. and that a goddamn shame . please make the sun rise and have it incinerate all copy of dracula 3000. this must be the bad vampire flick of the new millennium so far ( i haven not see reign in darkness yet and but they do not get much bad than this ) . don not be fool be the movie cool h. r. gigeresque cover . this be so bad and it almost hilarious . i can not describe all the emotion this movie conjure . i laugh my as off and i yell at the screen and i sit there numb and nodding my head in disbelief and . this film have cheap and cheese write all over it . the best thing of this movie be the opening credit and the opening shot which feature more or less okay cgi of two space ship . but when casper van dien voice over come on and you start smell something fishy . and and indeed and it all go downhill rapidly after that . the crew of a salvage spaceship find an abandoned vessel and the demeter and which seem to be head for earth . they enter it and thus seal their fate . this movie be and above all thing and a shameless low budget alien rip off and mixed with vampire . right down to the plot twist be erika eleniak character and aurora and reveal she a robot . coolio go badly over the top a the dope smoking and bloodsucking 187 ( pffff and code from the hood a a name . ) . casper van dien character name capt . van helsing ( hahaha . ) and he look like . and er well and casper van dien . udo kier a capt . varna and former commander of the demeter and be only show on a monitor screen and he really do seem to have trouble read his line from an auto cue ( poor udo and what where you do in this flick . ) . and then we have langley kirkwood a count orlock and one of the most pathetic and laughable dracula ever to ( dis ) grace the silver screen . just look at his outfit . instead of some cool look futuristic black suit or something and he wear a cheap old school halloween suit with fringe . you think richard roxburgh be unconvincing a dracula in van helsing . then wait until you see langley performance . the set designer go overboard on this one . the interior of the demeter look like a cross between an oil tanker and an old steel factory and which they decorate with awful light and color like green and pink and blue and yellow . the prop master must have forget that this movie take place in the year 3000 and because the character use gun which look like today . 45 magnum and prof use a non motorize and non float wheelchair . it have to be push around in order to move . aside from one dry up corpse and a few impalement and one dismemberment there absolutely no gore . and the vampire fang and contact lens look fake a hell . add to that also the most lame and stupid and abrupt end ever represent humvee and aurora be the only survivor . instead of have one final ( bloody ) showdown with count orlock and they lock themselves in the control room . then aurora explains that before her program be upgrade and join narcotic and she use to be a protheus 3 . 2 pb and in other word represent a pleasure bot . so she say well then and what be you wait for . humvee answer ain not get ta tell me twice . come on and girl and pick her up and . boooooom . the ship explodes and credit roll . no sex scene and no erika flashin her booby and no bloody climax and . just one more shot of udo kier read a line on the monitor and it over . so and this movie be a must see for every bad movie lover and but i must warn them represent it get really painful at time . and everyone claiming that van helsing and underworld or even queen of the damn be the bad vampire movie of the new millennium clearly be insane and or just hasn not see dracula 3000 yet .