RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / In Theaters / Transylmania
Transylmania

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Showtimes & Tickets
  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Transylmania (2009)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
00 %
Tomatometer
Template Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:16

Fresh:0

Rotten:16

Average Rating:1.8/10

Rated: R

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Dec 4, 2009 Wide

Synopsis: In a year where vampires have returned to the forefront of the American zeitgeist with films and shows such as Twilight and True Blood, filmmakers David and Scott Hillenbrand bring some fresh blood... In a year where vampires have returned to the forefront of the American zeitgeist with films and shows such as Twilight and True Blood, filmmakers David and Scott Hillenbrand bring some fresh blood to the coven with their vampire parody Transylmania. The film will be released by Full Circle Releasing on December 4 across the United States.

In Transylmania, a motley group of college students embark on the wildest, sexiest, most outrageous semester abroad ever at Razvan University. Located deep in the heart of the “cursed land” of Transylvania in a centuries-old castle, Razvan isn’t your typical institution of higher learning – and the black leather-clad professors, three-foot-tall dean, instruction in crucifix-wielding, and topless vampiresses lurking in dark corners are just the start. It seems Castle Razvan was overtaken by a band of vampires led by the feared Vampire King Radu in the dark ages who’s come back to reclaim it.

A bubbling cauldron of wacky horror spoof, vampire action-adventure, and naughty college comedy, Transylmania culminates in a hilarious climax that just might leave our bumbling heroes not Euro-trashed, but Euro-slashed. Transylmaniawill be sure to slay audiences with its biting wit and bring a welcome levity to the air of heavy drama typically found in the midst of awards season.

Transylmania is directed by David and Scott Hillenbrand from a script by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller. The film stars Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Paul H. Kim, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Irena A. Hoffman, David Steinberg, Musetta Vander, Natalie Garza and Nicole Garza. --© Hillenbrand [More]

Starring: Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Jennifer Lyons

Starring: Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Jennifer Lyons

Director: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand

Director: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand
Screenwriter: Patrick Casey, Worm Miller
Studio: Full Circle Releasing

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
  • Trailer
    >
    Codex Eroticon
    >
    Stoner Trailer
    >
1 - 3 of 3

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "SAVE" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 

Reviews for Transylmania

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
 
 
1 - 17 (sorted by date)
Text View
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/25/09
Boxoffice Magazine

'Transylmania' LOOKS like a move. It's on film, after all, and it has a script and actors. But there the resemblance to any real movie ends. This tasteless mess should have been shuttled straight to DVD.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 3 Comments
12/12/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

David and Scott Hillenbrand’s stoner horror-comedy predictably provides more groans than laughs. The filmmakers had better pray someone in the theater is holding, if you know what we mean.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
12/09/09
Drew Toal
Drew Toal
Time Out New York

Woefully dull-witted.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/07/09
Tom Russo
Tom Russo
Boston Globe
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

With stronger actors and real writers, this might’ve been a vintage comedy you could sink your...nope, not going there.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
12/07/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
L.A. Weekly

Energetic but uninspired mix of teen comedy and supernatural silliness.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/07/09
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

If your idea of a good time is laughing with repulsion at a humpbacked Romanian nympho with a torture-loving midget dad, or tittering every time a bong appears, a darkened theater awaits you.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/07/09
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Transylmania is such a colossal comedic misfire that it makes the execrable Scary Movie films look like masterworks of Preston Sturges-esque genius by comparison.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
12/07/09
Steven Hyden
Steven Hyden
AV Club

It’s destined to spend a short and painful life in theaters and then join the ranks of the DVD and late-night-cable undead.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
12/07/09
Mike Hale
Mike Hale
New York Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

It has no artistic or social value, and it contains not one genuine laugh.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment 2 Comments
12/05/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media

Transylmania's characters are intensely irritating and its comedy is so obvious that you'll see the film's limp attempts at jokes coming a mile away.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment 1 Comment
12/05/09
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

Spoofs horror cliches rather than stringing together random, witless pop-culture gags like the Scary Movie franchise .... [but is] vulgar, juvenile, gross and not particularly funny.

Full Review Source: Horror Hacker | comment Comment
12/05/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Horror Hacker

Parental Content Review

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
12/04/09
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

One laugh -- Vampires, stuffed in their coffins on a horse-drawn wagon, whining to the driver -- "Are ve DERE yet?"

