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Not as Bad as I'd Hoped

posted 15 years ago by curtis-8
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After several years of hearing that this was one of the worst films ever made and the comparisons of its director to Ed Wood, I expected to be appalled by visible boom mics, bad dubbing, out of focus shots and actors forgetting their lines. Well, now I've seen it. What I got was a goofy flick the like of which I've seen dozens of times on SyFy. It's a competently put together hunk of junk. Should it have ever seen the theatrcal light of day? No, of course not. This should have gone straight to video. Maybe if I'd paid $9 to see it in the theaters I'd have been pissed. But I saw it like most folks have--on video.
That said, I don't understand the vitriolic hatred of this film I see here on IMDB and elsewhere on the Internet. I mean, COME ON! If BloodRayne is the worst, most poorly made film you've ever seen--horror or otherwise--then you just couldn't have seen very many films! I have seen literally hundreds of films much worse than this. MUCH, much,MUCH worse! If you go to Netflix and stream 10 new releases you've never heard of in the action catagory and 10 you've never heard of in the horror catagory, I guarantee you that you'll see at least 18 films worse than this one. (Steven Seagal anyone?)

The pile on hatred of this flick is just some kind of mass nerd hypnosis by people who want to feel superior to something along with a bunch of other people.

[–] gunnafan 15 years ago

What I hated so much about it was that it was boring. I wouldn't compare it to Ed Wood at all - because as you've pointed out this thing was competently made from the technical side of things - but this film is bad because it is just so boringly hard to watch.

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[–] prop_fan 15 years ago

I agree, there are MUCh worse films.

[–] HorrorMonkey 14 years ago

When I first watched it when it came out on DVD I was rather p*ssed because I really liked the games and just wanted a good BloodRayne film.

Over the years it has since grown on me. It's still horrible as a BloodRayne film and should have been a B-type fantasy flick made by the SciFi channel, but I've come to enjoy it. For me it's bad in a way that makes it entertaining. The costumes, the props, the acting...it's all so bad that it's funny.

Now BloodRayne 2 was bad--and not in the fun way. I couldn't even finish that one the first time I tried watching it because I actually fell asleep (I've see a lot of bad movies before but never one that was boring enough to put me to sleep).

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