Dracula 2001 (2000) – Patrick Lussier.

High tech, if patently lowbrow thieves foolhardily steal a heavily secured coffin in Van Helsing's tricked-out vault, with agreeably sexy, luridly bloodthirsty results. This stylised revamp of the Stoker mythos Hammers home it's noisome MTVeeeeee!!!! origins, energetically proving that occasionally glossy style and plentiful bloody substances make for a bloody tasty horror cocktail. A plasma rich B Positive bloodsucker, with a cultured Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer), a horny, Hallmark hunky Drac (Gerard Butler), a frustratingly pallid heroine(Justine Waddell), and a gorgeously gore-guzzling Jennifer Esposito slinkily sinking her fangs into those fatally beguiled by her sinisterly sultry spell! I still really dig Lussier's lively Dracula 2001, but I would have greatly preferred 'Countess Dracula 2001', as the exquisitely evil Esposito made for a dazzlingly beautiful, deliciously vicious vampire queen! I'm not disparaging Butler, he had a credibly broody Byronic hustle, but Esposito was just tomb much wicked woman to ignore!!!!!!