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a would be spinning in his grave if
got word of this raunchy comedy set
Na Transylvania castle turned college.
ember how the horses in “Young Franken-
Y would rear and whinny in panic when
heard the name “Bliicher”? Here they
tto the words “Razvan University” with
nce. That pretty much sums things up.
ising the same characters and actors as in
barely released, essentially straight-to-DVD
nal Lampoon’s Dorm Daze” (2003) and
hal Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2” (2006),
er-directors David and Scott Hillenbrand
w up in Dix Hills) and writer-actors
trick Casey and Joshua “Worm” Miller create a
ankenstein-like patchwork that borrows not
"only from the Mel Brooks classic but also from
he “Underworld” movies, “Hostel,” “The Brain
That Wouldn’t Die” and even vaudeville — that
last being a poorly played variation on the “mir-
Tor gag” made famous by Charlie Chaplin, the
far ee Lucille Ball and even Bugs Bunny,
pho all did it better...
Cater ae stly thro 3
this clumsy comedy isn’t a broad spoof like the
“Scary Movie” franchise, and is actually better for
"having a genuine story and not being just a string
of gags. On the plus side, Jennifer Lyons, in a dual
ole as a squeaky-voiced coed and a scary demon-
less, displays the same deft comic touch she’s
howninazillion TV shows, and James DeBello
nd co-writer Casey, as two of the college boys,
havean appealingly assured casualness.
' Otherwise, fangs but no fangs.
FULL CIRCLE RELEASING PHOTO
Even these vampish vampires can't sink their
teeth into the dead script of “Transylmania.”
PLOT Horny, partying American college
kids try to survive vampires and wacky
horror at a Transylvanian university.
CAST Oren Skoog, Jennifer Lyons,
Tony Denma
LENGTH 1:35
PLAYING AT Area theaters
| BOTTOM LINE Drive a stake through it.
At high speed.