Drácula - O Príncipe Das Trevas

One thing that can be said confidently is that there has never been any shortage of Dracula themed movies. Even after Hammer Horror were laid to rest we got wall to wall films cashing in on the popularity of the worlds favorite Transylvanian.

This is one of those efforts that presents him as almost an anti-hero, forced into the darkness through anger at the loss of his true love.

Trouble is this one simply isn't very good, it's a combination of classic mythology and modern nonsense that simply doesn't work.

It looks shoddy, it sounds poor and poor Jon Voight looks very out of place.

With a blonde dracula, practically no bites/blood/vamperic action and more Christian references than a priest could shake his tallywacker at this is a poor piece of Dracula cinema.

The Good:

A few decent designs here and there

The Bad:

Far too much christianity

Incredibly dull

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Jon Voight must have lost a bet

right of the bat this is a rape of a classic love story with after school special violence, skimpy costumes, poorly written characters, fake looking sets, and in many cases just plain bad acting, needless to say i did not enjoy what i saw one single bit

and why the hell is the Liech king(Wrath) from war-craft one of Dracula's minions?

all movies has their audience, and this one is directed towards children, and hillbilly's born with 6 fingers on each hand (the only reasonable explanation for the brief nudity in Dracula's castle)

there are a lot of question raised around why anyone would make certain decisions during the production of this made for TV movie.

-10/10 not even worthy of ironic appreciation

This is a low budget film about how Dracula came to be after his love, Elizabeth, was murdered. After his change, he sets his mind to finding the "Lightbringer", the scythe that Cain used to kill his brother Abel. It is with this scythe that Dracula, a descendant of Abel, will be able to prevent death to anyone he chooses essentially making himself a god. He runs into a problem when he finds what he believes to be the reincarnation of Elizabeth in Alina, a demon slaying woman. He tries to woo her into remembering the life they once shared while a group of Alina's fellow demon slayers both search for her and seek to kill Dracula.

I liked it. That's not to say that it didn't need work but overall I found the story interesting. Again, it is low budget so you get so-so acting, shaky scripting and action that needs some choreographic help. I've seen much worse though. This is one that you just have to give it a chance to play out all the way and then make your decision as to how good you think it is.

This is probably more like fantasy than horror. It does make Dracula himself appear sympathetic and how he became what he was: a vampire. The castle looked pretty good, and some of the costumes were nice. The armour of Wrath was World of Warcraft style. I didn't expect a band of misfits to go vampire hunting, when we already saw Dracula was a tragic character who lost his beloved. It just makes you not want him to die. Beside the story, the characters were like comic book people. The vampire hunter Van Helsing was too bumbling for this job so he made way for the hero thief! Then the demon slayer who looked like a wildling straight out of Game of Thrones. Then two little girls who can beat men!, Yeah they're both warriors. Even though knights are wearing full armour, these two sisters are dressed in ripped sexy Victoria Secret style outfits. We get more of these Victoria Secrets inside Dracula's castle. I did enjoy the romance and the sadness of Dracula who mourns his beloved, but the rest is double cheese!

Dracula has that power to heal wrath(i mean Lich king)even he repaired the broken armor chest, the thing about this movie is that the makers don't know the real good story bout Count Dracula, Vlad the impaler. the castle design ha ha even in games the 3D designs are better.. so much supernatural(the TV show) here.. demons, undead etc. but not a story bout vampires... my votes -15/10 the best char with hugh jackman - van helsing 2004 and in my opinion if the director was another , someone who has made high rated movies could make this so much better for watchin and excitement... but as i can see this director should stay on the path to make some bad horror movies, don't give him a chance to make another disaster movie like he has done right now about Dracula the blond gay ..