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3''Dracula 2000'' is a horror film released in 2000, "presented by" Creator/WesCraven but actually directed by Patrick Lussier, that sees {{Dracula}} (Creator/GerardButler) being awoken by a band of thieves who make off with his coffin. Dracula awakens and causes the thieves' plane to crash in New Orleans, where Mary (Justine Waddell), the daughter of Van Helsing (Creator/ChristopherPlummer) (who has kept himself alive with Dracula's blood) happens to live.
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5It also starred Creator/JonnyLeeMiller, Creator/JenniferEsposito, Creator/OmarEpps, Vitamin C, Creator/NathanFillion, Creator/DannyMasterson, Creator/LochlynMunro, Creator/ShaneWest, and Creator/JeriRyan.
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7Has two DirectToVideo sequels (which contradict the ending of ''2000''): ''Dracula II: Ascension'', with Stephen Billington taking over as Dracula and Creator/JasonScottLee, Creator/RoyScheider, and Creator/KharyPayton joining the cast alongside him, and ''Dracula III: Legacy'', where Creator/RutgerHauer played Dracula, with Lee and Schneider reprising their roles.
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9Unrelated to ''Film/Dracula3000''.
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12!!This film provides examples of:
13* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first film Creator/ChristopherPlummer played a vampire hunter up against Dracula, as he appeared in ''Nosferatu in Venice'', the 1988 sequel to ''Film/NosferatuTheVampyre''.
14* ArtisticLicenseHistory: This version of Dracula is said to have not only been Vlad the Impaler but UsefulNotes/GillesDeRais. He'd have had to be in two places at once because they lived at the same time! Would also make this a case of AdaptationalVillainy.
15* AnnualTitle: The number in the title is the year of release. Renamed ''Dracula 2001'' when it was released outside the US in... 2001.
16* ArmorPiercingQuestion: During the final battle, Mary and Dracula, aka [[spoiler: Judas Iscariot]], end up in front of a crucifix, and Dracula sneers [[spoiler: "He won't have me." Mary replies with a simple question: "Did you ever ''ask?''" Dracula is so stunned by the retort--and so furious at himself for never thinking of that in two millennia--that Mary is able to get the upper hand and overpower him.]]
17* BadassLongcoat: Dracula gets one by killing one of the thieves and stealing his clothes.
18* BiblicalBadGuy: Dracula is [[spoiler:Judas Iscariot]].
19* BigBad: Dracula, obviously.
20* BigGood: Van Helsing, Dracula's ArchEnemy.
21* BloodBath: Dracula's corpse is revived with one in the first sequel.
22* BoobyTrap: When the thieves try to remove the silver coffin, two of them are impaled by SpikesOfDoom. However this only convinces the rest that there must be something valuable inside.
23* CatapultNightmare: Mary, several times. Also a subversion of InstantWakingSkills, because she is noticeably incoherent for several minutes.
24* CelebrityParadox: Lucy stands in front of a row of Vitamin C [=CDs=] at her workplace, the [[ProductPlacement Virgin Megastore]]. Lucy was played by Colleen Fitzpatrick, aka pop singer Vitamin C.
25* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Marcus, an atheist vampire, is not frightened by a crucifix. Dracula is so anti-theist that when confronted by a bible, the bible flies apart.
26* {{Confessional}}: Mary goes to see a priest who is a old childhood friend, to confess the weird dreams she's been having about a strange man (Dracula, unsurprisingly) and to ask about her mother's dying confession.
27* CursedWithAwesome: Dracula. Apparently, [[spoiler:God's idea of a curse is to turn someone into a completely immortal, superpowered pornomancer. Of course, he will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.]]
28* DeadStarWalking: Creator/ChristopherPlummer, the biggest and most seasoned name in the cast, also gets killed less than halfway through the movie.
29* DeaderThanDead: What Van Helsing is trying to make Dracula.
30* DeadlineNews: Valerie, a news woman reporting on the plane crash that was originally flown by the thieves, ends up having her pre-recorded news segment interrupted by a revived Dracula who proceeds to kill her cameraman and make her into a vampire.
