Dracula is the king of the vampires, a group that has a wide and varied group.  These guys have existed for hundreds of years, conquered parts of the world and even gone into space.  Hell, they've been in space for nearly fifty years, going back to Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires in 1964.  Throughout the years, these guys have been known to display random powers with no rhyme or reason.  I have already done a Top 12 List on this subject, so many more of them have been found since.  You know what that means, right?  Read and enjoy...

12. Night Hunter: Don "The Dragon" Wilson is a name synonymous with bad movies from the 1990s.  Guess what- this is one of them!  Don is a vampire hunter who protects a woman from the bloodsuckers.  These guys violate so many rules of vampire canon (see the list of Top 12 Weirdest Vampire Rules), but also have a weird power that I neglected to mention.  Basically, these guys have super-speed, as represented by a cheap shaky cam effect.  Lame!

11. Doctor Dracula: This Al Adamson movie is a given for this list, even if it was re-cut to include Dracula.  The film's sub-plot involves Dracula killing random people because, well, he wants to.  He chases one woman from her car to the woods.  She runs off for a few minutes and stops to breath.  Naturally, he is sitting in the tree above her, despite not being shown the whole time.  Oh good, you have Jason's teleportation powers.  Why the hell not?!?

10. The Killer Barbys vs. Dracula: Jesus Franco is another name who just sort of has to show up here.  Basically, the titular band does practice for a show in a town where Dracula is buried and he rises up.  This Count has two odd powers of note.  First, he can survive in the sunlight with no problems.  In fact, in later shots he has a pretty serious tan lines on his head, which contrasts with his make-up.  Second, he apparently can multiply himself.  In a scene where he attacks a reporter, the Count has two other versions of himself.  How?  Why?  Naturally, they don't explain this or have it happen again.  Ugh.

9. Dracula 2000: I've already talked about this movie once, but something else bears repeating.  Dracula comes to New Orleans to find the reincarnation of his lost love (I think).  Naturally, the guy is the daughter of Van Helsing.  He attacks her roommate (Lucy) and turns her into one of his brides, alongside a lady reporter and another woman.  In the house, the women show their odd vampire powers: walking on the ceiling.  When did vampires turn int Spider-Man?  Before you say anything, I'm fairly sure that there is a Dracula/Spider-Man crossover.  Thanks in advance.

8. Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires: Hammer and Shaw Brothers brings you a tale of Dracula playing around in China.  The film revolves around The Count going to China to summon a septuplet of Chinese vampire siblings.  For most of the film, Dracula (not Christopher Lee) is in the guise of a Chinese priest.  Add shape-changing into another race as part of his powers, I guess.  Good for you, guys.

7. Nick Knight: This obscure little film served as the back-door pilot for Forever Knight.  The film tells the tale of a vampire cop who must stop a rash of 'vampire murders.'  Could it be related to the vampire from the man's past that turned him?  These vampires have an odd form of a power that is * occasionally* in mythos: they can fly.  They don't float or hover- they fly.  This film, however, can't actually show that, since it was made in 1989 on a TV budget.  I hope you like ten minutes of helicopter footage subbing for special effects, folks.

6. Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest: This direct-to-video film felt that Dracula should be a 300-lb Jedi.  While it alleges to be based on the lost Stoker tale, it's actually a film in the vein of Gothic or The Asylum's Sherlock Holmes.  Andrew Bryniarski- aka Leatherface from the 2003 TCM remake- is Dracula, who kidnaps Stoker's beau for his own.  When Bram's friend tries to help, Dracula uses...the force, apparently, to choke the guy in mid-air and float him.  No, really.  Why did you cast a giant guy in the lead if he's going to use magic powers again?

5. Dracula vs. Frankenstein: This other Al Adamson film (the last one- I swear) features Dracula using something odd.  The evil Dracula runs around the beach-front part of Los Angeles killing people.  To do this, he uses a magic ring on his hand that fires laser.  Sure- why not?!?  While this movie is a stinker, the DVD attempts to build up some mystique by saying that the prop ring vanished after production.  Why do I care?

4. Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse: Hey look, a film from The Asylum!  This movie features a group of vampire hunters teaming up with the remaining vampire lords to stop the rise of Elizabeth Bathorly.  Yes, they spell it that way.  This Countess is special because she's one of the few people actually turned by Dracula.  We're just going to ignore the other works, huh?  Anyways, the lady finally reveals herself and she has...force powers too?  Her powers consist of telekinesis and what is basically force lightning.  Wow, that came out of nowhere.  It's still nothing compared to...

3. Die Hard Dracula: This 2002 comedy is just there to mock us for liking continuity.  This Dracula begins his work by flying his coffin to a new castle and starting a mini-harem of ladies.  On top of that, a young man loses his girlfriend, but she gets reincarnated when he wishes upon a star.  After teaming up with Van Helsing, they battle the Count, who can shoot lighting, throw fireballs, re-set his decapitated head, fly and survive explosions.  Who needs logic in films?

2. Metamorphosis: The French are here to confuse the hell out of us.  This film involves a group of young people going to Transylvania to investigate the legend of Elizabeth Bathory.  Yes, again.  After they survive a car crash, they end up at a castle inhabited by a vampire Christopher Lamber.  Our hero eventually escapes into a circle of light...only to learn that he was in Limbo.  The female vampire, you see, had gone into Limbo and brought him back.  How does she do this?  It's because she is the living dead.  Yes, that hurts my brain too.

1. Dracula Rising: Roger Corman makes a film with a budget that balloons on the back end.  As I spoke about the film recently, a plot synopsis would be kind of silly.  Basically, Vlad is slowly corrupted by his companion after the death of his lady love due to overzealous Christians.  When she gets reincarnated, a battle for her takes place between the two.  The pair battle in...um, another dimension & shoot fireballs and lightning at each other.  They get bonus points for using the prison orbs from Superman II here as well.  Seriously, what the hell?!?

For more crap like this, go to Mondo Bizarro's homepage.  It can shoot lightning too- it just doesn't feel like it.

Next up, we start off with a fresh month and fresh material.  First on the agenda, a look at the worst films from The Asylum...that I've seen.  Stay tuned...