Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Billie Jean Doheny, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne.
An ancient evil stalks the landscape. The evil vampire lord Kagan casts a long shadow. The only hope of humanity lies with his daughter Rayne, who aims to avenge her mother and slay her father. However, she also has to reckon with the secret Brimstone Society, a human organisation that might have its own agenda.
At time of recording, it was ranked 32nd on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 6th May 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- BloodRayne at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Guinevere Turner talks to Engadget about her experience writing the script for BloodRayne, October 2011.
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- Michael Nordine at IndieWire reports on Uwe Boll’s accusations of plagiarism against The Phantom Thread for ripping off his BloodRayne poster, February 2018.
- Uwe Boll talks to Rotten Tomatoes about why he changed the historical setting of BloodRayne, May 2008.
- Elijah Beahm takes a look back at BloodRayne for Escapist Magazine, December 2020.
- Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku reports on Uwe Boll’s back-to-back filming of movies set in and around Auschwitz, September 2010.
- Kate Connolly at The Guardian reports on the response to Uwe Boll’s Auschwitz, November 2010.
- Clark Collis at Entertainment Weekly reports on the production of Uwe Boll’s Blubberella, October 2010.
- Patrick Lee at SyFy Wire takes a look at Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne: The Third Reich, December 2012.
- Imran Rahman-Jones at BBC takes a look bach at Uwe Boll’s career, October 2016.
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- Blake Harris at /Film offers an oral history of Masters of the Universe, October 2015.
- Karina Wilson at Lit Reactor discusses the legacy of vampires as the “zipless f&!k”, November 2011.
- Kelly McClure at Cosmopolitan offers a brief introduction to Anne Rice’s sexy (and sexual) vampires, October 2016.
- Anne Rice talks to Nerdist about her work and her legacy, February 2017.
- Anne Rice talks to Vulture about her work and about Twilight, December 2012.
- Billy Zane talks to MTV about working with Uwe Boll on BloodRayne, May 2006.
- The Associated Press reports on Uwe Boll suing Billy Zane, April 2008.
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- Chris Reid at Wing Commander News reports on the box office failure of BloodRayne, January 2006.
- CinemaBlend reports on how Uwe Boll took advantage of German tax laws to make his movies, October 2005.
- Uwe Boll talks to Media Mikes about how he finances his movies, March 2010.
- Chris Baker at Wired reports on the infamous “Raging Boll”, December 2006.
- Jess Sneider at The Wrap reports on the inevitable Raging Boll documentary, September 2010.
- Uwe Boll talks to Den of Geek about where he finds himself in his career, November 2008.
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