***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).
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).