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment 5 Comments
12/04/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

A no-stars, no-plot, no-point vampire spoof about a group of coeds studying abroad in a haunted castle, Transylmania boasts the kind of acting and direction usually relegated to the adult section of your local video store.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/04/09
Adam Markovitz
Adam Markovitz
Entertainment Weekly
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Lame vampire spoof has no bite.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/04/09
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

I surveyed the crowd at the screening I attended, feeling the chill in the air as seven strangers sat in stone-cold silence -- not a single laugh from anyone. The eighth moviegoer? Fast asleep five minutes in. I've never envied a person more.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
12/04/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com
 
 
1 - 17 (sorted by date)
Text View
all

Latest News for Transylmania

December 03, 2009: Critics Consensus: Everybody's Fine Is Just OK
This week at the movies, we've got a fractured family (Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore); a sibling rivalry (Brothers, starring Natalie Portman and... More...

October 04, 2009: New: Brand New Trailer and Poster. Opens in new window
More...

September 05, 2009: Trailer & Poster review Opens in new window
More...

See All

More Movies

Close
Top Box Office
Tomatometer Percentage Movie Gross

In Theaters | More Box Office…

83% 83% Avatar $75.6M
70% 70% Sherlock Holmes $62.4M
22% 22% Alvin and the Chipmunk… $48.9M
50% 50% It's Complicated $22.1M
72% 72% The Blind Side $11.5M
89% 89% Up in the Air $11.3M
83% 83% Princess and the Frog $9.0M
37% 37% Nine $5.5M
14% 14% Did You Hear About the… $5.0M
76% 76% Invictus $4.0M
See All

RT On Current TV

The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current TV

DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196 | More...

Learn how you can be part of the show

More...

What’s Hot On RT

Critics' Best & Worst

Critics' Best & Worst

RT's critic friends offer their choices

Total Recall

Total Recall

We list 10 New Year's Eve-themed films!

Awards Tour

Awards Tour

Stay up on the latest awards and noms!

Forever After

Forever After

Celebrate Shrek's return with this trailer!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • New Moon Tops Moviefone's 2009 List Source: Hollywood Reporter
25
  • Star Trek Tops 2009's Most-Pirated Movies List Source: Hollywood Reporter
19
  • Weekly Ketchup: Peter Jackson's Secret Sci-Fi Project
111
  • New Toy Story 3 Clip, Photos Posted Source: Slashfilm
26
  • Danny Trejo Talks Machete, Possible Sequels Source: Collider.com
14
  • It's Official: Jackass 3-D Coming in 2010 Source: Collider.com
16
  • Bryan Singer Returning to X-Men for First Class Source: Superhero Hype
102
  • Mark Strong Talks Kick-Ass, John Carter, and Robin Hood Source: Collider.com
1
  • How Avatar Happened: The Path to Innovation Source: CinemaBlend.com
19
  • Rob Marshall Says Pirates 4 Is Still a Maybe Source: ComingSoon.net
32
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Avatar, Sherlock, and Alvin Team Up To Break Records
328
  • RT's Best of the Decade!
183
  • RT Editors Choose Their Favorite Films of 2009!
104
  • Critics Choose Must-Sees and Worsts of 2009
53
  • Weekly Ketchup: Peter Jackson's Secret Sci-Fi Project
37
  • Critics Consensus: Sherlock Holmes Is Worth Investigating
34
  • RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: 9 and Paranormal Activity
28
  • Total Recall: New Year's Eve Movies
17
  • Friday Harvest: Sherlock Holmes, Toy Story 3, and more!
10
  • What We're Watching on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox!
0
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Five Favorite Films With Peter Jackson
72
  • Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview
21
  • Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland
2
  • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
17
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
12
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
24
  • James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
8
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
16
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
24
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
9
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • Transylmania at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Transylmania at IGN

Fresh Links

Featured
Best Dozen of the Decade
Best Dozen of the Decade External Link

Last week, MSN gave us their top 09 films. Now see what their favorites of the decade are!

Top 50 of 2009
Top 50 of 2009 External Link

Here's a list of the 50 best movies of 2009, according to the good people over at Moviefone.

Santa's Naughty List
Santa's Naughty List External Link

Hollywood.com takes a stab at determining who in movies will be on Santa's naughty list in 2009.

Top 10 Movies of 2009
Top 10 Movies of 2009 External Link

TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.

Top 20 of the Decade
Top 20 of the Decade External Link

Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!

Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Follow RT on Twitter External Link

Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo
About Us | Advertise | Contact Us | Press | Careers
IGN | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | Direct2Drive | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Game Sites | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | GIGA.DE | What They Play | Battlefield Heroes
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. | Support | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! RSS Feeds
IGN’s enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA.
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.