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"Death cannot separate us, for one life is born from the other." ↬ Dracula Untold (2014) | dir. Gary Shore

Haunting of the Queen Mary (Gary Shore, 2023).

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Dracula Untold(2014) 10th Anniversary

Dracula Untold turns 10! I don’t know if anyone remembers or even likes this movie, but I do and I do. It’s the origin story of how Vlad Tepes gained vampiric abilities to help save his people from the invading armies of Mehmed II and eventually becomes Dracula. Though it’s not the suave creature we’re familiar with, Luke Evans is pretty good as Vlad, playing him as a respectable leader who has tried to forget his violent past as a worrier. When his childhood friend turned rival, Mehmed, threatens to take Vlad’s only son for his expanding army, he’s faced with the decision to become a monster with incredible power in order to protect his family.

I’m no world historian, so I don’t know how much of real history was used to craft this story, but it does sound like a neat idea to take from the real Vlad Tepes and combine it with the Bram Stoker story. At the time, it was enough to capture my attention. Also, it’s a Dracula movie being put out by Universal. This was Universal’s first official attempt at recreating the Universal Monsters, which sadly never took off the way they intended. Still, it’s a much better attempt than Tom Cruise meets The Mummy(2017). While the movie is more action/ adventure than horror and does become a bit mediocre in the middle, you get big action set-pieces, a kick ass score by Ramin Djawadi, and a strong lead in Luke Evans, who single handedly carries the movie.

-Jose Barr (10/10/24)