8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Stoker's Spinning, May 27, 2005
This review is from: Bram Stoker's Way Of the Vampire (DVD)
First of all, I love vampire movies. Even campy ones. But they better be good campy. This was neither. I gave this movie one star because it did show blood. That is the only thing reasonable I can say about a movie so cheap looking that most of the actresses in it look as if they should be porn stars.
There is a plot, I quess. Van Helsing is brassed off that his "true love" was killed by Dracula. So he becomes immortal himself, fast forward 100 yrs, and sets about killing off the remaining vamps.
That's it. Bram Stoker should rise from his grave and haunt the idiots who made this movie.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sigh... Very Horrible Version of Van Helsing Story, February 13, 2006
This review is from: Bram Stoker's Way Of the Vampire (DVD)
No, this is not `Dracula.' Not even `Dracula vs. Frankenstein.' This is yet another quickly-made, cheaper version of vampire flick that has nothing to so with Bram Stoker. And here is my advice: Don't watch it! No, don't even think about it.
The Asylum, independent film company which produced such films as `H. G. Well's War of the Worlds' (no, not Tom Cruise version, but C. T. Howell's) and `Frankenstein Reborn' in 2005 alone, gives another low-budget direct-to-video film. Having seen the first one, I expected little from this `Van Helsing' clone, but I never expected that this could be such a wretched film!
The film opens with evocative black and white images of the vampire hunters including Helsing (Rhett Giles), who are going to hunt down the Dracula and other vampires. It was 100 years ago, and Helsing succeeds in his mission, but has to pay the price later, losing his wife he left behind.
And Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is still living as young handsome doctor in one LA hospital because he was given an eternal life by the Catholic Church in order to kill all the vampire princes on earth. Until then, he is not allowed to die.
To be fair, the story is not bad. But the shoddy editing and poor acting ruin what little merit `Way of the Vampire' has in the first five minutes. I am willing to turn a blind eye to the low-budget production designs, but this is unacceptable. Lighting is so dark that you cannot see the actions clear enough, and the `stake' that should be driven into the heart of vampire looks like a sprig.
There is no `so-bad-so-good' fun here. Not even campy fun as in `Scream Blacula Scream.' Avoid this, and see Hugh Jackman's `Van Helsing' instead, It is not a classic, but 100 times more entertaining.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
UNNECESSARY RESURRECTION, September 4, 2005
This review is from: Bram Stoker's Way Of the Vampire (DVD)
Purportedly based on a short story by DRACULA scribe Bram Stoker, WAY OF THE VAMPIRE is a ridiculous, poorly directed and acted, waste of celluloid. Van Helsing (a stoic but bland Rhett Giles) is cursed with eternal life until all the darkest princes are destroyed. After a beheading of Dracula (a cameo by action star Paul Logan), Van Helsing lives through time until we meet up with him in present day Los Angeles. Vampires are a pitiful lot now, unable to hunt due to the curse of being caught and destroyed. However, led on by their leader Sebastian, they return to the hunt. Meanwhile Van Helsing assembled a motley crew of vampire slayers and the confrontation begins. The movie is hopelessly dull and offers no genuine thrills or chills. Another movie that gives support to the overkill of the Dracula legend, and proof that a truly original vampire movie or at least a refreshing update is hard to find.
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