Dracula Rising
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List Price: $9.98
Features
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 January, 1993
DVD Release : 25 June, 2002 |
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Dracula Rising Customer Reviews
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Boring enough to induce sleep
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I bought this film partially because it starred Stacey Travis, who was great in HARDWARE (a wonderfully stylish post-apocalyptic TERMINATOR ripoff). I also liked her in GHOST WORLD (a poignant coming-of-age story co-starring the always interesting Steve Buscemi).
But DRACULA RISING falls far short of the quality of these two films.
Released in 1992, DRACULA RISING seems "inspired" by BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, Coppola's film about Dracula seeking the reincarnation of his ancient love. DRACULA RISING was produced by Roger Corman's New Concorde Productions, and it's typical of Corman to rush out knockoffs of recent hits. This is one of Corman's more boring knockoffs.
In DRACULA RISING, Dracula's son (played by the guy from BLUE LAGOON) seeks the reincarnation of his ancient love (Stacey Travis). He meet her in some ultra-low budget Los Angeles warehouse party. She then flies to Transylvania (the film was shot in Bulgaria) to restore a painting in a monestary.
Not much happens after that. Lots of flashbacks to their initial love. An evil vampire (sort of a friend/foe of Dracula's son) menaces Travis for a while, but promises to leave her for Dracula's son, who in turn does nothing much. He just mopes and moans and bares his fangs in angst, wanting Travis but not wanting to condemn her to a life of vampirism. Lots of boring soul-searching as the characters wander in the night, wander in the monestary, wander in catacombs, wander as they dream or experience flashbacks.
Travis is just sort of ... there. Not doing much. There is some soft-core porn, shots of Travis and the guy filmmed underwater while they swim nude.
The Bulgarian location looks authenticly Transylvanian, but the place is deserted aside from a servant girl. This low budget film couldn't afford many extras, aside from some angry villagers in a flashback.
I know a film is bad when I keep looking at the time, wondering how much longer the film will last, and am dejected that only a half hour has elapsed when it feels more like an hour.
The actors playing the two vampires aren't great. They bare their fangs and look menacing or angst-ridden, in a kooky unconvincing way. What's worse, their hair is cut short and looks stylishly blow-dried. Even in the flashback scenes set in the late 1400s, their hair is short and stylishly blow-dried!
Travis is pretty, but lacks charisma. (She was better in HARDWARE and GHOST WORLD, really.)
Film reminds me of EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE, another low budget, soft-core vampire film that really dragged and dragged and bored the hell out of me. |
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