2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is one of the most underrated horror films of all time. 3.4 is just underrating it. I give it 10 out of 10. This is a Dracula sequel. Like most Dracula sequels it awesome. This is one of the scariest movie of all time. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Dracula (March 1931) is better. Nosferatu (1922) is also better. Dracula (1992). If this movie does not scary you no movie will. This is better then Dracula (April 1931). It also a lot better then Nosferatu (1979) Dracula's daughter (1936) is better. Son of Dracula (1943) is better. This is better the Abbot and Costello meet Dracula. House of Frankenstein is better. House of Dracula is also better. See this movie is it one of the scariest movie you will ever see.

Bill Widman I was much impressed with "Vlad," and quickly voted it the best vampire movie I've seen this decade. Now before I go on, let me apologize in advance to all the fans of Wes Craven for what I am about to say. I did not like "Dracula 2000," or it's sequels. "Vlad" is a movie that gives me what I want when I watch a vampire movie. It has all the elements I like (crave) about the spooky Gothic style of the classic vampire. This includes sex, which in a vampire movie is not gratuitous, but part of the allure and mystique of the vampire. But where "Vlad" really delivers is in how well it maintains the constant atmosphere of mystery and apprehension. The music was perfect. Big points for spooky atmosphere. Also big points for including the historical Vlad Dracula, and, best of all, the location (what is it realtors say about location?) which is in his home country of Romania, and includes dramatic views of Bran Castle. For a B movie, this does exceptionally well. I was impressed with the special effects of the face transformations, which was subtle yet effective. It is indeed impressive how much work was put into a film with such a budget, and how fortunate they managed to film it on the historical grounds of Romania, and even include the people who live there. Anyone who can find fault with the acting knows nothing about acting. Did it have enough plot? Hell yes! And who can say the photography was not excellent? With apologies to Wes Craven fans, I say "Vlad" succeeds where "Dracula 2000" fails. As a fan of Bram Stoker, I am aware that this author's novel has NEVER been accurately told in film,(This includes the so called "Bram Stoker's Dracula") and that I must respect the right of an artist to make his own interpretation. But to make Dracula to be Judas Iscariot, I say, is taking too much liberty with artistic license. Not to mention that it lacks the Old World Gothic and darkly romantic mystique. For those who appreciate what a good vampire movie is, I say "Vlad" delivers.

krotkruton I read a couple of the other reviews of this movie and didn't think that most of them were fair. I really think this was just an average movie, not a good or bad movie, just average.I watch a lot of movies and love anything about vampires, but this movie didn't really do it for me. There was a lot of information about Vlad, but there wasn't a whole lot of info about vampires. Without giving anything away, I'll just say that the causes are Vlad's vampirism were nothing you haven't heard before if you've seen more than one vampire movie. With all the build up about Vlad, I was hoping for a more original plot. However, I don't think that because the movie failed to be original that it should count against it, I just think it shouldn't be praised for it either.Besides the plot, the movies did have a pretty good production value. I'd say that it was a bit better than a made-for-TV movie but obviously not a big budget film. Just because it's an independent movie doesn't mean that its great. Independent companies put out plenty of bad movies, but this falls somewhere in-between.I wouldn't say this movie is worth watching, but I don't regret watching it either.

Danelush ***SPOILERS*** In the first moments of the movie I thought: "Well, it starts well, shows something not shown in other movies!" I refer to the sequence where the father and Mircea, the eldest brother of Vlad were having a gruesome end! But from this moment on, the touch with the reality is absent.First of all, Vlad Tepes' father, Vlad Basarab, was known as Vlad Dracul not because he was part of a secret organization, as it was suggested in the movie, but for the following reason: He received from the emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg the highest Order that was given to a knight in those troubled days - higher than The Teutons' Order, The Order of the Maltese Knights or The Order of the Knights from Rhodos. That was The Dragon's Order. In Romanian, Dracul means The Devil. And from Dragon to Devil was only a small step.Than, Vlad and his brother, Radu The Handsome, weren't even there when their relatives died. They were forced guests at the Sublime Porte as a pledge that their father wouldn't have risen again against the Turks.Another weird thing in this movie is that misinterprets an old Romanian tradition. When a young girl dies at the age of marriage, she is buried dressed in a wedding dress, as a sign of her purity. She is not wedded with her fiancé, as Linsey says in the movie. But I guess, the one who wrote the script was after the sensational, at any costs.And what was that blur with the rambling English lass and the wanna-be knight, Justin?! Vlad Tepes (now known as Draculea or Dracula) has punished very harsh the thieves, liars and the enemies. And that scared people as hell. Yes, he was harsh even for those days. But efficient!!! While he ruled the country nobody dared to still something!!! LOL! That's why in my country HE is a national HERO!!!!And the verses recited in the movie (wroted By Mihai Eminescu) shows it very clear: "Why aren't you coming back, our Lord Tzepesh, to seize them,/To divide them in two packs : in in-sanes and crooks/And by force hoard them up in two large prison houses/And set the jail and the cuckoos house ablaze.So, in conclusion, if you want to see a movie about vampires that doesn't scare not even a cat, well... you might watch this one. But if you would like to see a REAL movie about Vlad Tepes, I suggest Vlad Tepes aka Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula (1979).