Mikes Film Talk

Dracula Untold: A Good Old Fashioned Popcorn Film (Review and Trailer)

Universal makes a great return to the horror genre with Dracula Untold, a good old fashioned popcorn film, not to be taken seriously but to be enjoyed. Directed by Gary Shore, in what is his first venture into feature films, and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless using characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula the film is a CGI heavy, epically scoped twist on the myth of Vlad Tepes. The movie’s plot is a variation on Faust where the Transylvanian leader essentially sells his soul in order to save his son from the hostile Turks as well as his people.