Christopher Plummer, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Danny Masterson

As a director, Wes Craven has been able to infuse his horror movies with humor and some smart, often genuinely creepy, thrills, even on his lowest-budgeted films. As a producer of horror movies, well,...( read more  read more... ) his record has been spotty at best. Craven tapped his longtime editor Patrick Lussier to direct Dracula 2000, and the movie ends up with all the good and bad of "a Wes Craven production." A modern-day update of the Dracula legend, the script has some genuinely good ideas. Christopher Plummer (The Insider) takes a relatively juicy role as Van Helsing, owner of an antiques shop specializing in ancient weapons. He takes exception to how his namesake was portrayed in Bram Stoker's classic novel, which he's more than happy to tell his assistant (Jonny Lee Miller, "Sick Boy" from Trainspotting) without telling him the whole story. When Omar Epps leads a band of high-tech criminals to break into Van Helsing's high security vault (thinking that with so much security there's got to be something extremely valuable in there), what they end up stealing is the body of Dracula, who of course awakens from his slumber. When the story shifts to New Orleans, where Van Helsing's estranged daughter is working for the local Virgin Megastore (here metaphor is replaced by product placement), Dracula is drawn to her. The undead start to multiply, and the vampire hunt resumes. Another excellent idea deals with a new origin to Dracula, flashing back to biblical times to explain his aversion to silver and crosses. But there is a downside. Under the inept direction of Lussier the movie is never scary, inspiring instead an occasional feeling of pity for the actors. Overall, this a vampire movie for the mind, not the heart. --Andy Spletzer

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R, 99 min.

Directed by: Patrick Lussier

Release Date: December 22, 2000

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DVD Release Date: July 3, 2001

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  • October 13, 2007
    The worst Dracula adaptation to film ever made, and boy have there been a lot of movies about Dracula. So do the math about how many shitty past adaptations this thing is beating.
  • September 24, 2007
    lame.
  • September 14, 2007
    Weak...
  • August 13, 2007
    Not a good movie.
  • August 12, 2007
    This is average horror.
  • November 21, 2009
    Good for what it is. A campy new take on Dracula . A wonderful cast of great actors. And yes Dracula is in fact Gerard Butler but the cast is great. For a chessy take on the old vampire movies its a B movie . In no means is it on par with Dracula but a vampire movie non the less...( read more). And there are thousands of them I have seen Better I have seen woarse.
  • October 17, 2009
    I like how they presented the origin... the rest of the movie is okay.
  • October 14, 2009
    Historia moderna de vampiros con un final algo revelador
  • September 16, 2009
    Cool garbage.

    36/100
  • September 12, 2009
    Not quite what I had expected for this vampire movie. I thought I would not be able to sit through it (too scary?)...wrong. I only jumped once and that was when the body jumped...not much for blood (surprise), Thank Heavens they had some good looking people in it! Jonny Lee Mille...( read more)r with his English accent....(ohhhhh baby)....a lot of good actors and good special effects. And the whole Judas Iscariot as the first vampire...????? Well, to each their own. Considering I think vampires are really REALLY HOT...this was kind of a let down.

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June 4, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Dracula may stay undead in the new millennium, but there's not a sign of life -- oh, that bloodless acting -- in this sorry mess. full review

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  • goodangel1600
    November 18, 2006
    People! something good about this movie was that gerard Butler was in it..the vampire..you have to admit he was wayyyy sexy!

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