Review – Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

For awhile now I’ve been convinced that the real story of Vlad the Impaler – or at least as close to the real story as history will let us come – would make a better tale than the gothic potboiler cooked up by Bram Stoker more than a hundred years ago. This made-for-TV production only partially proves my point. Though its heart is in the right place, the story wavers between interesting 15th century history and cartoonish attempts to incorporate the vampire legends into the matter-of-fact drama (such as suggesting that the “sunlight kills him” thing might have had something to do with a genetic condition that made him sensitive to light). Though this is better than most vampire stories of similar ilk, it’s still too low rent to really impress. Mildly amusing