31* DecoyProtagonist: Van Helsing is well known as Dracula's ArchEnemy and takes up the BigGood role in this movie and played by the biggest name in the cast Creator/ChristopherPlummer, then he is KilledOffScreen for his Mary to see the aftermath.
32* DivinePunishment: When a vampire escapes from his coffin and goes on a bloodlust, TheHero aims to track him down. In his research, Van Helsing learns that Dracula is really [[spoiler:Judas Iscariot]], punished by God for his betrayal with immortality and an unquenchable thirst for blood. Dracula will be forever hated, hounded and hunted by men, and can only get respite by being buried alive.
33* DoubleEntendre: Quite a few!
34-->'''Vampire Selena:''' You know why you never had me, Simon? Because you Brits like to sweet talk and you Brits like to romance...and all I want to do is suck.
35* EyeScream: Marcus gets stabbed in the eye with a crucifix blade.
36* FaceDeathWithDignity: Dracula mockingly advises this to Doctor Seward, who whimpers and cries the whole time.
37* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Why silver? It's not uniquely Christian. Has to be something more... Something personal." [[spoiler:Cue a shot of the Last Supper]].
38* HeroKiller: The Brides of Dracula killed Van Helsing, the BigGood of this picture.
39* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: This being New Orleans, it's... [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans Mardi Gras]]!
40* HotterAndSexier: Compared to other Dracula adaptations, this one lays the {{fanservice}} on thick.
41* IDoNotDrinkWine: "I don't drink... coffee."
42* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: The interrogation room glass version. As the detectives behind the glass have just been smirking over Solina's "delusion" that she's a vampire, they're noticeably freaked out when she shouts, "Look at me when I'm talking to you!" She then continues to screw around with their minds, making them more freaked out.
43* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: ''Creator/WesCraven Presents Dracula 2000'' (Craven was an executive producer, but not the director).
44* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: Dracula is [[spoiler:Judas Iscariot]].
45* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
46-->'''Valerie:''' So tell me...you ever dream about making it with a [[Creator/JeriRyan TV star?]]
47* LooksLikeOrlok: The tomb holding Dracula's remains also has skulls of vampires that Van Helsing has killed in the past, one of which has ratty front teeth like Orlok.
48* MentorOccupationalHazard: Van Helsing, who acts as Simon's mentor on how to fight vampires, is killed later on.
49* MissingReflection
50** In a flashback scene it's shown Van Helsing used this to lure Dracula into a trap. As Dracula could see Van Helsing in a disguised mirror but not himself, he failed to realise the vampire hunter was actually standing behind him.
51** In the present day, Dracula attacks TV reporter Valerie Sharpe and her cameraman while they are filming the crashed plane he was on. Initially the cameraman can't see him through the viewfinder, so when Dracula grabs Valerie and cuts at her neck a bit, all he sees is her struggling and the cut suddenly appearing, until he lowers the camera. Likewise when Valerie runs to their van, she sees her cameraman being tossed aside by an invisible force on her monitors.
52* MonsterProgenitor: Dracula's the first vampire, [[spoiler:turned into such shortly after the death Jesus Christ]].
53* MyGrandsonMyself: Dr. Abraham Van Helsing uses Dracula's blood to keep himself immortal, in order to continue research on how to kill the vampire king for good. In the modern day, he passes himself off as his grandson, "Matthew Van Helsing". Unfortunately this creates a connection between Dracula and Mary--Van Helsing's daughter who was born after he started this practice.
54* OffWithHisHead: Most of the vampires get beheaded.
55* OnceMoreWithClarity: A truly epic version that spans ''all of vampire lore.'' After TheReveal described below, the heroes recall everything they ever learned about how to repel vampires, and realize that [[spoiler: it's related to Dracula being Judas Iscariot: the aversion to crucifixes and other Christian iconography comes his guilt over causing Jesus's death, while the weakness to silver is derived from the thirty pieces of silver that the chief priests paid Judas for his betrayal.]]
56* OutWithABang: Lucy winds up turned when she is seduced by Dracula and they have sex which winds up going off the bed to the ceiling (due to Drac's flying powers). She's so mesmerized that she doesn't notice Drac spouting fangs until he bites her.
