YMMV / BloodRayne: The Third Reich

• Complete Monster: Hauptsturmführer Ekart Brand and Dr. Wolfgang Mangler are two Nazi leaders overseeing the imprisonment and mass execution of hundreds of POWs. Discovering the existence of vampires, Brand survives a fight with Rayne, becoming a daywalking vampire himself; Mangler brutally tortures a vampire found among the prisoners to test their limits. Together they plan on perfecting the vampire strain, hoping to make Hitler truly immortal, with vampires ruling the Third Reich. They experiment on a prostitute who tried to give them information, turning her before eventually killing her. With Brand turning several officers, some against their will, into vampires, they nearly wipe out the resistance and capture Rayne. Mangler tortures Rayne to drain her blood, believing its "purity" will repel vampire weaknesses, planning to keep her alive as an "exhibit".
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Though it's still not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, it was at least better-received than both the first Bloodrayne movie and BloodRayne II: Deliverance. Its short running time, quick pace, tongue-in-cheek nature and more frequent action made it at least a more entertaining B-movie than its slow, overly self-serious and boring predecessor.

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