Wes Craven presents Dracula

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Wes Craven presents Dracula
Original title Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Patrick Lussier
script Patrick Lussier
Joel Soisson
production WW Border
Joel Soisson
music Marco Beltrami
camera Peter Pau
cut Peter Devaney Flanagan
Patrick Lussier
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Wes Craven presents Dracula II - The Ascension

Wes Craven presents Dracula (original title: Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000 ) is an American movie of the genre horror film from 2000. The director was Patrick Lussier , who together with Joel Soisson the writer wrote. The main roles were played by Gerard Butler , Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller .

action

Matthew Van Helsing runs an antique shop in London with Simon Sheppard, his deputy. One day a coffin is stolen from the secured cellar under Van Helsing's office building , in which the thieves suspect valuables. The coffin is opened in a private plane in flight to the United States . There the thieves find the trapped vampire Dracula, who kills them all.

Van Helsing goes to the USA to meet Dracula, Sheppard secretly follows him. There he learns from his boss that this is actually Abraham Van Helsing, who defeated Dracula 100 years earlier, but could not find a way to kill him for good. He vowed not to die until he had killed Dracula and has kept himself alive ever since with Dracula's blood, which he injected - filtered through leeches. In a morgue, Van Helsing and Sheppard have to fight the vampires who became members of the gang of thieves who were killed by Dracula.

It also turns out that Van Helsing has a daughter in New Orleans , Mary Heller. Since her father had a part of Dracula's blood in him and Mary was born with a part of Dracula blood, Dracula sees her as his soul mate and desperately wants to find her in order not to be alone anymore. When Van Helsing reaches the house where his daughter lives, Dracula is already waiting for him. Van Helsing dies, Sheppard is able to save Mary and the two hide in a monastery .

Heller and Sheppard suspect that Dracula is just one of the names of the vampire who must have existed for some time. Their research in the library of the monastery is interrupted by Dracula. While Simon tries to stop him, Mary flees to a cemetery. There she is found by Dracula and taken away. On the roof of a building, Dracula bites Mary in the neck, turning her into a vampire, and revealing who he really is. Dracula is Judas Iscariot who, after betraying Jesus Christ , tried to hang himself. But since the rope broke, he had to eke out his existence for thousands of years as an undead.

When two of the vampires bring Simon to Dracula, Mary asks Dracula to be allowed to kill Simon in order to get the last enemy of the vampires out of the way. But she only fakes the bite on Simon's neck and a fight ensues. While Simon kills the two vampires, Dracula tries to push Mary off the roof to punish her for betraying her. But she pulls a noose around Dracula's neck and falls off the roof with him. Mary falls to the ground, Dracula is hanged. He releases them, then burns in the light of the rising sun. From then on, Mary and Simon act as guardians of Dracula's remains.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “ not convincing despite successful approaches” , “because it had moments of shock, but hardly any tension” and “the flow of the narrative was repeatedly disturbed by stylistic coarseness” .

Cinema magazine described the film as "styled blood kitsch for the MTV generation" .

Awards

The film was nominated for the Film Awards Saturn Award in the category Best Horror nominated.

Sequels

The film received two sequels, both of which were directed by Patrick Lussier. In 2003 Wes Craven presented Dracula II - The Ascension and two years later Wes Craven presented Dracula III - Legacy . Both films were released directly on video or DVD. The role of the vampire-hunting Father Uffizi took over each Jason Scott Lee ; Dracula himself was portrayed by Stephen Billington in Part II, Rutger Hauer did this in Part III . Patrick Lussier and Joel Soisson wrote the scripts together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wes Craven presents Dracula. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used