Dracula 3000 (2004)

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(Foreign Titles)

Nomination Year: 2006

SYNOPSIS: A salvage ship discovers a derelict freighter. They move in to investigate so that they can claim the ship and make a lot of money. If only they knew that its cargo was coffins. Coffins full of vampires.

A frankly-enjoyable film, which might almost be too good for Smithee consideration ... if not for the ending.

Kevin Hogan

Smithee Award Nominations

Crummiest Ending

Time To End the Movie Now

The two surviving crew members have locked themselves in a different part of the ship than Count Orlock (and their four staked comrades). Unfortunately, the ship is stuck on a collision course with a nearby sun -- ETA twelve hours. Neither of the survivors knows how to pilot the ship, so they decide to get some pre-death nookie. Meanwhile, Orlock is streaking through the ship (presumably to find and de-stake his cohorts for a last-ditch assault). Then the self-destruct mechanism set fifty years ago goes off. End of film.

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Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Darrell Roodt

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Casper Van Dien	<Not Yet in Database>	Is in a lot of sci-fi, fantasy, and action projects. Broke out as Johnny Rico in the Starship Troopers franchise. Voiced Amok in Alita: Battle Angel. And was both Johnny Cage on "Mortal Kombat: Legacy" and Andre Forester on "Watch Over Me."
Erika Eleniak	<Not Yet in Database>	Her first film role was as "Pretty Young Girl" in E.T. the Extraterrestrial. But was also Jordan Tate in Under Seige and played Elly May in the 1993 The Beverly Hillbillies.
Coolio	<Not Yet in Database>	Famous Rapper who got upset when "Weird Al" Yankovic did a parody of one of his songs.
Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld	<Not Yet in Database>
Grant Swanby	<Not Yet in Database>
Langley Kirkwood	<Not Yet in Database>
Tom Lister, Jr	<Not Yet in Database>	He is six feet seven inches tall, and was a WWF and WCW wrestler (under the names of "Zeus" and "ZGangsta"), so of course his nickname is "Tiny."
Udo Kier	<Not Yet in Database>	Prolific German actor from the '60s to the present. Played Dragonetti in Blade, Miller in The Painted Bird, and was the voice of the shadowy Professor Pericles on "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated."


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