Mary, a descendant of the prototypical vampire slayer, works at a Virgin megastore in New Orleans, and the gratuitous use of the city during Mardi Gras is the least of this movie's unoriginal sins.

One half-expects a sexually subversive, blood-soaked gay carnival. Instead, Simon makes the effete Dracula (Butler) suck on some abuse.

This is occasionally entertaining stuff, but deeply silly.

retains the Count’s mysterious powers – his ability to change form (wolves, bats), mesmerize victims, and summon fog and storms – as well as his weaknesses (silver, crosses), while seamlessly inventing a credible origin story for vampires using Biblical