| Dracula III: Legacy | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | Dracula III: Legacy |
| Directed by: | Patrick Lussier |
| Written by: | Patrick Lussier; Joel Soisson |
| Produced by: | Bob Weinstein; Harvey Weinstein; Joel Soisson; Nick Phillips; Andrew Rona; Ron Schmidt; W.K. Border |
| Music by: | Kevin Kliesch; Ceiri Torjussen |
| Cinematography: | Doug Milsome |
| Edited by: | Lisa Romaniw |
| Production | |
| Production: | Dimension Films Castel Film Romania Neo Art & Logic |
| Distributors: | Dimension Home Video |
| Released: | July 12th, 2005 |
| Running time: | 86 min. |
| Country: | USA/Romania |
| Language: | English |
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| Previous: | Dracula II: Ascension |
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Dracula III: Legacy is an American independent feature film of the vampire fiction subgenre of horror, loosely based on the concept of Dracula. It is a direct sequel to the 2003 film Dracula II: Ascension. The film was directed by Patrick Lussier with a script written by Lussier and Joel Soisson. It was produced by Castel Film Romania in association with Neo Art & Logic and distributed through Dimension Home Video. It was released direct-to-video on July 12th, 2005. This movie sees the return of several actors from the previous installment including Jason Scott Lee as ass-kicking priest Father Uffizi, Diane Neal as Elizabeth Baine, Jason London as Luke, Roy Scheider as Cardinal Siqueros and Stephen Billington as the second incarnation of the vampire lord Dracula. Adding to the cast for this third installment is Rutger Hauer as the newest iteration of the reborn blood-sucker.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Jason Scott Lee | Father Uffizi |
| Stephen Billington | Dracula II |
| Diane Neal | Elizabeth Blaine |
| Jason London | Luke |
| Rutger Hauer | Dracula III |
| Ilinca Goia | Marta |
| George Grigore | Bruno |
| Roy Scheider | Cardinal Siqueros |
| Tom Kane | EBC anchorman |
| Alexandra Wescourt | Julia Hughes |
| Serban Celea | Gabriel |
| Gavril Patru | Canadian lieutenant |
| Giuliano Doman | French sergeant |
| Valentin Popescu | French captain |
| Nicodim Ungureanu | Pavel |
| Claudiu Bleont | Bogdan |
| Georgeta Marin | Red shirt girl |
| Domnita Costantin | Old woman |
| Consantin Codrescu | Old man |
| Mircea Iulian Anca | Bishop boy |
| Gary J. Tunnicliffe | Tommy Tunnicliffe |
| Carmen Stimeriu | Vampire mom |
| Cosmin Chiriac | Vallon |
| Florin Porumb | Stiltman |
| Ioan Andrei Ionescu | Ragman |
| Ana-Maria Caragea | Red acrobat |
| Nicole Dutu | Rebel woman |
| Ioana Ginghina | Dracula's bride |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Dracula was created by Irish author Bram Stoker. He is the titular antagonist of Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which was inspired by an actual Wallachian nobleman known as Vlad II, aka Vlad the Impaler. The character has since been imagined as a powerful vampire count in various forms of media and has been played by many notable actors such as Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella, Gary Oldman, and even Leslie Nielsen.
- The tagline for this film is "You can't fight it. You can't kill it".
- This is the final installment in the Wes Craven Dracula film series.
- There are twenty-seven credited cast members in this film.
- Promotional material for this film carries the banner of "Wes Craven Presents", though Wes Craven had no involvement with the production of this film.
- Filming on Dracula III: Ascension began on October 10th, 2001 and concluded in December, 2001. It was filmed at Castle Film Studios in Bucharest, Romania. What better place to shoot a movie about Dracula, right?
- This movie was filmed back-to-back with Dracula II: Ascension.
- Actress Domnita Constantiniu, who plays an old woman, is credited as Domnita Costantin in this film.
- Actor Constantin Codrescu, who plays an old man, is credited as Consantin Codrescu in this film.
- Actor Ioan Ionescu, who plays the ragman, is credited as Ioan Andrei Ionescu in this film.
- Actress Anne-Marie Caragea, who plays an acrobat, is credited as Ana-Maria Caragea in this film.
- Actress Ioana Ginghina plays a Bride of Dracula in this film, but is uncredited for her participation.
- On the Internet Movie Database, Dracula III: Legacy has a Starmeter score of 4.6 out of 10 based on more than 3,400 user ratings. In the United States, the film has an unweighted mean average of 4.9 with 21% of the voting pool giving the film a 5 out of 10. 8.5% of voters gave the movie a perfect score of 10 while 8% of voters gave the film a 1.
- On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Dracula III: Legacy has a Tomatometer score of 43% based on seven posted critic reviews. It has 3 positive reviews and 4 negative reviews. The film has an audience score of 31% based on more than 5,000 ratings, averaging 2.6 out of 5. There is a 12% variance between the critics' score and the audience score with the majority favoring the critics' score.
- On Letterboxd, Dracula III: Legacy has a weighted average score of 2.19 out of 5 based on 1,469 user votes.
- Second unit director and makeup artist Gary J. Tunnicliffe has a cameo appearance in the film as cameraman Tommy Tunnicliffe.
- This is not Rutger Hauer's first go around wearing vampire fangs. He previously played the role of Lothos - the central antagonist of the 1992 horror-comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer.