BloodRayne (film)

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BloodRayne
Movie poster
Directed by	Uwe Boll
Produced by	Dan Clarke, Uwe Boll, Wolfgang Herold
Written by	Guinevere Turner
Starring	Kristanna Loken Michael Madsen Matthew Davis Will Sanderson Billy Zane Udo Kier Michael Paré Meat Loaf with Michelle Rodriguez and Ben Kingsley
Distributed by	Romar Entertainment
Release date(s)	January 6, 2006 (USA)
Running time	94 min.
Language	English
Budget	$25 Million
Gross revenue	$3,650,275
Followed by	BloodRayne II: Deliverance

BloodRayne is a 2006 horror/fantasy film based on the eponymous video game from Majesco and the game developer, Terminal Reality, directed by Uwe Boll. The film stars Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane, and Matthew Davis.

The film was the third video game movie adaptation by Uwe Boll who previously made the movies based on House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. The film was critically panned upon its release, did poorly at the box office and was heavily disliked by co-star Michael Madsen. However, it received a very small cult following.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Reception 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Loosely based on the video game of the same name, the film centers on the character of Rayne (Kristanna Loken), an unholy breed of human and vampire called a Dhampir. Dhampir are unaffected by crucifixes and do not thirst for human blood. She is the daughter of the Vampire King Kagan (Ben Kingsley) who has gathered an army of thralls, both vampire and human, in order to annihilate the human race. She was conceived when Kagan raped her mother, and she later witnessed him killing her.

Sebastian (Matthew Davis), Vladimir (Michael Madsen), and Katarin (Michelle Rodriguez) are three members of the Brimstone Society, who fight vampires. When they hear of the Dhampir, Vladimir plans to recruit her in order to kill Kagan. A great portion of the story concerns the three body-parts of an ancient vampire that can make a vampire free of the basic weaknesses: all water (the eye), the cross (the rib), and the sun (the heart). As Kagan wants all these parts, it becomes the heroes' mission to stop him.

[edit] Reception

On January 6, 2006, the film opened in 985 theaters across the US. It was originally to have played at up to 2,500 theaters, but that number dropped to 1,600 and ended up lower due to prints being shipped to theaters that had not licensed the film.^[1][2] In its opening, the film only made $1,550,000 USD.^[3] BloodRayne has received poor reviews on Rotten Tomatoes with a freshness of only 4%. The film ended up grossing $3,591,980 USD (June 2006).^[3] The movie was criticized for not having much of a story, and for hiring prostitutes to reduce production costs.^[4]

It was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards including, Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Kristanna Loken), Worst Supporting Actor (Ben Kingsley), Worst Supporting Actress (Michelle Rodriguez), Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay.^{[citation needed]}

Bloodrayne did go to The Movie Channel, but was only shown a few times before going to the Sci-Fi Channel within a few months.

Star Michael Madsen has called BloodRayne "a horrifying and preposterous movie."^[5]

Laura Bailey, who was the voice of Rayne in the BloodRayne games, was asked at her panel at Anime Boston 2007 what her thoughts were on the BloodRayne movie and said "Oh God, that movie sucked. And that movie was so bad. I saw it on The Movie Channel and I couldn't even get through 20 minutes of it! It was so bad and it was kinda sad that they took that because I really liked the games."^[6]

The film was number one on Gametrailers countdown of the worst video game movies ever. The reviewers from gametrailers said that "every actor is miscast, every wig is too fake, every sex scene is too inappropriate, and every action scene is too improvised."^[7] In 2009, Time listed the film on their list of top ten worst video games movies.^[8]

Critics ridiculed director Boll for hiring actual prostitutes instead of actors for a scene featuring Meat Loaf in order to save on production costs. They were allegedly only paid 150 euros.^[9]

Next to the R-Rated version which was shown in cinemas, a more violent Unrated Director's cut was published on DVD. Overall the unrated version includes three extended violent scenes as well as an extended ending^[10].

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• BloodRayne at the Internet Movie Database
• BloodRayne at Allmovie
• BloodRayne at Rotten Tomatoes
• BloodRayne at Media Magik Entertainment
• BloodRayne at Metacritic
• Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension
• Behind the scenes video
• Interview with Uwe Boll - Now Playing magazine
• BloodRayne Slovakia - info, pictures, videos about BloodRayne movies and games (slovak language only)

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v • d • e BloodRayne series Video games BloodRayne (2002) • BloodRayne 2 (2004) Films BloodRayne (2006) • BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007) Characters Rayne • List of characters in BloodRayne