10 Movie Reveals That STOPPED You From Walking Out
5. Dracula Is Actually Judas - Dracula 2000
There's no two ways about it - Dracula 2000 is freakin' trash, a gothic horror film so aggressively influenced by turn-of-the-century Nu Metal and post-Matrix fashion choices that it almost graduates to self-parody.
But if you make it close to the end of the movie, there's one genuinely intriguing plot twist lying in wait. It's eventually revealed that Dracula's (Gerard Butler) real identity is Judas Iscariot, and he was cursed by God to live eternity as a vampire for betraying Jesus.
More to the point, the twist also explains Dracula's odd aversion to silver throughout the movie - it was part of the curse, due to Judas accepting 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus.
Again, Dracula 2000 isn't a good movie at all on the balance of probabilities, but suggesting that Judas was the original vampire is a genuinely creative and intriguing twist on traditional vampire lore, enough that it clearly belonged in a much, much better film.