Dracula vs the Ninja on the Moon

UK 2009
produced by
Nik Box, Mark Biggam for Dead Good Films Like Productions
directed by Nik Box
starring Alex Carley, Thomas Wright, Isobel McArthur, Jon Croft, Dan Fulf, Neil Anderson, Yasmin Holgeth, Nabeel Masih, Phil Barret, Stephen Andrews, Marc Biggam, & the voices of Bartoz Kruk, Ricky Daniels, Nik Box, Mark Connoly
written by Nik Box, Marc Biggam, music by Hacksaw, Hospital of Death, FCG, Detox, special effects by James Lightfoot, Nik Box

Dracula

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Years before the first manned moon mission in 1969, the martini-crazy British agent and ninja Doug (Thomas Wright) is sent to the moon to kill Dracula (Alex Carley), who has been exiled to the moon more than 60 years ago by Van Helsing, and has since eaten up the entire lunar population.

Before Doug can take off though, he has to take special training from ninjamaster Chappy Santo (Dan Fulf), who out of the blue is then killed by Dracula's agent on earth Shelly Shellerton (Yasmin holgeth), who's then killed by Doug. But even Doug's own maid Richard (Isobel McArthur) eventually turns out to be one of Dracula's agents, and she has to be staked by Richard's partner (Jon Croft), who controls his lunar mission from earth.

On the moon, Doug manages to stake Dracula - but not before Dracula has bitten and turned him ...

An hommage to/parody of bad moviemaking from the likes of Ed Wood and Godfrey Ho - and this is the film's main problem: Obviously, the filmmakers have seen many a bad movie and understood their failures, but at the end of the day it seems like just an excuse for not really trying to do better themselves. In other word, Dracula vs the Ninja on the Moon's intentional badness seems to cover up for the filmmakers own laziness, and thus, instead of adding something to the badness of the films of their peers, they take the easy way out and recreate the badness (and cheapness) of the movies of old.

Now sure, this film still has at least some scenes to make bad movie enthusiasts chuckle, but in all it's just a missed opportunity, a film that could have resulted in something good with a little effort at least.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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