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BloodRayne (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 46 Fresh: 2  Rotten:44 Average Rating: 2.4/10
 
Consensus: BloodRayne is an absurd sword-and-sorcery vid-game adaptation from schlock-maestro Uwe Boll, featuring a distinguished (and slumming) cast.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Synopsis: This action-horror film is set in ancient Romania and stars Kristianna Loken (TERMINATOR 3) as Rayne, a half-human/half-vampire sworn to kill her evil tyrant vampire father (Ben Kingsley). Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, and Matthew Davis play a trio of vampire hunters who ally... This action-horror film is set in ancient Romania and stars Kristianna Loken (TERMINATOR 3) as Rayne, a half-human/half-vampire sworn to kill her evil tyrant vampire father (Ben Kingsley). Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, and Matthew Davis play a trio of vampire hunters who ally themselves with Rayne. Based on a video game, this film earns its R-rating by offering a lot more blood, gore, and nudity--and less CGI effects--than most of its modern vamp contemporaries. With all its swords, chained breasts, gushing arteries, and severed heads, BLOODRAYNE seems more like a welcome throwback to those great early 1980s drive-in sword and sorcery flicks. In between the slashing and gouging there are torch-lit castles, nefarious booby traps, blurry flashbacks, and aerial camera shots that swoop down through the gorgeous Carpathian landscapes. Loken, with her fangs and low-rider leather chaps, looks pretty gorgeous herself, and there's a surprising number of name actors in bit parts, including Meat Loaf (as a vamp surrounded by nubile naked concubines), Geraldine Chaplin (as a fortune teller), and--clearly having the most fun--Billy Zane as a bored vampire king plotting to take over the kingdom. It's directed by Uwe Boll, the man who gave us the video game adaptations of HOUSE OF THE DEAD and ALONE IN THE DARK. Cult cinema fans should take this one to--and through--the heart, especially for the chance to see Madsen's period costume and long hair. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Michael Madsen

Director: Uwe Boll

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 5, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • 2 Disc Set
  • Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurette - 1. CGI Making of the Film with Storyboards

Additional Product:

  • PC Video Game - Bloodrayne 2

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01/15/08
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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1/5

The fight scenes are the worst kind of editing-room cheating, meant to cover for actors who haven't been trained to wield anything more intimidating than a cell phone.

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07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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Just when you thought camp was dead, along comes this bizarre cross between a Tarantino knockoff and a Hammer horror film.

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03/07/07
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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D+

Turgid drama and incompetently staged action sequences...

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11/27/06
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
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0/4

Only as bad as ordinary bad films and not as bad as getting your eyelid caught on a nail.

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07/06/06
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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1/5

This is a movie that begs you not to watch it.

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05/21/06
David Cornelius
eFilmCritic.com
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BloodRayne is quite cheesy %u2014 the costumes resemble something out of the cosplay closet, and the dialogue is often appalling.

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05/20/06
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com
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5/10

All in all, not as bad as you’d suspect and certainly serviceable for all who love the bloody, low-budget vamping gone wild.

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02/03/06
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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1.5/4

The supporting cast is mind-melting: Michael Madsen is as out of place in this Medieval milieu as Meat Loaf in a hoop skirt, and Meat Loaf is just out of place.

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01/19/06
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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1/5

It's as if Boll brought together the best team of talent he could possibly secure on short notice and then told them all to suck. And they do!

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01/16/06
Robert Strohmeyer
Filmcritic.com
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2/5

[Uwe Boll] is fast becoming known as one of the worst directors on the planet.

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01/15/06
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
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When on-line petitions beg directors to stop making films, is that the beginning of the end?

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01/14/06
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Who is Uwe Boll and why does he hate moviegoers so? The German hack, the one-man Blitzkrieg of Bad, is the worst filmmaker in the movies today.

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01/13/06
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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BloodRayne is a movie of unconnected plot dots. In the hands of director Uwe "German Tax Dodge" Boll, a simple sword and sorcery story with vampiric overtones turns into genre-jumping attempts to find an audience.

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01/13/06
Bill Gibron
PopMatters
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It'd be a stretch to call the movie good, but at least it's fun-bad.

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01/12/06
Luke Y. Thompson
LYTRules.com
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It's time to start paying attention to the oeuvre of German director Uwe Boll. At this rate, he'll become the Ed Wood of this new movie century.

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01/11/06
Gregory Kirschling
Entertainment Weekly
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2/5

If I thought for a minute this Roquefort-riddled camp-fest was as intentionally ridiculous, stilted, witless and over-the-top as it actually is, I'd congratulate Boll.

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01/11/06
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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After Rayne breaks out of the circus, it's a simple story, really, about a mixed-up girl who wants to slay her father.

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01/10/06
Carla Blumenkranz
Village Voice
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Most of the budget seems to have been spent on the cast, with apparently little left over for sets or costumes.

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01/09/06
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Uwe Boll is such a bad director that it must be intentional.

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01/09/06
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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