Dir. Patrick Lussier
A long time ago in London there was a man named Van Helsing who fought against vampires. The first vampire, Dracula, was captured but couldn�t be killed by the usual methods. So Van Helsing decided to stay alive until he could figure out how to destroy the monster. To fight off age he placed leeches onto the trapped body of Dracula, extracted the blood from the critters, and injected it. Viola, immortality in a syringe. That alone is difference enough to make the show worth your while. Right around the same time Van Helsing was doing the blood thing he impregnated his wife, and they had a daughter. So this daughter, Mary, has Dracula�s blood in her veins. Even imprisoned Dracula could feel Mary through the blood link, and he invaded her dreams and driving her to the brink.
Van Helsing keeps the big D in a coffin in a vault which has the security of the White House, but with more stuff shooting out from the walls. A woman who works for Van Helsing notices this, and figures anything that protected must be worth stealing. She gets together a group of thieves, they get past the security and the traps�.and find nothing but a coffin. It is sealed, but they know that Van Helsing goes down to it on a regular basis. They rationalize stealing the coffin figuring it must be stuffed with gold and gems, and the whole death motif is just to play on the fears of any robber who gets this far. So they take it, finally open it, and Dracula is reintroduced into the world.
One more thing I like about this particular version of the undead king is his effect on women. Traditionally vampires are very sensual and seductive, and that�s a tradition this movie keeps. The actor is attractive, and the story has all women reacting to him the same way metal reacts to a magnet. There�s one hilarious scene where Drac is walking through a record store, and every woman inside literally turns to watch him walk by. It�s kind of fun that Gerard Butler, the actor who plays him, looks like he�s thrilled with every look thrown his way -- in a very cool vampiric way, of course.
This really is too much fun to pass up.