BloodRayne

Director Uwe Boll, who had earlier made House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, followed them with his third video game adaptation, BloodRayne, a German-American vampire action-fantasy film. It draws on the game series of the same name from Majesco and Terminal Reality, serving as a loose prequel to the first game. The screenplay is by Guinevere Turner.

The story is set in eighteenth-century Romania. Rayne (Kristanna Loken), from a circus troupe, tastes human blood while defending herself against a tormentor, and learns the truth: her mother was human and her father a vampire. In time she becomes a warrior who hunts vampires rather than people. Meeting two vampire hunters, she learns that the vampire king Kagan (Ben Kingsley), her own father, raped and killed her mother, and sets off to avenge her. Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane and Udo Kier also appear.

The world premiere took place on 23 October 2005 at the Austin Film Festival, followed by US release on 6 January 2006 and German release on 14 September 2006. On a budget of about $25 million it grossed $3.7 million worldwide and drew six Golden Raspberry nominations. Two sequels followed: BloodRayne 2: Deliverance (2007) and BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011), both direct-to-video and poorly received.