BloodRayne (film)

Movie
German title	BloodRayne
Original title	BloodRayne
Country of production	USA , Germany
original language	English
Publishing year	2005
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Uwe Boll
script	Guinevere Turner
production	Uwe Boll, ; Wolfgang Herold , ; Dan Clarke , ; Shawn Williamson
music	Henning Lohner
camera	Mathias Neumann
occupation
	Kristanna Loken : Rayne; Michael Madsen : Vladimir; Matthew Davis : Sebastian; Ben Kingsley : Kagan; Udo Kier : Regal Monk; Meat Loaf : Leonid; Michael Paré : Iancu; Billy Zane : Elrich; Michelle Rodríguez : Qatari; Geraldine Chaplin : Fortune Teller; Daniela Nane : Rayne's mother;
chronology
	Successor → ; BloodRayne II: Deliverance

BloodRayne is an American-German horror film from 2005 and the film adaptation of the computer game BloodRayne of the same name . The film was directed by Uwe Boll , with Kristanna Loken , Michael Madsen and Ben Kingsley in the leading roles .

content

The story takes place in 1723 and tells the beginnings of Rayne, the Brimstone Society and the sinister Lord Kagan. The attractive heroine Rayne is a " dhampir ", half human, half vampire. Your father is Lord Kagan. It is "held" as an attraction in a circus and performed again and again. When one night one of her tormentors tries to rape her, she kills him and many others in a blood frenzy.

On the run, she hears of a legend about three parts of the body of a powerful vampire (his heart, a rib and one of his eyes), which is supposed to bring power over humanity to the vampire who unites them. Rayne now wants to get these relics before Kagan to kill him with them.

When she found the eye in a monastery and absorbed it, she was henceforth immune to water. The monastery is attacked by Kagan's men and she is abducted.

Vladimir and Sebastian, two members of the Brimstone Society, manage to free them. You take them to their headquarters and train them.

While these three are outside of Brimstone, Kagan's men attack it, killing all of the residents. Rayne searches for and finds the heart of the mighty vampire; through this she wants to get to her father Kagan in order to kill him. Kagan, who in turn owns the rib, takes it prisoner and wants to extract the eye from it. Vladimir and Sebastian Rayne come to the rescue. It comes to the final fight in which both Vladimir and Sebastian and Kagan are killed. Rayne survives, sits on her father's throne and relives the bloodiest scenes in the film.

background

The budget for the film was $ 25 million. In the US it took 3,591,980 US dollars, in Germany BloodRayne was released directly on DVD .
Rock musician Alice Cooper contributed the previously unpublished title Mankind to the score .
There is also a director's cut that is 4 minutes longer than the theatrical version. The director's cut version was indexed in August 2007. The list was also deleted in August 2017 and the Director's Cut was also given the age rating “No youth approval” from the FSK .

Reviews

“Horror film based on a video game that tells a poorly assembled story without any internal logic. The very high production costs and the amazing cast alone make you sit up and take notice for a short time. "

- Lexicon of international film

“[…] It is not because of the considerable cast that Uwe Boll's third computer game adaptation lacks the necessary bite. Filmed at great expense on Romanian original locations, the story ripples along without any dramaturgical sophistication. Even duels, which Boll has staged better in other films, look strangely old-fashioned here. [...] And Boll knows no mercy: Part three is now to be created in Croatia. Conclusion: Uninhibited trash - a real Boll "

- Cinema

“The story seems as thin as the sheet of paper it is written on and less spectacular than an afternoon stroll with Boll's sheepdogs. As if the boring and confused story wasn't outrageous enough, the dialogues are hard to beat in terms of trite. It doesn't look any better on the technical side: The camera angles were chosen to be extremely unaesthetic, the sets look sterile, the cut is gruesome, the costumes and props look cheap and the fight choreography lacks any dynamism. "

- celluloid dreams

Awards

The film was nominated for the 2007 Golden Raspberry in six categories .

continuation

The sequel with the title BloodRayne II: Deliverance , also by Uwe Boll, was a direct-to-DVD production and was released in 2007. The third part was produced in 2010 under the title BloodRayne: The Third Reich .