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Oh dear. A new angle on the Dracula story... which is that Count Vlad was really a nice guy!
I guess this could have worked out but, for me, it didn't. Mainly because as well as making Vlad basically good, almost everyone else is bad. I think only Vlad's wife, his son and the odd monk aren't essentially wicked in one way or another. He has some decent pals at the beginning but they get killed off early by the thing in the cave.
That was clearly designed to serve as a contrast, but it is so stark that nothing is believable. Also, it is just not credible that Vlad should have such a terrible past and yet be relatively undamaged by it.
There are plenty of other things wrong with the film too... and a few things that are good. Unfortunately one of the best things about it is that it's only 90 mins long.
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