I'll tell you why so serious

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I am a masochist. That is why I am trying to see all the movies from Harry Medved's book "The 50 Worst Films of All Time" as well as all of the Bottom 100 from IMDb. Masochism is the only thing that would explain it. Tonight I actually watched two films from the IMDb list. One, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself", turned out to actually be pretty good. On the other hand, "Way of the Vampire" was exactly what the masochist within me was seeking--a really, really bad film! Now it's hard to make a vampire film bad enough to be considered horrible--after all, there have been dozens and dozens of vampire films--some good, some bad. It takes a lot to make one that is so bad that it rises above the rest in wretchedness--and even worse than such entries as "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (ooh, the pain). Other than "Die-Hard Dracula" (which is in my top 5 of worst films of all-time--not just among vampire films, but ALL films), the only other vampire film to make this list of the worst 100 is "Way of the Vampire" and it earns it for completely different reasons than "Die-Hard Dracula"."Die-Hard Dracula" appeared to have been made using a home video camera and $6 worth of software. The other $35 dollars in the budget was spent for acting and script and stock footage--so it's no wonder that the film looks like a bad YouTube submission! But, "Way of the Vampire" is very different in that it looks great--a lot of money was spent on special effects and it looks professional. On the other hand, it has the most annoying dialog of perhaps any film in history--even worse than John Wayne's "The Conquerer". Each and every line of dialog sounds so incredibly pained and earnest--because the film is so very full of its own sense of self-importance. And on top of that, all the characters sounded like douche bags (am I allowed to say this--it's crass but right on the money). Imagine...it's a film where everyone talks like pained über-Goths--all the time and in every scene. It's absolutely terrible but also very funny because it's oh so bad.In addition to horrendous dialog that would embarrass most 7th graders, the film pretty much ignores all the vampire canon out there. Van Helsing is NOTHING like any Van Helsing I've ever seen before (including the Hugh Jackman version) and it turns out he's an immortal and a bit of a vampirey guy himself! And the vampires---they are all young and pretty hipsters--like having the cast of "Beverly Hills 90210" if they all became vampires! Also, while I love inclusion in films, what is a Black vampire doing in Transylvania in the middle ages when the film begins?! Doesn't this seem a bit anachronistic?! Or, perhaps the writers were so dumb that such an obvious problem didn't get noticed--or that they thought their audience was too dumb to see this.Annoying and full of itself, this is one incredibly bad film from start to finish. It's like being locked in a room with 100 incredibly whiny Goths who just won't shut up for two seconds!!!

I really miss watching horror movies, just a good and gory film that you can just have fun with. I saw the cover for Way of the Vampire, I mean this was just the coolest cover, it looked like a great cover with vampire hunters. So I rented it and took it home, sat down and watched it first thing, I don't know why I get my hopes up with these straight to DVD's. As always these movies are just bad, the script(which obviously had no research), the actors(who you can tell are the desperate waiters in LA, waiting for their "big break"), the effects(which could've been done by a 10 year old I know who's much better with computers), the editing(I think the editor, this must have been his first time because he went a little crazy), just everything about this movie is bad, but I'll try to explain the story.Van Helsing is given immortality to hunt down the vampire "princes" after the love of his life is turned into a vampire and he has killed her. So over a hundred years later he has lived to try to catch one vampire, Sebastien. He's got a new girlfriend at the hospital, but cannot find the prince, so when Sebastien is awaken by his vampire girlfriend to create an army of darkness, oh, what will our Van Helsing do? I guess get stung by a wasp who does apparently die by one sting, lol.Way of the Vampire is just one of those bad straight to DVD's that really sucks, believe me, I can't believe I fell for it, I know that I sometimes say that the ratings are wrong here on IMDb, but this is the rating I really wished I paid attention to the rating because I might have saved some time and money on this trash. Just trust me when I say that this is one of the worst excuses for film that you'll ever see in your life, it's worse than amateur, I just don't know how else to go on but to just warn you to stay away from this piece of trash.1/10

Saw this on the Sci-Fi channel. There is not one good thing about this movie. Not one! The directing. The Writing. The Lighting. The Editing all stink! The worst thing was the sound. It sounded like they recorded the sound on the built in microphone of a cheap video camera. It s amazing that something this bad could even get made. I could only watch 20 minutes of it. From the first 30 seconds you could how bad it was going to be. I didn't think it could get worse, but it actually does. After 20 minutes I was actually laughing out loud. After 30 minutes my brain was getting numb. I will keep the copy of it do add with Plan 9 and Robot Monster. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. If the Sci-Fi channel ever wants it's audience to grow they better start giving us better movies than this: One of the worst ever made.

the acting is horrible. it looks and sounds as if it was filmed on a home video camera the background audio overpowers the voices throughout the whole movie. the sound effects have been repeated over and over, it seems everyone has the same scream the actor who played hell-sing cant even pronounce Nosferatu, he says "nosterfartu" how can the people that edited miss something so obvious, maybe they were too caught up in trying to make people disappear by stopping the camera, getting the actor to move out of screen then starting it again. the visual effects could be done better on a high school editing suite. action scenes are just a disorienting confusion of flashes of the weapons closeup of the actors, the story line.... pathetic