Dracula's Guest

Wife has this playing on Fear Net, have to say I loves me a good Dracula movie, but this is far from good, down right awful.

Being a Brit in the US I get fed up of Americans trying to sound English.

Another reviewer mentioned the guy playing Stoker having a lower English, Cockney accent, he is actually speaking in an Irish accent which shows someone did some research as Bram Stoker was Irish.

The rest of the accents and acting were really bad and the actor playing Dracula was a bad choice, he looked comical rather than dark and brooding as you'd expect.

I don't necessarily expect a scary movie to scare the life out of me to enjoy it but when it is cringe-worthy to watch it is just comical in a bad way.

When i rented this movie i wasn't expecting much, the only reason i rented it was because it had Dracula in the name. I know it is a stupid reason but i thought that it would be like another low budget vampire movie that was still entertaining.

The movie as i suspected had a semi good plot, but it was ruined by terrible actors, affects and director. The movie could have been good if they didn't cut everything out. It sounded good when i read the plot at the back of the DVD but when i watched it i was laughing most of the time.

Dracula was played by a large guy who didn't know how to work his fangs. Elizabeth couldn't do an English accent to save her life and her character seemed to whine and whine and whine. Elizabeth's father made me laugh because he was way over dramatic and Bram Stoker... well he just couldn't act.

This movie looked like it was made by students for a school project.

Its just too bad that this movie could have been good.

I recommend that you just skip this film and enjoy your night watching something else.

2 / 10

During Halloween we have a lot of scary movies on TV, it's always a lot of fun because I love horror. It's an adventure and an escape from the real world. Dracula is one of my favorite stories because he's such an interesting character, he's the only real monster that has personality. Because he has this image of being human, he's charming and you can easily be memorized by his charm while underneath he's a monster that wants to drain your body of blood and make you into his slave. Bram Stoker, I wonder if he ever knew how much impact his story would have to this day. But then again, I wonder if he knew what kind of crud some Hollywood producer would do to his material like they did with Dracula's Guest.

Even though it was a bit confusing, I'll try to explain the plot as best as I can. Bram Stoker and his fiancée Elizabeth, cannot wait to get married. But after her father sees Bram putting his arm around her and kissing her forehead(which I suppose was 3rd base at the time), he thinks they are not ready for marriage and that they should wait for a year to see if their love will stay strong and real. Bram agrees to please her father but Elizabeth hates the idea and runs away. Bram has gone to secure the Carfax Abbey for Dracula. While Elizabeth is on her way to find him, she meets Dracula and he kidnaps her to his castle. He rapes her, trying to breed with her to restore his family that has been cursed by her father's wars. Bram finds out that she has been kidnapped and now is on an adventure to save his love from the cursed count.

The acting and casting is just awful. You can tell these are the actors that are dying to get their big break and stop waiting tables. Especially Kelsey McCann who plays Elizabeth, possibly the worst British accent, up there with Keanu Reeves, and also probably took acting lessons from him as well. Andrew Bryniarskin who I will never understand why he was cast as he looks like a former heavy metal band member from the 70's. Not to mention his talking with the fangs was just so funny. Dan Speaker who plays Elizabeth's father is just laughable as his material is so cliché. The only redeeming quality was Wes Ramsey who played Bram and seemed to take the role seriously and work with what he was given.

I don't know if it was just the material, the movie or the cast, but everything about this film was just not redeemable. I don't know what I was expecting, but this is very possibly the worst Dracula movie of all time. It's not even a movie that you could say it's so bad that it turns into good again, just trust me this movie is frustrating. The plot has a lot of flaws and the cast makes this movie into a reason to take more acting lessons.

1/10

This movie is SO bad that I can barely stop laughing! The worst accents, acting, costumes, soundtrack, oh, and the dumb and dumbest storyline anyone could ever conceive of! In some scenes you could see LA in the background, and even hear the traffic! The chubby guy who plays Dracula looks more like he'd be I interested in eating a slice of pizza than impregnating Elizababeth, which is apparently the only point of this otherwise pointless movie... As a prior reviewer said, this movie is like cheesy porn without the porn... The most hilarious and cringe-worthy scene is when Dracula is lying on top of Elizabeth after implanting her with his 'demon seed' and she says "I will thrust myself on a ?? (gate of??) spikes!" I initially thought she said "ancient spike" - sorry, the accent was so bad I couldn't make it out! Anyway, the thought of Dracula as an 'ancient spike' is probably right. Elizabeth: "He planted the seed of the beast within my body" Bram: "I will tear him limb from limb!" Enough said.

I watched this on the FEARnet website, for free thank goodness. If I'd paid money to see this thing I'd have been quite ticked off. I seriously thought it was a fan-made film, something a group of amateurs had done for fun. Or maybe a student film. Then I found out it was released by Lions Gate. Seriously?! The plot was confusing and incoherent, much of the dialog was sappy and the 'acting' by most of the cast was atrocious. I gave it a 2 because it did make me giggle a few times, so I guess it could be considered slightly entertaining. However, it wasn't amusing enough for me to recommend it even as 'so bad it's good'. Don't waste your time.