Dracula 3000 is a horror movie that brings the legend of Dracula into outer space in the distant future (particularly, the year 3000). The movie can generally be referred to as a B-movie in that it had a relatively low budget, and a direct-to-video release. It is also regarded by many as the worst movie to ever bear the name of Dracula. DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula; U.S. postage stamp first issued in 1997 as part of a series celebrating Famous Movie Monsters Dracula (1897) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of the worlds most famous vampire character. ... Layers of Atmosphere - not to scale (NOAA) Outer space, also called just space, refers to the relatively empty regions of the Universe outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ...

Cast and Credits

Directed by: Darrell Roodt
Written by: Ivan Milborrow and Darrell Roodt

• Casper Van Dien as Captain Abraham Van Helsing
• Erika Eleniak as Aurora Ash
• Coolio as 187
• Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld as Mina Murry
• Grant Swanby as Arthur Holmwood
• Langley Kirkwood as Orlock
• Tom Lister Jr. Humvee
• Udo Kier as Capt. Varna

MPAA rating: R.
Filmed in: Germany/South Africa
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Overview

Captain Abraham Van Helsing (Van Dien) and his crew are salvage experts that make a living in the year 3000 by capturing abandoned space vessels and selling them for scrap. In their travels, they find a large space station that has supposedly been empty for 50 years after leaving the Corinthian sector of the Transylvania Galaxy. When they arrive on board, they find a storage hall filled with coffins. As 187 (Coolio) and Humvee (Lister Jr.) open the coffins in the hope of finding valuables to bring home, they find only sand. After opening a few coffins, 187 cuts his hand with a crowbar and spills some blood into one of the coffins. As Humvee leaves him to assist other crew members, Dracula awakens and takes 187 as his first minion.

The story then continues very much in a typical horror B-movie as one by one, most of the members of the crew are killed or transformed into vampires themselves.

External links

• Dracula 3000 at The Internet Movie Database