History YMMV / BloodRayne

** ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'': [[BigBad Kagan]] is Rayne's [[IHateYouVampireDad father]]. A powerful VampireMonarch, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampir}} race and creates his own by [[SerialRapist raping]] human women to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan, except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters her services are no longer required before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

* DemonicSpiders: Ephemera's sword-wielding female mooks. They can electrify their swords for extra damage, and also causing attempts to harpoon them just damage ''you''. You can't feed on them from the front because they'll block you, throw you to the ground, and smack you. Even ''without'' electrifying their swords they hit like a truck. The best way to attack them is to get behind them, but they're also fast enough to make ''that'' a tall order.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Butcheress from the First game is one of the most popular characters, to the point they brought her back as the antagonist in A comic.

* 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 its health down to half.

* FightSceneFailure

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

* SpecialEffectFailure: As the Spoony One put in, the gore effects are so bad it's barely even worth the R rating.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/MichaelMadsen?! Creator/MichelleRodriguez?! Creator/BillyZane?! Music/{{Meatloaf}}?! ''Creator/BenKingsley?!'' OK, Ben did it out of AwesomeDearBoy, but still!
** And that's just the ''first'' film.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The lesbian and truck sex scenes in The Third Reich are well, pretty damn memorable. Mostly because both come out of nowhere.

*** [[BigBad Jurgen Wulf]] was a German UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war criminal fascinated with the occult. Becoming the leader of the [[{{Ghostapo}} Gegengeist Gruppe]], Wulf uses his position to seek out the parts of Beliar, the first devil to ascend to self-proclaimed godhood. He introduces himself having summoned the Queen of the Underworld and her offspring to infect and wipe out a whole town to get Beliar's rib. Later, when he discovers Rayne's friend Mynce was a DoubleAgent, he ribs Mynce's heart out in front of Rayne. Returning in the comics, it's discovered decades later that Wulf was resurrected from Hell by what he calls "Saviours", ancient beings that far predate the universe, and denounces his past as a Nazi in their favor. Wulf takes over Red Blood Run, a HumanTrafficking operation that abducted thousands of innocent people to forcibly experiment on them and turn them into vampires. This was part of a greater conspiracy in which Wulf infiltrates Brimstone with his "Saviours" in a plot to usurp God and sell out humanity as his masters subjugate all creation.

** ''[=BloodRayne=] 2'': [[BigBad Kagan]] is Rayne's [[IHateYouVampireDad father]]. A powerful VampireMonarch, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampyr}} race and creates his own by [[SerialRapist raping]] human women to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan, except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters her services are no longer required before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

* CompleteMonster: Kagan is the heroine Rayne's ArchnemesisDad and the BigBad of the second game. A powerful vampire lord, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampir}} race and creates his own by [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping human women]] to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man [[TakingYouWithMe used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan]], except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters [[YouHaveFailedMe her services are no longer required]] before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

* HilariousInHindsight: The rail-grinding sections in the 2nd game are clearly based on those from the Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog games, except for the parts where you can use guns or blades against enemies while grinding. The Sonic games wouldn't see anything like that until [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog the following year]].

** Use your SuperReflexes to get behind specially-uniformed officers (who otherwise resist frontal bite attempts). Then [[LifeDrain suck them dry]].

* GameBreaker: The first game's implementation of the Blood Rage mechanic makes Rayne virtually unstoppable. Time slows down, Rayne speeds up, and she inflicts so much damage in such a short amount of time that almost any non-boss enemy will be instantly killed or maimed, and most bosses will have their health drained very quickly. The Bloodlust gauge is also refilled by any melee attack, making it easy to replenish.

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Kagan]], much like his video game counterpart, is a powerful [[VampireMonarch 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.

** There's also [[Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance Billy the Kid]]. See that page for more details.

* {{NarmCharm}}: 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.

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

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

* {{Sequelitis}}: Not that the first movie really was that well-received, but the sequels were considered even ''worse.''
* SpecialEffectFailure: As the Spoony One put in, the gore effects are so bad it's barely even worth the R rating.

* LoveItOrHateIt: How ''Betrayal'' seems to have been received. Some fans hate it for being so different from its predecessors, others love it for being a competent 2D action game with gorgeous art and a great soundtrack.

* HilariousInHindsight: This won't be the last time Matt Davis [[TheVampireDiaries fights vampires]].

* CompleteMonster: Kagan is the heroine Rayne's ArchnemesisDad and the BigBad of the second game. A powerful vampire lord, Kagan has a fascination with the {{Dhampir}} race and creates his own by raping human women to produce offspring before eventually killing every member of their maternal family and everything they care about, leaving them with nobody but Kagan himself to rely on. Kagan ended up working with the Nazis to further his own goals and killed Rayne's mentor and friend, torturing him by strangling him with his own intestines before the man [[TakingYouWithMe used a grenade to destroy himself with Kagan]], except Kagan had survived. Kagan uses a plan to blot out the sun and leave a vampire kingdom for himself and his kind, to rule as a king. Kagan displays no care for any other being, coldly informing one of his daughters [[YouHaveFailedMe her services are no longer required]] before having her thrown into a miles-long drop, and later mocks Rayne by declaring she's scarce worth the "effort I took to create it."

* NightmareFuel: Daemite and the host body.

* LoveItOrHateIt: How ''Betrayal'' seems to have been received.