2014 · horror · action · fantasy
Dracula Untold
Directed by Gary Shore1h 32m2014
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.
Our read: Dracula Untold (2014) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal horror · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
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