may have never had the opportunity to see what I will call, the worst film I have ever seen, including Troll 2. Dracula 3000 makes that bearable. This is my first IMDb review. I was compelled review this, even with my busy schedule, to warn people of the complete waste of however many minutes this film is, their life could be spent doing something better, like sucking boils from a homeless man's butt hole, for charity. 1 minute into the title sequence, I knew I was in trouble. It was a close up of what I could only guess was a blob of blood? For the entire sequence. My finger was poised on the remote for shutting it down in anticipation of B movie squalor. That is an insult to B movies!then I saw Erika Elaniak's name in the credits. I went to school with her so I decided I would watch a little to see how she was holding up. I also saw Casper Van Dien's name. His career hasn't been Pacino's but he has worked a bit. Can't be too bad, right? WRONG! Film schools should show this as an example of how not to make a film. I am a bit of an amateur film maker myself. I made a short, (awhile ago) written, shot, edited by and starring myself (and my mother's dog), but my 9 minutes short, shot while training myself how to use Sony Vegas editing software, for that sole purpose, was superior in many ways. I am not tooting my horn. I am really wondering how in the world something with a budget, albeit probably small, could be as bad as Dracula 3000! But I digress…Again, there are many bad points from the average movie goer standpoint but from a "filmmaker's" standpoint, it's probably worse. I will point out a few.The Set: This was either an abandoned Russian oil refinery or ship. The sea kind of ship, not the space kind. This was a film set in the range of years 2050ish to 3000. Interestingly, there was no effort made to hide this fact. Maybe the production/set designer had to take the day off for his kids little league game and they didn't want to lose their $200 deposit for the location?Acting: Yeah…I have seen 10 year old kids on YouTube make better films with better acting. Enough said there. Coolio SHOULD NEVER try to act. EVER! I won't even mention the other actors. I am surprised, Casper or Erika didn't just walk off the set early in the production for the sake of their pride, if not their 'career'. There's no way someone working on this could have possibly had illusions that this was going to be a decent film. I would have to blame the director. I have seen films where some of THIS cast was better. Not A-List good but better than this. Maybe the director was smoking some of Coolio's pot (which was one of the many poorly thought out, plot points of this film)?Sound design: Most people don't think of sound design. It's usually so well done, people who are not "in the know" don't even know someone spends countless hours creating Foley, sound effects,mixing and perfecting audio, etc. Anytime someone in this film runs,there is the sound of what literally I believe to be the sound effects from Donkey Kong, when Mario is running across the metal beams. If there was sound design (i was blissfully asleep by the end credits), I think they took a large pipe wrench and banged it against one of the large steel pipes in the space ship/factory/oil rig they were filming in and used one strike of the pipe as a footfall for the "actors" running across the steel floors.Screenplay: OMG! The dialog was terrible, racist, sexist, stereotypical, offensively bad. No thought what-so-ever was put into characters. They just went, "we cast a black guy so he will want to f*ck white woman and use dirty language and be disrespectful of whitey!", was their character development strategy. Costume: If you lookup "cheap Dracula costume", you will indeed find a better version of the costume than was used on 'Dracula' in this film. I swear! I did it myself. A large black cape, with a HUGE standing collar, probably twice the size of Bela Lugosi's and even Leslie Nielson's in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, and a white shirt that looked like it came from the thrift store used Tux section.I posted in groups on Facebook about how bad this film is: Someone asked me if it was worse than Terror At Blood Fart Lake. YES! Without a doubt. Blood Fart Lake deserves an Oscar vs. this!The only good that has come out of this film is the hilarious reviews and I wanted to be part of history in reviewing the worst film ever made. My 15 minutes?I could go on but I will leave you with this. As far as I know, this IS THE WORST film ever made. I haven't seen every film but I have seen a lot and many bad ones. Films like the aforementioned Horror At Blood Fart Lake was actually funny and meant to be. Zombie Ass: The Toilet Of The Dead -was a terribly stupid and ridiculous film but funny and meant to be. Dracula 3000 is actually meant to be serious, has zero redeeming qualities and is not funny.

I would kinda like to know what happened with the making of this movie with commentary or a behind the scenes extra. Its an interesting premise, but it misses the mark of watchable TV so badly it becomes a peculiar achievement. What went so wrong? How could this be made? Budget too low? Only had one hour? I have never, ever seen anything this bad. I love the genre, so I've seen bad and automatically cut the films some slack. Its exhilarating when I see a good one which this one is NOT. I hope its not a spoiler to warn you that this will be the worst movie you will ever see. Its really not even funny from that perspective. Its just really kinda sad.