History YMMV / BloodRayne

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelMadsen?! MichelleRodriguez?! Music/{{Meatloaf}}?! ''BenKingsley?!'' OK, Ben did it out of AwesomeDearBoy, but still!

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Kagan]], much like his video game counterpart, is a powerful vampire king and [[ArchnemesisDad Rayne's father]], [[ChildByRape having raped and murdered her mother]]. Taking advantages of a lawless land, Kagan has an army of vampires and humans at his disposal to wipe out the human race. Kagan seeks the eye, heart and rib of the ancient vampire Belial (Beliar in the first game) to further empower himself. When Rayne allies herself with the Brimstone society, Kagan sends his army to the Brimstone headquarters, killing hundreds of innocent people. When Kagan captures Rayne and discovers she empowered herself with Belial's pieces, he plans to ritually extract the pieces from her. In the final fight, he manages to kill the Brimstone leader, Vladimir, before facing Rayne in a final duel.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Not that the first movie really was that well-received, but the sequels were considered even worse.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelMadsen?! MichelleRodriguez?! Music/{{Meatloaf}}?! ''BenKingsley?!''

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelMadsen?! MichelleRodriguez?! ''BenKingsley?!''

* {{Narm}}: The Mooks in the final act of ''Blood Rayne 2'' (Kagan's Tower) talk like Jersey Shore rejects and have ridiculously silly dialogue, which can make them seem wildly out of place given the otherwise horror-filled setting.

* {{Narm)): The Mooks in the final act of ''Blood Rayne 2'' (Kagan's Tower) talk like Jersey Shore rejects and have ridiculously silly dialogue, which can make them seem wildly out of place given the otherwise horror-filled setting.

* CrazyAwesome: Betrayal's final boss is a giant demon that takes up half the screen. Which throws up devil horns during several of its attacks and starts headbanging when it uses its BeamSpam attack after you bring down its health some.

* {{Sequelitis}}

* WTHCastingAgency: MichaelMadsen?! MichelleRodriguez?! ''BenKingsley?!''

** And that's just the ''first'' film.

** Rayne and the Butcheress in the first game. Rayne and the doppelganger twins.
** Rayne and the minions. Some of their taunts are like this. The sounds Rayne makes while feeding on them are reminiscent of something else...

* ItsHardSoItSucks: Due to SurpriseDifficulty in ''Betrayal'', many complain about the game being a NintendoHard platformer.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Part of the fanbase's reaction to the ''[=BloodRayne=]: Betrayal'' gameplay trailer, due to {{Metroidvania}} design and the {{animesque}} style of it.

!! The game:

* GoodBadBugs: There's a cheat code in ''VideoGame/BloodRayne 2'' that opens up the game's debug menu. This allows you to do things like turn off the bump mapping or screw around with the graphics engine. If you're interested in game design at all, it's actually pretty neat.
* [[HoYay Les Yay]]

* LoveItOrHateIt: How Betrayal seems to have been recieved.
* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Bloodrayne'' was originally a spinoff of ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'', a Franchise/ResidentEvil-style third person survival horror game for the [=PC=].
* NightmareFuel: Daemite + host body.
* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler: The FinalBoss battle against Wulf and Beliar is also the hardest. Beliar [[BossArenaUrgency must be killed within a certain amount of time]], or he will [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grow too large to defeat]] and instantly kill Rayne via cutscene, and is immune to melee attacks. Wulf, meanwhile, is impervious to bullets, runs at super speed, and has a flame-based attack that can heavily damage Rayne. There are also no lesser enemies in this area to feed upon, meaning that Rayne cannot heal herself during the battle.]]
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Part of the fanbase's reaction to the Bloodrayne: Betrayal gameplay trailer, due to {{Metroidvania}} design and the {{animesque}}-ness of it.

!!The film

* LesYay: There's some in the first movie, between Rayne and some vampire chick she feasts upon.

* VideoGameMoviesSuck

* GoodBadBugs: There's a cheat code in ''BloodRayne 2'' that opens up the game's debug menu. This allows you to do things like turn off the bump mapping or screw around with the graphics engine. If you're interested in game design at all, it's actually pretty neat.

* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Bloodrayne'' was originally a spinoff of ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'', a ResidentEvil-style third person survival horror game for the [=PC=].

* VideoGameMoviesSuck

* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Bloodrayne'' was originally a spinoff of ''{{Nocturne}}'', a ResidentEvil-style third person survival horror game for the [=PC=].

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: News of a another attempt to make a portable BloodRayne game came out during the summer, this time on the 3DS.

** The FinalBossChamber in the sequel contains [[BloodBath a fountain filled with blood]] which can replenish both Rayne's health and blood meters when the player stands in it. Standing in the pool and using Rayne's [[TimeStandsStill time stopping ability]] makes this the easiest fight in the game.