Dracula slakes his blood thirst and renews his search for love in New Orleans.Dracula slakes his blood thirst and renews his search for love in New Orleans.Dracula slakes his blood thirst and renews his search for love in New Orleans.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia(at around 1h) The line in the film where Jonny Lee Miller playing Simon Sheppard says, "Never, ever fuck with an antiques dealer," was a line the actor would say on set as a joke. The director liked it and incorporated it into the scene.
- GoofsVan Helsing's office building is in London, but the Security Guards on duty are armed. Security guards in the UK do not, and cannot, carry guns. Handguns are illegal in the UK and private citizens, even security guards, cannot possess handguns, much less can they carry them about. Handguns can only be carried by the armed forces and by specially trained police officers (and even then it is rare to see an armed police officer).
- Quotes
[while struggling with Marcus, Simon produces a cross]
Marcus: Sorry sport. I'm an atheist.
[a dagger pops out of the cross's base]
Simon Sheppard: God loves you anyway.
[He stabs Marcus in the eye with it]
- Crazy creditsAs the credits roll, interspersed in the words, are coloured pictures of things important to the movie's premise, including a row of teeth, a bat, and a cross. These pictures are seen both on the left and right sides.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dracula 2000: Deleted Scenes (2001)
Featured review
Dracula 2000 (3 outta 5 stars) I didn't expect much from this movie... so I guess that's why I ended up enjoying it as much as I did. There are some interesting interpretations of the vampire myth as it relates to Christianity (not to give anything away)... explaining vampires' aversion to crosses and silver, among other things. The story is kind of all over the place... Dracula is resurrected in the year 2000 by a band of wayward thieves who mistakenly believe that the mysterious Dr. Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer) is hiding something really valuable in that hidden, underground vault. Van Helsing's estranged daughter is simultaneously having weird visions... her father has tried to keep her free from the family legacy for years... but you know IL' Dracula isn't going to let that go on. I could have done without a lot of the wise-ass one-liners from the heroic leading man (Jonny Lee Miller)... it tends to cheapen the whole story and dilute the tension. Still, the movie is a lot better than other recent vampire flicks. I was a bit suspicious of the "Wes Craven Presents" that they tacked onto the title in a desperate ploy to attract an audience... but I think the movie is actually a lot better than 80% of the movies that Craven actually *does* direct. (I'm not much of a fan as you can probably guess.) Good flick... I'm not too sure I want to rush out and see the straight-to-video sequels though.
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $54,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,022,767
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,636,567
- Dec 25, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $47,053,625
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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