Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

CountVladDracula I was watching the Dracula the series DVD set and I realized there is a pretty big mistake and this mistake dates back to the series' original air dates.The final episode of the series is Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind. This ends with the semi-cliff hanger of Gustav Helsing following Lucard (Dracula) and Klaus through a portal in Dracula's castle. And the boys Christopher and Max preparing to return to America with all of Gustav's notes. Yet someone made the mistake of airing the episode My Dinner with Lucard after Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind.My Dinner with Lucard is a clips episode of all the previous episodes (leading up to Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind) and turned out to be a dream of Gustav Helsing. This is clearly set BEFORE he followed Lucard through the portal. I do not know why it was aired in the wrong order or why the DVD set maintains this misorder.Otherwise it's a great DVD set of a fun TV series in the vein (if you pardon the pun) of shows like Goosebumps. The show focuses on the adventures of sixteen-year-old Christopher Townsend and his ten-year-old brother Max Townsend. They take up residence with their Uncle Gustav Helsing who lives with a local student, Sophie. Chris and Max soon learn that their uncle is actually a vampire hunter from a long line of vampire hunters and their biggest thread is Alexander Lucard, a highly successful and corrupt corporate mogul (sort of like David Xanatos of Gargoyles) who turns out to be Dracula himself. It's a fun show but jut be wary of the mistake in the episode order.

jp1701 I first saw Dracula the TV series when I was nine. I liked it so much I became obsessed with vampires I even walk around in a black cape calling myself 'Dracula' I would were it every where even to the beach, yes I was that stupid. As I got older I stop doing that of course but I still credit this series for peaking an interest that later led me into Anne Rice. Seeing it now I have to view it a little more critically. The children (Max and Chris) are either written and/or acted poorly. Chris for example is made out of stereotypes that adults think of kids, Chris is into rap but never acts like it and all plays guitar like he is more into rock and role. They are in 'Europe' we never know where exactly and in the entire series I only count two other people other than Dracula himself who speaks with something other than an American accent, Sophie (who is still hot today)for example,always talks about 'American girls' while speaking in an American accent. Also the shows are only a half and hour, which makes everything, feel rushed. It also makes for slow development, the first episode is not very good, but pilots rarely are do to the fact that they take up most of their time explaining who everyone and what everything is but here they have to do that for two episodes. It's in the second episode in which they finally get around to explaining what it is that vampire bites can do. They can either leave you dead, turn you into a zombie, or make you into a vampire. They never get around to explaining how a vampire chooses which one to use but it is a good that they cleared up why Vampires are not over populating the Earth. Anne Rice's version was better but I like Dracula can make an Army of Zombies whenever he wants. The series has three saving graces. The first is Gordie Johnson's portrayal of Dracula is fun and incredible it still inspires me the way it did my nine-year old self. (Okay maybe not that extreme but I like him a lot better than the Buffy version.) The second is concept is the modern Dracula. It reminds me of Marv Wolvman's modernized version of Superman archenemies Lex Luthor. When you think of Count Dracula you think of the old vampire who became the Count of Transylvania, lives in castle with all his gold and spends his nights terrorizing the local population. What would Dracula do in modern times in our capitalistic democracy? Well for starters he would keep his money in a bank as opposed to his castle. He builds a huge corporate empire in order to gain power on the world stage. He cannot call himself Dracula anymore so he calls himself, Alexander Lucard (A.Lucard is Dracula backwards to fool the ignorant.) The third is their take on Dracula in relation to other vampires. In almost all other mediums (Dracula 2000, Blade, Van Helsing, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer) Count Dracula is portrayed as the first vampire and/or as a super-vampire who cannot be destroyed by the same way as other vampires. In this portrayal we see Dracula who is just a vampire (neither the oldest nor most powerful) who is the worlds greatest vampire because he is just smarter then all the others. He is in control of his vampire nature not the other way around. In closing this was a great series I just think there was a lot of potential wasted, it did not add up to Buffy the Vampire Slayer material. Though it did one thing better than Buffy and that is the way vampires looked when they were vampires. Vampires are not supposed to be ugly when they are vampires. I am complete convert to Anne Rice's idea that all vampires are supposed to be pretty. Werewolves do the ugly thing not vampires. Dracula the series accomplishes this.

SkippyDevereaux This is a great series. I found it for a very reasonable price, around $16.00 dollars, and snapped it up quickly. I remember wanting to see this when it first came out in 1990, but none of the television stations in my area carried it. I never imagined that I would have to wait 15 years to see it!! Geordie Johnson was a very good Dracula, not over-the-top or flamboyant like some actors who have portrayed this role in the past. Mr. Johnson has a very good speaking voice. It really fit the part magnificently. The actors that portrayed the kids were, for a change, not obnoxious or overtly cutesy. Sometimes a kid can kill a good program or movie and thankfully, they did not in this show. I only wish that this series had been able to have a final wrap-up episode.

king2000 i was a kid when this show was on, and it was a show for me!... not real scary or anything but had its moments... also that guy from "Forever Night" (Geraint Wyn Davies) played the part of helsings son turn vamp... and that was a cool show... i would love if sci fi channel would air the old shows that didn't make it to the big time....