Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97723 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-25
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 85 minutes

Customer Reviews

Love is Eternal . . .
A brilliant art restorer is called to work on an ancient painting that has been badly burned. Little does she know that she looks exactly like the woman that Dracula's son loved a century ago and was burned at the stake, falsely accused of witchcraft. It's a story of eternal love and conflict. Modern vampire lore with the flavor of classic gothic vampire tales mingled into it. It therefore may be a little slow paced for people who only like the "Blade" speed of films but I think most folks who enjoy vampire films will find something to like about this one.

Terrible
The movie's occasionally interesting cinematography cannot make up for its unfocused and ridiculous story of Dracula's son. Such a premise could definitely have yielded a good movie, but it's doubtful to me that the filmmakers really tried to make the most of the idea. Overall, this is a poorly executed film that is so bad it might be better off getting the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment.

Dracula Boring
Quickly following the release of "Bram Stoker's Dracula," "Dracula Rising" is an obvious attempt to cash in on the blockbuster hit of Francis Ford Coppola. This is nothing unusual, familiar tactics in the market for small studios, and what really matters is the film itself. Sadly "Dracula Rising" is very boring.

Theresa (Stacey Travis) is an art restorer traveling to Eastern Europe. Christopher Atkins (yes, the boy in "The Blue Lagoon") is Vlad, son of Vlad the Impaler, and younger Vlad believes that Theresa is a reincarnation of his long-dead sweetheart when he was a monk 500 years ago.

Now I have told you the story, which is a pretty familiar one, but is still OK. "Dracula Rising," however, tells it very slowly with countless flashbacks and overacting. It is strange, but "Dracula Rising" sometimes forgets it is a vampire film. It does not have much blood, but instead it includes one lengthy "love scene," one car explosion and one miniature set of "the underworld" where one character hurls an animated lightening to his opponent, very cheesy effects you see in old sci-fi films.

"Dracula Rising" is produced by Roger Corman, who two years later produced "Burial of the Rats" for TV, based on a great short story from the author of "Dracula." For this film he again uses the source material from Stoker, but the film's content has almost nothing to do with the book. Sometimes he produces a decent adaptation of gothic novels - "Game of Death" ("aka The Suicide Club") is worth watching - but as for "Dracula Rising" this is a big disappointment.