Transylmania (2009)

Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realise that if the partying doesn't kill them, the vampires just might!

Directors:

David Hillenbrand, Scott Hillenbrand

Writers:

Pat Casey (as Patrick Casey), Josh Miller (as Worm Miller)

Stars:

Patrick Cavanaugh, James DeBello, Tony Denman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Oren Skoog	...	Rusty / Radu
Josh Miller	...	Brady (as Joshua 'Worm' Miller)
Pat Casey	...	Mike (as Patrick Casey)
Jennifer Lyons	...	Lynne
Tony Denman	...	Newmar
Patrick Cavanaugh	...	Pete
Paul Hansen Kim	...	Wang
David Steinberg	...	Dean Floca (as David J. Steinberg)
Natalie Garza	...	Lia
Nicole Garza	...	Danni
Musetta Vander	...	Teodora Van Sloan
James DeBello	...	Cliff
Irena Violette	...	Draguta Floca (as Irena A. Hoffman)
Claudiu Trandafir	...	Van Sloan
Radu Andrei Daniel	...	Edward Van Sloan

Storyline

Moronic American student Rusty arranges a student exchange program for his closest friends and him to study in Romania for six months and meet his Internet girlfriend Draguta. He travels with potheads Pete and Wang, Pete's girlfriend Lia and her twin sister Danni, the naive and romantic Newmar and his dippy girlfriend Lynne, the nerd Brady and his sexually confused roommate Mike, and crook Cliff. His friends actually intend to party. While traveling by train to Razvan they learn that five hundred years ago the vampire Radu lost his beloved Stephania, whose spirit was trapped in a music box. Ever since, Radu has kept Stephania's body while seeking the music box to bring her back. One of Radu's minions has recently retrieved the music box but, mortally wounded by the vampire slayer Teodora Van Sloan, drops the object in a gypsy's basket. Newmar unwittingly buys the music box and gives it to Lynne, who opens it and is possessed by Stephania. When all arrive at the university, they are ...

---

Plot Keywords:

dark humor | cringe comedy | psychotronic film | 16th century | 2000s | 

---

Taglines:

College kids. The other white meat.

---

Genres:

Comedy | Horror

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence

Did You Know?

Trivia

The only actors to appear in all three films of the Dorm Daze trilogy are: James DeBello (Cliff), Tony Denman (Newmar), Jennifer Lyons (Lynne), Patrick Cavanaugh (Pete), Paul Hansen Kim (Wang), Pat Casey (Mike) and Josh Miller (Brady).

---

Goofs

When Danni, Pete and Wang find out Lia's head has been removed from her body, the headless body is lying on its front. When they are unknowingly undoing the thread, the headless body lies on its back. Nobody moved the headless body.

---

Quotes

Rusty: Here, look. Got something for ya. The Codex Eroticon. A classic. Written like 1000 years ago. Makes the Kama Sutra look like Martha Stewart's prison notes. Ooh! You know what else I got? It's erotic comic books that I've been working on in conjunction with my memoirs.
Newmar: [reading the cover] "Uncensored and raw?"
Rusty: [reconsidering] You know what? The book'll do ya.
Newmar: I don't know about this.
Rusty: TAKE the Codex Eroticon, please! There's a legend that surrounds this hallowed tome, Newmar. They say that the moves ...
[...]

---

Connections

Spoofs Cops (1989)

---

Soundtracks

Bad To The Bone
Written by George Thorogood
Performed by George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under License from EMI Film & Televsion Music

User Reviews

Another embarrassing horror spoof.

All through my viewing of "Transylmania", I kept picking my brain where I knew the names of David and Scott Hillenbrand from. I knew it had to be horror-related, but seriously couldn't place them. Afterwards, upon checking here on this website, it finally made sense! They are the genius minds behind "King Cobra" and "Demon Island". Now, both those movies really sucked but at least they were serious intended horror attempts, whereas "Transylmania" is a spoof of the genre. Not only have we been saying way too many horror spoofs coming out in the last couple years, but there also aren't any valid excuses in case a spoof is embarrassingly bad. The good news is that "Transylmania" definitely isn't any worse than "Stan Helsing" or "Scary Movie 4". The bad news is that it sucks nevertheless and hardly contains any juvenile and sexist gags you haven't seen approximately three dozen of times before. As part of a student exchange program, a bunch of idiotic college kids travel to Romania for one semester. One of them is anxious to finally meet his sexy Romanian internet girlfriend while the other just intend to party hard and score with the easy local beauties. Rusty's romantic plans backfire as it turns out the lovely Draguta has a hideous hunchback and a psychopathic midget father and the rest of group runs into trouble with ancient vampire curses and bodily possessions. I chuckled perhaps a total of four or five times throughout, but the rest of the film was derivative and infantile. The acting performances are all neutral, with the exception of the late David Steinberg as the crazy dean with a dungeon full of torture devices, and the Hillendbrand clearly know as little about comical horror as they do about cheesy horror.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 December 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dorm Daze 3

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$263,941, 6 December 2009

Gross USA:

$397,641

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$408,229

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film Rock, Hill & Brand Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 97 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby SR Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1