Uwe Boll's career is… unprecedented. You can't talk about video game adaptations without mentioning Boll's name, but his catalog is prolific only in quantity. He's directed a staggering 10 films based on game properties, including Sega's House of the Dead and Ubisoft's Far Cry, and they're all varying levels of hot garbage. How did he keep cranking out Razzie-nominated stinkers? Boll's crafty manipulation of a German tax loophole meant he could self-finance and recoup massive costs, which allowed "Raging Boll" to stay afloat despite horrible reviews and box office results.
Of all Boll’s releases, it’s Bloodrayne, which hit the United States 20 years ago, that best represents his legacy. It's not his worst title released that year — take a bow, Alone in the Dark — but it ain’t much better. Boll's take on Majesco Entertainment and Terminal Reality's bloodsucking franchise is a wooden 18th-century vampire flick that unenthusiastically introduces movie audiences to Rayne, a vengeful half-human, half-vampire, aka a dhampir. Critics despised it (it sports a nauseating 4% on Rotten Tomatoes), and it grossed a catastrophic $3.7 million against a $25 million budget. You'd think that would be enough to stop any franchise hopes. Instead, BloodRayne might have been the worst horror movie to ever spawn a trilogy.
