bloodrayne

The film was the third video game movie adaption by Uwe Boll who previously made the movies based on House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. Similarly to those films the movie was neither a financial or critical success (see below) and caused tremors in the games fan-community before it had even been released.

Despite the film's limited success both Loken and Boll said, on the DVD commentary that they were interested in a possible sequel.

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Story

Based on the popular video game, the film centers on an attractive, supernatural huntress named Rayne (Loken), who is an unholy breed of human and vampire called a Dhampir. Trained by a secret agency called the Brimstone Society which hunts down and eliminates supernatural threats around the globe, Rayne is confronted by the deadliest of all creatures, the powerful and evil Kagan, King of the Vampires (Kingsley).

Response

On January 6, 2006 the film opened in 985 theaters nationwide. It was originally to have played at up to 2500 theaters, but that number dropped to 1600 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 RottenTomatoes with a freshness of only 5%. The film ended up grossing $3,591,980 USD (June 2006) [4]. The movie was criticized for not having much of a story, and for hiring prostitutes to stand in as actors to shave off production costs[5].

Release Dates

• United States: January 6, 2006
• Russia - February 16, 2006
• United Arab Emirates - March 15, 2006
• Canada - April 7, 2006
• Kuwait - April 12, 2006
• Japan - April 29, 2006
• Greece - June 15, 2006
• Lebanon - June 15, 2006
• Hungary - June 27, 2006

Sequel

BloodRayne 2: Deliverance" has been confirmed by sources linked to Uwe Boll. It is to begin shooting in 2007, and will be set in the Wild West. [6]

Trivia

• It is another of Uwe Boll's controversial video game based films.
• Uwe Boll was unable to direct House of the Dead 2 due to his commitment to the film.
• It is a prequel to the game, taking place 240 years prior to it, despite the fact that the Rayne character was established as being teenaged or in her early twenties at the start of the first game. It is said that the film is not part of the BloodRayne (videogame) series because it does not follow the BloodRayne time line.
• The company that bought the rights, Vierte Boll Kino Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG (Boll KG), is the same one for other game-to-movie adaptions Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead.
• BloodRayne premiered as the 53rd worst movie on IMDB.com's Bottom 100 list a week before the movie premiered.
• Acclaimed low budget German horror film director Olaf Ittenbach created the gore effects for the film, rather than a big budget FX studio.
• Critics [7] 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.
• Despite the film doing poorly in the United States, it has thus far performed well in its sole two countries: Russia and United Arab Emerates. In Russia, the movie debuted at #3 while United Arab Emirates debuted the film at #1.
• The film is still yet to be released in the United Kingdom.

See also

• Films considered the worst ever

External links

• Official site
• BloodRayne at the Internet Movie Database
• BloodRayne at Rotten Tomatoes
• BloodRayne at Metacritic
• Thorough Recap With Sarcasm at TarsTarkas.NET
• Behind the scenes video

Trailers

• Promo Trailer
• Upcoming Horror Movies
• Interview with Uwe Boll - Now Playing magazine