Dracula: La Véritable Histoire des Vampires

The only problem I had with this movie was the excessive and exaggerated use of the "shaky-cam". This can be an effective took, if used subtly. That was not the case in Dark Prince. I found it very annoying at times and once, it became down-right painful to watch. The good news is that its not always that bad. I enjoyed it and would recommend it for good acting, compelling story line, very good battle scenes, great sets and location shots, and captivating subject matter for those who want intelligent Halloween entertainment.

Good try at a Bio of Vlad Tepes but too many historical mistakes of his life. Filmed in Sighisoara Vlad's actual birthplace but they mention that he was born somewhere else. You can actual see the building he was born in, Sighisoara is a beautiful medieval town so filming there was a great idea. Though alot of mistakes were made it was still a good story and a well done film.

This is a very loosely biographical based movie on Vlad Dracula, and it was a very refreshing change.

Roger Daltrey is the weakest actor, and he is pretty good.

Rudolf Martin was perfect for the role of Dracula, what a mix of passion, and vanity.

The story is fact based and if you know your history you can see it weaved though-out this tale. The sets are amazing for a fairly low budget movie.The fight scenes are fair to slightly above average, but this movie is so strongly written you can forgive the weaker fight scenes.

One of the Best Dracula movies I have seen, and by far the best low budget historical(ish) Vlad movie I have seen.

It's hard to know how to rate this odd little movie. On one hand, it's dreadful trash that affects to explore the Dracula Mythos while in fact exploiting it at every turn.

On the other hand, this is one of the very few, English-language productions* that addresses the fact that for three centuries, Europe was under attack by an aggressive, expansionist muslim empire. While Western Europe was enjoying the Renaissance, the (mostly) Eastern Orthodox peoples of the Balkans were fighting for their lives against the massive armies of the Ottoman Sultanate. It was their blood and pain that made the Renaissance possible.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox. As for the "Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula", I'll go with the majority and rate it a '6'.

* The only other one I can think of offhand is the much higher-budget "Dracula Untold" (2014).

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.