| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kristanna Loken | ... | Rayne | |
| Michael Madsen | ... | Vladimir | |
| Matthew Davis | ... | Sebastian (as Matt Davis) | |
| Will Sanderson | ... | Domastir | |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Fortune Teller | |
| Udo Kier | ... | Regal Monk | |
| Meat Loaf | ... | Leonid (as Meat Loaf Aday) | |
| Michael Paré | ... | Iancu | |
| Billy Zane | ... | Elrich | |
| Michelle Rodriguez | ... | Katarin | |
| Ben Kingsley | ... | Kagan | |
| Darren Shahlavi | ... | Priest | |
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Esteban Cueto | ... | Rok |
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Madalina Constantin | ... | Amanda |
| Daniela Nane | ... | Rayne's Mother | |
In the Eighteenth Century, Rayne is the half-human half-vampire Dhampir and the lead attraction in a carnival's freak-show in Romania. When she escapes, she meets a fortuneteller that tells that her mother was raped by the king of the vampires Kagan and she decides to destroy her father. In her journey for revenge, she meets Vladimir and Sebastian, the leaders of the fortress of vampire hunters Brimstone, and she joins their society. She seeks for powerful talismans to defeat Kagan, while the skilled warriors Vladimir and Sebastian train her to face the forces of Kagan and her human side falls in love with Sebastian. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I've never seen the computer game on which this movie is based, so the reported discrepancies between the film's storyline and the game's original mythos (which fans of the game have been very vocal about) didn't bother me, and instead I just viewed the movie as a separate entity. While I can't honestly say that Bloodrayne is anything special, it's certainly not the complete disaster that it's supposed to be. There's no denying that several of the main actors are woefully miscast - Michael Madsen being the prime example - and there are some bizarre and distracting cameos from Michael Pare (whom I swear hasn't aged a day in the twenty five years since Streets of Fire), Billy Zane and Meat Loaf. But I still found Bloodrayne to be considerably more entertaining than Van Helsing (2004), the film it most resembles. In fact it's only slightly inferior to the similarly themed Underworld movies.