You know, you need to watch the Vienna DVD. It's worth it for Serkan alone, even if you didn't end up liking anyone else. I've met maybe one person in my fandom years who didn't adore his Lucheni.

But the story on a whole is a tad too cheesy for me, I can't help it.

Hmm, but the thing is, Tanz der Vampire knows that the cheesy things in it are cheesy and deliberately makes fun of them. The story is deliberately built on clichés and intertextuality. I love it so much because (among other things) it manages to wonderfully balance between parody and seriousness so that it's totally hilarious at the same time as it has a serious side. I guess I have the right twisted sense of humour for it.