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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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong bloody violence, some sexuality and nudity

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Jan 6, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $1,550,000

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... 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]

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

Starring: Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Matthew Davis, Billy Zane, Will Sanderson, Udo Kier, Meat Loaf, Michael Pare

Director: Uwe Boll

Director: Uwe Boll
Studio: Romar Entertainment

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 15 2008 03:15 AM

Dark Horizons

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Rob Gonsalves

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 23 2007 06:29 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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Andrea Gronvall

Just when you thought camp was dead, along comes this bizarre cross between a Tarantino knockoff and a Hammer horror film.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 07 2007 12:53 PM

Chicago Reader

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Scott Tobias

Turgid drama and incompetently staged action sequences...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 27 2006 02:32 PM

AV Club

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0/4

Walter Chaw

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 06 2006 07:05 PM

Film Freak Central

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1/5

David Cornelius

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 21 2006 06:17 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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Staci Layne Wilson

BloodRayne is quite cheesy %u2014 the costumes resemble something out of the cosplay closet, and the dialogue is often appalling.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2006 11:11 AM

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JoBlo

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 03 2006 03:16 AM

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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1.5/4

John Beifuss

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 19 2006 09:22 AM

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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1/5

Robert Strohmeyer

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!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 16 2006 06:03 PM

Filmcritic.com

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2/5

Tim Cogshell

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 15 2006 03:15 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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Linda Cook

When on-line petitions beg directors to stop making films, is that the beginning of the end?

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 14 2006 09:21 PM

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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Roger Moore

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2006 03:05 PM

Orlando Sentinel

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Bill Gibron

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2006 01:40 PM

PopMatters

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Luke Y. Thompson

It'd be a stretch to call the movie good, but at least it's fun-bad.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 12 2006 02:45 AM

LYTRules.com

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Gregory Kirschling

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2006 11:27 AM

Entertainment Weekly

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2/5

Ken Hanke

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 11 2006 10:18 AM

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Carla Blumenkranz

After Rayne breaks out of the circus, it's a simple story, really, about a mixed-up girl who wants to slay her father.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 10 2006 01:03 PM

Village Voice

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Frank Scheck

Most of the budget seems to have been spent on the cast, with apparently little left over for sets or costumes.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 09 2006 03:40 PM

Hollywood Reporter

 
 
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May 23, 2008: Interview: Uwe Boll Talks Postal, Kevin Costner, and Answers Reader Mail
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