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:

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)
Patrick Casey	...	Mike
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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

music box | vampire | dungeon | twin | vampire slayer | 

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Taglines:

Euro-trashed! Euro-smashed! Euro-slashed!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

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

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

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), Patrick Casey (Mike) and Josh Miller (Brady).

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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.

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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 ...
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Connections

Spoofs Dr. 90210 (2004)

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Soundtracks

The Way you Look
Written by Ali Dee (as Ali Theodore), Julian Davis (as Julian Michael Davis) and Joey Katsaros (as Joseph Katsaros)
Performed by Chris Classic
Courtesy of DeeTown Entertainment

User Reviews

A Castle in the Shy

Transylmania can be considered the third movie in the National Lampoon's Dorm Daze series. Though it's loosely based off of them, it can be pretty much defined as a third sequel, and doesn't need much knowledge of the first two movies for this one to be seen. Seems like no one in this movie has any knowledge at all. I was lucky enough to speak to directors David and Scott Hillenbrand via the Transylmania fan-page on Facebook. As well as seeing exclusive interviews from the cast.

The movie seems like another goofy spin off of the neverending American Pie Presents franchise. Though this accomplishes more than any of those movies have. But when compared to the original three American Pies, it doesn't stand much of a chance. It attempts to be an 80s throwback, which it does feel like a little bit, but not a perfect one.

Rusty (Oren Skoog) has been dating an online overseas girl for a while and feels he needs to see her in person. When asked to fly over to Romania to get in touch. He feels that maybe he could get accepted to The Razvan University where she goes to school. They embark on a cross country journey to see her. The Razvan University has a bad history to it. A music box, when opened, posses your soul into a demon vampire. When open, the demon takes over your body. When ceased, or closed, your normal.

Little does the gang know, duplicates of themselves, usually with deeper voices, are being produced as well. So the gang must find the fake impersonators, and banish them. Sounds like an uncut episode of Scooby Doo.

Though the thing that caught me surprised me was that this is intended to be a spoof movie. And it's actually decent. This one doesn't have random pop culture references popping here and there and at random times. It doesn't have convoluted performances and bad acting. This didn't try to fit every God-forsaking blockbuster into their movie. I thought this might be the "new age" parody film that would start a revolution of the same kind of parody flicks in the style of The Naked Gun, and Airplane, or the absolute classic 70s and 80s style parodies we were waiting for for years.

We would finally cease from all the mindless crap Hollywood puts out. No more Jason Friedberg or Aaron Seltzer. No more brain dead first timers forcing us to laugh at corny one liners. The world will finally be at rest from the likes of pointless parodies. That is...until I saw the trailer for The 41-Year-Old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.