57* ThePowerOfImagination: Parodied. When Simon brandishes a crucifix, Marcus [[NoSell laughs it off]], remarking, ''"sorry, sport. I'm an atheist."'' So Simon resorts to practical means - springing a dagger from the crucifix's base - and [[BondOneLiner quips]], ''"God loves you anyway."''
58* PreMortemOneLiner: To the above-mentioned atheist vampire: (while popping a switchblade out of the crucifix): [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czl5zVyyyds "God loves you anyway."]]
59* ProductPlacement: Mary works at the Virgin Megastore and the film is intent on the viewer not forgetting this.
60* TheReveal: Dracula is [[spoiler:Judas Iscariot]].
61* RevelingInTheNewForm: Marcus and his crew break into Van Helsing's vault and steal Dracula's coffin, believing it to hold valuable treasure. Dracula revives as they're flying him to America and kills the robbers. They later rise as vampires and the first thing Marcus says upon revival is "Better than money!"
62* ShownTheirWork: The ArmorPiercingQuestion described above--[[spoiler: "Did you ever ''ask?''"--is based on genuine Christian principles. Church doctrine states that no sin is too great for God to forgive, but the sinner must admit their fault and ''request'' forgiveness, which shows they are truly penitent and thus open to God's mercy.]]
63* TranshumanTreachery: Unknown for the first two women (Solina was always dubious since she was a thief and Valerie was a generally self-centered and egotistical person) but Lucy has no problems turning against Mary (who was her roommate and friend) once she's become a vampire.
64* TheTriple: Valerie Sharpe to her cameraman.
65-->'''Valerie:''' You gettin' the crash? You gettin' the sunset? [[MyEyesAreUpHere You gettin' the tits?]]
66* VampiresAreSexGods: Dracula and his three brides. Solina, after being turned, lampshaded this during the interrogation scene, drawing a connection between vampires and lovers:
67-->'''Detective''': Solina, Dr. Seward here tells me you believe yourself to be a vampire. Now how does one become a vampire, Solina?\
68'''Solina''': No, how does one become... a lover?\
69'''Detective''': Well, I-I don't know.\
70'''Solina''': [rises up in [[SelectiveGravity a non-human manner]]] One is chosen.\
71'''Detective''' [calls Dr. Seward]: [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe You see that?]]\
72'''Dr. Seward''' [turns around to face Solina]: See what?\
73'''Solina''': ''[sighs; sultry voice]'' Would you like to be chosen, Mr. Detective? Are you waiting for a woman to choose you as a lover?\
74'''Detective''': ''[turns to look at Dr. Seward]'' You getting this on tape?\
75'''Solina''': [[SuddenlyShouting Look at me when I'm talking to you!]]\
76'''Detective:''' ''[unnerved]'' Now, Solina, you... you can't see me.\
77'''Solina''': [[IKnowYoureWatchingMe Of course I can]]. ''[moves closer to window]'' I can even see the [[RagingStiffie outline of your cock against your pants]], so don't even pretend you're not interested.
78* VampiresHarem: After arriving in New Orleans, Dracula starts converting various women to become his new brides. The first one, Solina was one of the thieves who initially stole his coffin and accidentally set him free. The second one, Valerie, is a news reporter trying to cover the plane crash that brought Dracula to New Orleans. The third, Lucy, is the roommate of Mary.
79* VillainsDyingGrace: Dracula, as he dies, [[spoiler:releases Mary from her vampirism]]. That or he genuinely cared for her and it was an [[DeathEqualsRedemption act of redemption.]]
80* WanderingJew: Dracula, [[spoiler:literally, since he is Judas Iscariot]].
81* WightInAWeddingDress: When Simon goes after Dracula, he runs into the vampire brides now all wearing white gowns.
82* WallCrawl: Solina and Lucy do this when the brides confront Mary.
83* YouNeedToGetLaid: Mary has been [[BoyOfMyDreams dreaming of Dracula even though she's never met him]]. Her roommate Lucy suggests that having "a man in your bed will get rid of the man in your head."
84* ZeroGSpot: Involving vampiric levitation, rather than freefall.

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