Dracula Untold is the fictional tale of real life ruler Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, ruler of then Transylvania which is now modern day Romania!! Vlad was such a sadistic ruler that when enemies came to his territory & were defeated he & his army would impale them on high spikes as a warning to other kingdoms to think twice before they attacked the Transylvanians and it was talked about that he would even drink their blood!! Where this movie dips from reality & an actual re-telling of historical Vlad's life is when screenplay writers Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless immediately merge the real life man with writer Bram Stoker's fictional character Dracula that he invented based on the terrifying historical figure for his book Dracula centuries later that came about in the film after Vlad visited the dark Vampire in the mountain during the movie!! Nevertheless Dracula Untold is a very good story. Starring Luke Evans as Vlad & Sarah Gadon as his wife Mirena, Dracula Untold tells the story of how Vlad both saved his people from the invading Turks but killed them minus his son by taking the Dark Powers to become Dracula. Very well written with great action sequences, Dracula Untold has good period costuming, a good flow to it, & it flies by in time with a running time of only one hour & thirty-two minutes!! 7 out of 10 stars!!
Review of Dracula Untold
