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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)

10/31/2000 TV Movie, Horror 1h 32m
61%
User
Score
6.0/10
20%

Overview

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.

Joe Chappelle

Director

Thomas Baum

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Rudolf Martin

Rudolf Martin

Vlad

Jane March

Jane March

Lidia

Christopher Brand

Christopher Brand

Bruno

Peter Weller

Peter Weller

Father Stefan

Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey

King Janos

Michael Sutton

Michael Sutton

Radu

Răzvan Vasilescu

Răzvan Vasilescu

Aron

Radu Amzulescu

Radu Amzulescu

Inquisitor

Maia Morgenstern

Maia Morgenstern

Woman at Fountain

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on August 28, 2023

I was drawn to this film by a trailer in which I could swear that I saw Roger Daltrey (from "The Who") and indeed, sparingly, here he is as "Janos", the King who decides to empower "Vlad Tepes" (Rudolf Martin) to fight against the Ottoman empire and to free his Romanian nation from their occupying yoke. This film makes no reference at all to any of the more traditional vampiric myth. It's basically just a low-budget history of a princely freedom-fighter who galvanises his people to resist their oppressive overlords. There are plenty of bloody battle scenes, a fair amount of impaling and generally the story processes well and quite excitingly with a decent degree of production values. The acting and the writing, however, are really poor with a stilted dialogue clunkily delivered by a lacklu...

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