10 Monster Movies The Mummy Needs To Improve Upon

Remember Virgin record stores? At one time, they were so desperate to launch themselves in America that they promoted themselves in Dracula 2000, a movie that proves what Hammer learned 3 decades earlier – bringing Dracula into the modern day is a really bad idea.

The shameless plugs aren’t limited to a few close-ups of its stores, though. Not only is the film’s heroine a shelf-stacking employee, which allows her to afford an aircraft hangar-sized apartment, but her name is Mary (as in “Virgin Mary”) and her roommate is played by Vitamin C, a singer signed to Virgin’s V2 label.

Best of all is the scene where Dracula (Gerard Butler) beholds a vision of Virgin employee Mary, so he visits her workplace and is entranced by a music video featuring S & M queens and bare-breasted dancers. He’s watching the Heads Explode promo for Monster Magnet, a band signed – you guessed it – to Virgin’s V2 label.