Darkstalkers is a 2006 action-horror film directed by Uwe Boll, and based on the game series of the same name.The film follows Donovan Baine, a member of a Creature-Hunter Organization known as the World Hunter Federation, or WHF. One day, he gets a report of a powerful vampire known as Demitri Maximov, his vampire sidekick Morrigain Aensland, and their army of zombie-like "Vampire Spawn". He then teams up with his girlfriend Felicia, and young woman named Bonnibelle, and later joins forces with a Werewolf named Jon Talbain and a Mad Scientist named Dr. Victor von Gerhardt.
In reality, this film is made up, and simply done to parody Uwe's Signature Style of In Name Only video game adaptations, and In Name Only video game movies as a whole.
Tropes that appear in Uwe Boll's Darkstalkers:
- Adaptational Mundanity: In the film, Donavan and Felicia are regular humans instead of a Dhampyr and a Cat Girl, respectively.
- Adaptation Name Change: "Victor Von Gerdenheim" becomes "Victor Von Gerhardt", a real German surname. Uwe Boll is German, after all.
- Adaptation Species Change: Morrigain is a vampire instead of a succubus.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the games, Demitri and Morrigain were anti-heroes. in this, they're the Big Bad and The Dragon, respectiveley.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Felicia and Morrigain go from blue and green to blonde and black-haired, respectively. Demitri's hair also becomes black.
- Adapted Out: Very few of the series' many, many characters show up, including fan favorites such as Hsien-Ko and Lord Raptor. Perhaps the strangest way this affected the movie is the case of Victor, who is not present, but his creator and namesake is. Donovan's child partner Anita is also nowhere to be found.
- Always Night: All of the movies scenes are shot in the dark. Perhaps the filmmakers took the series title too literally?
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: It's not a comic movie, but it's still played fairly strait, as Bonnibelle is never referred to as "Baby Bonnie Hood", "BB Hood", or "Bulleta".
- Darker and Edgier: The movie lacks the bright colors and comical tone that the games had.
- Dominatrix: Invoked with Morrigain, who has a leather catsuit and a whip.
- Fur Against Fang: Jon Talbain mentions that one of the reasons he's fighting the Demitri, Morrigian, and their Mooks is because, as a werewolf, he has a natural hatred towards vampires.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Morrigain wears a full-body leather catsuit.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Bonnibelle falls headfirst into this problem, and it's implied that Donovan develops shades of this as well.
- In Name Only: As expected for Uwe Boll films, and pre-2010s video game movies in general, this film has little to nothing to do with the games.
- Mad Scientist: Dr. Gerhardt, though he's with the good guys.
- Masquerade: In the film's world, monsters are hidden from the public and the WHF are hired to deal with them in secret before they harm civilians or reveal themselves.
- Ms. Fanservice: Felicia and Morrigain are this, which is one of the only things in this movie that's true to the source material.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Demitri and Morrigain are vampires who are weak to silver and command an army of zombie-like "Vampire Spawn".
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Jon Talbain, who can transform at will.
- Promoted to Love Interest: Felicia is now Donovan's love interest, despite them having no romantic interest in each other in the original.
- Silver Bullet: Used for hunting Vampires, since they're weak to them.
- Sociopathic Hero Bonnibelle develops shades of this before outright becoming a villain.
- Spell My Name With An S: Morrigan's name in promotional material and the subtitles is spelled as "Morrigain." Strangely, her name is always pronounced like it would normally would instead of "Morri-gain" like one would believe.
- Spy Catsuit: Felicia wears one (Hee hee!). Morrigain would be an example too, if she was remoteley spy-like.
