Dark Prince: The True Story Of Dracula

I found this one cruising around the You Tubes and got caught up in this account of the real life personality who formed the basis for the Dracula myth. Vlad Tepis was nothing if not brutal due to a life where he was himself brutalized as a ransom prisoner of the Turks. Romania and the Ottoman Empire fought many battles against each other in the 1400s.

It's a violent retelling of a story I knew quite well already and I have to admit that I wasn't ready for scenes of people being impaled on stakes. What is it in that part of the world that makes impaling the torture method of choice?? Sick bastards like to watch the suffering over a nice lunch I guess.

 

The fight scenes are incredibly realistic and great for a low budget, locally filmed epic. This is not the vampire Dracula you might have thought from the film case - it's a look at the real life Prince of Transylvania. However, you can see how the leap can be made between the man and the myths that have since grown up around him.

It also has Jane March in it and she is always spectacular to look at. Arguably one of the most beautiful women ever to be put on film.