Transylmania
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| Directed by |
David Hillenbrand Scott Hillenbrand |
| Produced by |
Radu Badica Viorel Sergovici Kim Swartz Sanford Hampton Jor Van Kline |
| Written by |
Patrick Casey Worm Miller |
| Starring |
Patrick Cavanaugh James DeBello Tony Denman Musetta Vander Jennifer Lyons Oren Skoog Paul H. Kim David Steinberg Irena A. Hoffman |
| Distributed by | Full Circle |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $408,229 |
Transylmania is a 2009 horror/farce sequel to the 2006 comedy National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2. It was directed by the brothers David and Scott Hillenbrand, and was co-written by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller. The film was critically panned, and performed horribly at the box office, making it one of the biggest flops of 2009.
16th century Romania is terrorized by vampire king Radu, and his lover the evil sorceress Stephenia. Vampire hunter Victor Van Sloan tricks Stephenia into opening an enchanted music box, which sucks in her soul. Escaping out a window into daylight, Van Sloan falls to his death thanks to his moronic son's accidentally moving the hay cart which had been positioned to soften his landing. The music box is washed away in the river, leading Radu to begin a centuries-long search for it.
In the present, several American college students are convinced by their friend Rusty (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Radu) to spend a semester in Romania at Razvan University, which was formerly Radu's castle; his true reason is to meet his computer girlfriend Draguta. At the university, they meet the diminutive dean Floca and self-defense teacher Teodora, Van Sloan's descendant who has been tasked with preventing Radu from getting the music box. Radu returns to the castle that night, and begins collecting blood as part of a ceremony to revive Stephenia. Unfortunately, a truly dumb blond now owns the music box and accidentally lets her blood fall on the gem inside it; as a result, Stephenia can now take possession of her body when the music box is open. Rusty learns that Draguta is the dean's hunchback daughter; he is forced into a relationship with Draguta by Floca after finding her previous boyfriend locked in a torture room for simply standing her up. The other students discover that Floca kidnapped girls from the university for experiments to remove their heads for a body swap, to give Draguta a normal body. They take the still-living head of their friend just as Floca returns with Draguta for the procedure.
At the same time, Teodora has mistaken Rusty for Radu, due to the costume he chose for a vampire-themed party that he missed due to accidentally being given drugs that made him woozy. Rusty is accidentally taken by Radu's minions to enact the ritual to revive Stephenia; however, as this would require ripping out the heart of her host, Rusty is forced to shut the music box and listen to his friend's idiotic ramblings of how she thinks aliens are controlling her. Assaulted by her boyfriend, Rusty gives up on trying to help as his friends are too stupid to listen. Rusty spots Radu, and pretends to be a reflection through a frame used for pictures to buy time to hide; Teodora ends up finding the wrong one, but is forced to eliminate Radu's minions.
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