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It is the year 3000 and the deep space salvage ship Mother III locates the vanished starship Demeter in the Carpathian System.
They all go to discover it as they find a skeletal corpse along with some coffins filled with sand. They also see a tape of fifty years ago of Captain Varna (Udo Kier) telling that he was
locked in his cabin since his crew was acting weird after getting a
cargo of coffins in Transylvania station.
One of the crew
members named 187 (Coolio) tries to look around in the coffin for some
possible hidden dope but cuts his hand and his blood drips on some sand
in one of the coffins as something comes to life which named Count
Orlock (Langley Kirkwood) as 187 becomes his victim and becomes a
vampire.
One of the leaders of the ship named Aurora Ash (Erika Eleniak)
explains to the people that Count Orlock is a vampire but none of the
crew even knew what a vampire is until she explains it to them so they
all must try to survive and destroy Orlock and anyone who becomes his
victim.
A low budgeter that tried to almost borrow a bit from Alien but having a vampire on board instead of a creature.
It's pointless with alot of low production values but we have some
interesting performances by most of the cast members which makes up for
it sinking as well as it being an interesting story of a spaceship
picking up another abandoned one with vampire coffins which makes the
story exciting.
However, Count Dracula looks very dated in the old uniform with the
cape and all like you'd see in a film from the 1940's which makes a
film like this look extremely corny.
The acting is not as bad as it seems. Casper Van Dien seems to do okay playing the head captain of the ship as Abraham Van Helsing showing a tough and stern attitude.
Former Baywatch TV star Erika Eleniak seemed to pull off her character quite decently believe it or not showing quite a good character to her part.
Rapper Coolio brought quite a
bit of pizzaz and humor to his part of the film making him a nice
character actor as the first victim to Dracula and becoming his servant
showing great dynamic energy.
Grant Swanby as a professor in a wheelchair couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag though as he is so mellodramatic.
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister stood out the most of all the cast members as a
sarcastic one liking to goof off bringing his character off well to the
public.
Although Langley Kirkwood looked dated as Dracula he still seemed to know how to portray that type of character during most of the time in this film.
Sharp objects are stabbed through many vampires chests.
The directing by Darrell Roodt is awfully cheesy and corny with the surropundings and dialogues that happen in it but does have some fairly good moments too.
We have some good shots on Erika Eleniak wandering through the halls of another space ship and a shadow figure running by.
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister seems to pull off by acting like a jerk off by pulling Eleniak's chain by trying to tease her as she reacts well to not being impressed.
However, footage involving Udo Kier talking to a camera warning people what's on board was very dull and uninspired.
There's a good shot on Coolio's hand about to touch a skeletal corpse (Which looks totally fake) and Eleniak screams not to touch it which has a strong effect to this scene.
A good shot on Coolio's hand with blood dripping as well as drops of blood landing onto some sand in a coffin.
Coolio does well springing into action as a vampire jumping around and attacking. He shows some good humor when Eleniak points a shotgun towards him.
There's a scene with Langley Kirkwood softly touching Eleniak looked too planned out and corny.
There is a descent direction with Eleniak telling everyone who this person that came on board is and what a vampire is. Casper Van Dien is okay acting anxious towards her and pointing a gun at her while Lister is defending her pointing a gun at him.
Eleniak seems to do well to sweet talk Lister out of untying her as he shows good bluntness. There's also good shots on the two of them giving each other dirty looks.
There's a nice cold dialogue between Kirkwood and Dien showing some mist too.
We have a cold feeling with Kirkwood towards Grant Swanby tempting him to walk again as his character is in a wheelchair and offering his hand as that setting looked quite good.
There is a good evil vampirelike expression on Dien as well as him leaping on Lister.
We have a nice and peaceful dialogue between Eleniak and Lister towards the end of the movie.
There's some effective rusty metal sounds used in the film along with some plain classical music composed by Michael Hoenig.
Aurora Ash: You guys are so funny I don't know what to do with myself.
187:
I want to watch my anaconda spit all over your snow white ass.
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