I was lucky enough to catch this film at a screening in Los Angeles and enjoyed it immensely. What I liked most was the way the film blends all the classic elements in a traditional vampire film, but remains unique in its approach. Rather than relying on blood and gore, it portrays Vlad the Impaler as more than a monster. We’re shown glimpses of his past and quickly empathize with his pain, even as we’re terrified by his brutality.
The love stories woven into the film and the pace at which it’s told keep you emotionally invested and on the edge of your seat. The tone and feel of romance, aided by the beautiful backdrop of the Carpathian mountains, is undeniable and moving.
The film carefully balances love and anguish while merging past and present worlds. Even though it’s set in modern day, the film shows how we as people face the same struggles throughout our history. Vlad is incredibly well thought out and acted, and should be enjoyable to a wide range of people. The nudity and violence in the film is done with taste and purpose and I’d recommend this film to anyone that wants a romantic saga about one of the world’s most notorious monsters.
Vlad the Impaler, born 1432, died 1462, was not the beast many people make him out to be today. He was a noble, wise, caring ruler. He cared about his people. Sure, against the Turks he was a savage, but they were trying to invade, so that is logical. And yes, he did impale some of his own people, but they were just trying to commit treason or the like. He didn't drink blood from chalices and turn into a bat at night and fly around. I for one think Vlad Tepes was a far greater man than anyone makes him out to be.
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drakul meant dragon too, because Vlad's father was a knight of the Order of the Dragon, i believe (correct me if i'm wrong). btw, i havent seen this film yet. i dont really know where to get it, but i'm gonna try ebay. is it worth buying it, or should i try to rent it first?
I kinda agree with what you are saying, but the dialogue killed it. The actions the characters took were within reason, but their verbal explanations were positively laughable. I mean, no one talks like that...it was painfully obvious they were reading lines.
I mean, is it that hard to write dialogue people? The material wasnt that bad to work with, so why didnt they get someone at least partially competant to write these peoples lines...heck I could have written better dialogue sitting on the can.
i didnt find the dialog that bad, although it wasnt great. Yes he was part of the Order of the Dragon (an order created by some Hungarian price (coorect me if i am wrong) whose name i forget, the order was created to protect Christianity against the Ottoman, tatars and others. I think he was portrayed much better in this movie than in all others, except it still could have been better (not by much though). He was a hero, not a blo*dy blood thirsty vampire
All I am going to say is maybe you should all buy and read In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu, and Raymond T. McNally, until then try not to state facts about Vlad.
the hell's wrong with u? u even have a romanian name, an order created by a hungarian prince? loooool. nice to see romanian's knowing their history....the order was ROMANIAN!!!
***SPOILERS*** In the first moments of the movie I thought: "Well, it starts well, shows something not shown in other movies!" I refer to the sequence where the father and Mircea, the eldest brother of Vlad were having a gruesome end!
But from this moment on, the touch with the reality is absent.
First of all, Vlad Tepes' father, Vlad Basarab, was known as Vlad Dracul not because he was part of a secret organization, as it was suggested in the movie, but for the following reason: He received from the emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg the highest Order that was given to a knight in those troubled days - higher than The Teutons' Order, The Order of the Maltese Knights or The Order of the Knights from Rhodos. That was The Dragon's Order. In Romanian, Dracul means The Devil. And from Dragon to Devil was only a small step.
Than, Vlad and his brother, Radu The Handsome, weren't even there when their relatives died. They were forced guests at the Sublime Porte as a pledge that their father wouldn't have risen again against the Turks.
Another weird thing in this movie is that misinterprets an old Romanian tradition. When a young girl dies at the age of marriage, she is buried dressed in a wedding dress, as a sign of her purity. She is not wedded with her fiancé, as Linsey says in the movie. But I guess, the one who wrote the script was after the sensational, at any costs.
And what was that blur with the rambling English lass and the wanna-be knight, Justin?!
Vlad Tepes (now known as Draculea or Dracula) has punished very harsh the thieves, liars and the enemies. And that scared people as hell. Yes, he was harsh even for those days. But efficient!!! While he ruled the country nobody dared to still something!!! LOL! That's why in my country HE is a national HERO!!!!
And the verses recited in the movie (wroted By Mihai Eminescu) shows it very clear: "Why aren't you coming back, our Lord Tzepesh, to seize them,/To divide them in two packs : in in-sanes and crooks/And by force hoard them up in two large prison houses/And set the jail and the cuckoos house ablaze.
So, in conclusion, if you want to see a movie about vampires that doesn't scare not even a cat, well... you might watch this one. But if you would like to see a REAL movie about Vlad Tepes, I suggest Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula (1979).
Danelush, I was on set during the making of the movie. The day that we shot the wedding scene it was actually going on. The locals of the village told us why they do what they do. They can't bury a woman that age anymore alive; its against the law. So now they marry her instead.
He has made NO other contributions other than starting this thread (note how he doesn't respond to anyone - his job's done and he's gone) and his absurd Earl Dittman style review. (Dittman being the King Whore of the Movie-Poster-Quotes racket - see the Hollywood Bitchslap site which chronicles the damage done).
Its SO obvious he's a PR FAKE. This post and his review (currently the feaured one!) are entirely within the house style: their usual way to perpetuate the ongoing rape of these boards being to invent a likely-sounding account and then have that poster totally wank themselves into ecstasy over some steaming heap of movie fail .
One might have thought that studio publicity would insist the hired PR take a little more care to not make their fakes and meatpuppets and whores sound so pathetic. But with a movie that reaches the levels of fail that Vlad does, i guess they just didn't care.
Probably a waste of time but I've reported Vlad-fan TedKnight47 for being suspected advertising (single-purpose-account see post above).
The reason I've bothered is the fact that his absurdly OTT Comment on this movie is currently the Featured one on the 1st page. That has GOT to GO.
Its bad enough that the PR industry in Hollywood resort to the regular tricks (like pulling pieces of phrases out of negative reviews that end up sounding positive) but when it looks like they are gaming user sites and message boards...that has got to stop.
The best you can do is flag the review as not useful in the hope that it'll sink off the first page. IMDb is filled with these fake reviews; I wonder if they care.
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