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The Impaler

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While visiting the castle of Romania's Vlad the Impaler, American teens become caught up in a grisly ritual to bring the infamous leader back from hell.

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Annlee Ellingson Los Angeles Times "I have a feeling this is going to ... suck," one of these awful characters whines. She's not wrong. Rated: 1.5/5 Oct 30, 2013 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed It's endless padding, and laughable acting, followed by zero pay off, in the end. Mar 21, 2014 Full Review Brent Simon Shockya.com The script has a couple interesting ideas at its core, but the film doesn't really have the resources to convincingly pull off its period piece flashbacks, or even sustain tension for long stretches. Rated: C Nov 1, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member It was great besides the ending . Dracula should've stay dead. But ,._._i guss it adding to Briam Stoker 's book. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member I thought Derek Hockenbrough did a great job as a director. The acting is kind of choppy, but the directing was great. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member It tried, it horribly failed. Simple math. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member The story created in this "return to Gothic horror" is a decent enough concept, but some of the more detailed portions of the story fell flat. I never really felt a connection to the characters or the vision that Hockenbrough was going for in "The Impaler". The story arc kept a mediocre drama but there were no real thrills and the whole atmospheric suspense was missing in this film. The characters were two dimensional and sort-of cliché, even though, it is a major hang-up within the genre, acceptable as long as the cast can sell it. Unfortunately the cast never really convinced me of who they were in "The Impaler". The special effects in this one try to pull off the blood and guts nightmare but a few scenes failed to do so. The ones that did work created a decent practical effect. The only real problem and major irritation I have with "The Impaler" is that "if you are gonna make a movie featuring Dracula then you bloody well better have Dracula in your film!" Only two maybe three scenes even had the guy on screen. Just a lot of folklore and fabrications that were incorrect and blasphemous to the Dracula mythos, filled with inaccuracies about the Dark Prince. I didn't really care for "The Impaler" , found the film's inability to provide both horror or enough vampire in a film labeled horror and about vampires. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis While visiting the castle of Romania's Vlad the Impaler, American teens become caught up in a grisly ritual to bring the infamous leader back from hell.
Director
Derek Hockenbrough
Screenwriter
Diana Busuioc, Derek Hockenbrough
Production Co
Flawless Production
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 31, 2013
Runtime
1h 26m
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