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Transylmania (2009)

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Reviews Counted:16

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Rotten:16

Average Rating:1.8/10

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: In a year where vampires have returned to the forefront of the American zeitgeist with films and shows such as Twilight and True Blood, filmmakers David and Scott Hillenbrand bring some fresh blood... In a year where vampires have returned to the forefront of the American zeitgeist with films and shows such as Twilight and True Blood, filmmakers David and Scott Hillenbrand bring some fresh blood to the coven with their vampire parody Transylmania. The film will be released by Full Circle Releasing on December 4 across the United States.

In Transylmania, a motley group of college students embark on the wildest, sexiest, most outrageous semester abroad ever at Razvan University. Located deep in the heart of the “cursed land” of Transylvania in a centuries-old castle, Razvan isn’t your typical institution of higher learning – and the black leather-clad professors, three-foot-tall dean, instruction in crucifix-wielding, and topless vampiresses lurking in dark corners are just the start. It seems Castle Razvan was overtaken by a band of vampires led by the feared Vampire King Radu in the dark ages who’s come back to reclaim it.

A bubbling cauldron of wacky horror spoof, vampire action-adventure, and naughty college comedy, Transylmania culminates in a hilarious climax that just might leave our bumbling heroes not Euro-trashed, but Euro-slashed. Transylmaniawill be sure to slay audiences with its biting wit and bring a welcome levity to the air of heavy drama typically found in the midst of awards season.

Transylmania is directed by David and Scott Hillenbrand from a script by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller. The film stars Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Paul H. Kim, Jennifer Lyons, Oren Skoog, Irena A. Hoffman, David Steinberg, Musetta Vander, Natalie Garza and Nicole Garza. --© Hillenbrand [More]

Starring: Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Jennifer Lyons

Starring: Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman, Jennifer Lyons

Director: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand

Director: David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand
Screenwriter: Patrick Casey, Worm Miller
Studio: Full Circle Releasing

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Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/25/09
Boxoffice Magazine

'Transylmania' LOOKS like a move. It's on film, after all, and it has a script and actors. But there the resemblance to any real movie ends. This tasteless mess should have been shuttled straight to DVD.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 3 Comments
12/12/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

David and Scott Hillenbrand’s stoner horror-comedy predictably provides more groans than laughs. The filmmakers had better pray someone in the theater is holding, if you know what we mean.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
12/09/09
Drew Toal
Drew Toal
Time Out New York

Woefully dull-witted.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/07/09
Tom Russo
Tom Russo
Boston Globe

With stronger actors and real writers, this might’ve been a vintage comedy you could sink your...nope, not going there.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
12/07/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
L.A. Weekly

Energetic but uninspired mix of teen comedy and supernatural silliness.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/07/09
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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If your idea of a good time is laughing with repulsion at a humpbacked Romanian nympho with a torture-loving midget dad, or tittering every time a bong appears, a darkened theater awaits you.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
12/07/09
Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
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Transylmania is such a colossal comedic misfire that it makes the execrable Scary Movie films look like masterworks of Preston Sturges-esque genius by comparison.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
12/07/09
Steven Hyden
Steven Hyden
AV Club

It’s destined to spend a short and painful life in theaters and then join the ranks of the DVD and late-night-cable undead.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
12/07/09
Mike Hale
Mike Hale
New York Times
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It has no artistic or social value, and it contains not one genuine laugh.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment 2 Comments
12/05/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Common Sense Media

Transylmania's characters are intensely irritating and its comedy is so obvious that you'll see the film's limp attempts at jokes coming a mile away.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment 1 Comment
12/05/09
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

Spoofs horror cliches rather than stringing together random, witless pop-culture gags like the Scary Movie franchise .... [but is] vulgar, juvenile, gross and not particularly funny.

Full Review Source: Horror Hacker | comment Comment
12/05/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
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Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
12/04/09
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

One laugh -- Vampires, stuffed in their coffins on a horse-drawn wagon, whining to the driver -- "Are ve DERE yet?"

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment 5 Comments
12/04/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

A no-stars, no-plot, no-point vampire spoof about a group of coeds studying abroad in a haunted castle, Transylmania boasts the kind of acting and direction usually relegated to the adult section of your local video store.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/04/09
Adam Markovitz
Adam Markovitz
Entertainment Weekly

Lame vampire spoof has no bite.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/04/09
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

I surveyed the crowd at the screening I attended, feeling the chill in the air as seven strangers sat in stone-cold silence -- not a single laugh from anyone. The eighth moviegoer? Fast asleep five minutes in. I've never envied a person more.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
12/04/09
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com
 
 
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