with a reasonable budget ( $ 4mm and accord to imdb ) and atmospheric location shoot in rumania and and an intriguing premise and the breed should have be a gem of a vampire flick . instead and it a contest between screenwriter gage and fletcher comic book dialogue and bokeem woodbine unfathomably inept lead performance to see who can drive a stake through the heart of this mess first . on the positive side and adrian paul convinces a an impressively physical vampire detective . unfortunately and ling bai have zero chemistry with woodbine and although that probably not her fault and a nobody seem to . disappointingly and her beauty get bury under enough mascara to embarrass alice cooper . director michael oblowitz demonstrate a flair for tense shoot out . but each time he crank up the suspense and it take only a few word from the relentlessly unconvincing woodbine to obliterate the mood and return the viewer to square one . this become such a routine occurrence and one be tear between frustration and laughter . the screenwriter insistence on sophomoric in reference only serve to make matter bad . a doctor name fleming talk of james bond and blofeld and and other character be name ( no kidding ) lucy westernra and cross and orlock and gray and seward and and bathory . if that isn not enough and f bomb drop everywhere . needless to say and writer be answerable to director and director report to producer and and actor sometimes insist on improvising . so it hard to know who to blame for the end result . but ultimately and a another reviewer correctly observe and the breed can only be enjoy for what it have the potential to be .