Dracula Rising

Dracula Rising is a 1993 American horror film directed by Fred Gallo shot in Bulgaria. It was financed by Roger Corman to cash in on Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula.^[1]

Dracula Rising
Directed by	Fred Gallo
Written by	Rodman Flender
Produced by	Mary Ann Fisher
Production company	New Concorde
Release date	1993 (1993)
Country	United States
Language	English

Cast

• Christopher Atkins as Vlad
• Stacey Travis as Theresa
• Doug Wert as Alec
• Tara McCann
• Vessela Karlukovska as Michelle
• Nikolai Sotirov as Timothy
• Zahari Vatahov as Vlad the Impaler
• Desi Stoyanova as Anna

Reception

Critic Kim Newman called it "a derivative little picture, indifferent overall but spasmodically intriguing."^[2] DVD Talk said it "sinks to inconceivably low depths, lacking any entertainment value whatsoever. Its runtime is a brief 80 minutes, but nearly every last second can be categorized as "wholly uninteresting dialogue" or "long awkward stretches of silence"."^[3]

The Schlock Pit wrote "Though attention-holding and functional, Dracula Rising stumbles in the script department. Its dreamy, flashback heavy structure becomes slightly draining despite the film’s snappy running time, and the clunkier passages of exposition aren’t helped by a miscast Atkins and his lack of charisma."^[4]