Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
| 31 October 2000 (USA)
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Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.

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AniInterview

Sorry, this movie sucks

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Donald Seymour

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Armand

Interesting, subtle and nice. New exploration of a old subject with the desire to present the truth about a Romanian hero.Good exercise of image and form of rehabilitation.A childish story, with delicate emotion and many clichés.Tale for West sensibility about a Prince Charming in the skin of vampire. And parts of real facts for a decent taste."Dark Prince" is interesting for good intentions of script, for the temptation to create another image of Dracula, for presence of Romanian good actors (Maia Morgenstern like example), for the historical atmosphere. The only problem is the respect for real facts. For a stranger the film may be a revelation. For a Romanian is a caricature. Names of fiction and of reality are mixed for create a flavor. The relation with Orthodox Church is simplificated with some shadows like in "Da Vinci Code". Vlad Tepes is a puppet of time and religion. And the end is last element of romantic puzzle.So, I don't know if it is a good film. The intention is generous but the result is mediocre. For many reasons it is a film " ad usum Delphini", good for a image about a character, fake for the image of a Romanian ruler.

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scobbah

Here's another take on the legend of Vlad III a.k.a. Vlad Dracula, prince of Romania during the late Fifteenth century. Luckily, this flick is not the regular vampire stuff, but an effort to partly cover Vlad's biography and partly to make another plot out of this infamous prince's actions in history. I must say that for being an adapted release aimed at television, this flick does pretty OK. Too often flicks which are aimed at television release only, become pretty poor due to low budgets in combination with wet director dreams. Here, they've somehow managed to pull all things pretty well together and it doesn't really feel as though it really is a super-B-flick.The actors' performance is generally OK, nothing that spoils it that is. For the plot and the development of it, those who are interested and have studied Vlad III might wrinkle their eyebrows a bit now and then, as the chronology skips a little now and then. All in all, it's an OK release and I'm happy to see a piece which is actually trying to cover more of the real Vlad III, compared to the more classic two-holes-in-the-neck vampire flicks which there are too many of already. 5/10 - an OK grade that is, you won't spoil your time completely and the flick is neat to kill some time with.

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aragorn_the_real_ranger

OMG it was one of the best movies I have seen. Well Pirates of the Caribbean is first then Dark Prince The True Story of Dracula is the second. I loved it. Rudolf Martin was great for the part. He show anger and love and hate very well. anyway I thought Dracula was known as a vampire but when i saw this movie it changed i don't know if this is the absolute true story but it was still a very good movie. I hope that i get to see it again i just saw it on TV today and i thought it was very good I'm also the type of person to believe in that kind of stuff i like myths and true stories and vampires and people who cant die i dig that kind of stuff. i guess I'm kinda crazy but over all I LOVED IT.

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Chris Gavez

I have always been fascinated by the history of Vlad Dracula, and am glad that someone finally decided to make a film of this fascinating man. Low budget or not, this film is a great interpretation of the history of the legend.Not your typical Dracula film, this film tells the story of the real Dracula, who inspired the story by Bram Stoker. It shows his birth, to his reign as prince of Romania, to his death. Some of the scenes are based on fact, others, I'm sure, were written just for the film. I have quite a few historical books about the man, and yes, the atrocities shown in this movie, were in fact done by the man.The film was filmed in Romania and Hungary, so that does add to the realism of the story. The film is low budget, but even so, the sword fights had excellent choreography, and the special effects were above par for the budget. The only drawback for me was the length. Only 90 minutes.All in all, this movie is worth a rental by both historical buffs, and horror fans. Hopefully someone will make a big screen version of this story one day. It sure does deserve one.

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