Vlad The Impaler
When it come to historical disfigurement and character defamation, the boat has sailed for Vlad The Impaler long before Bram Stoker. For one, if he did ever look deeper into the character than just a side note in an encyclopedia, or better yet, the character of the nick lord in Vlad, then one could hardly tell out from Dracula.
Now regarded as a national hero in Romania, also having starred in a couple of films, he is still portrayed as being the twin of Stoker’s vampire in most films such as Dracula(1974), Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula Dark Prince and Dracula Untold. In Turkiye, crime would not have made him a national hero and the bloody images portrayed in this rough and tough nationalist historical action movie characterize him as one of the most ruthless Draculas ever depicted on screen although the context of the film seems to be somewhat like a biography written by the fan club of Mr. George A Custer on Mr. Sitting Bull.
In the film, Erkan Petekkaya plays the violent Vlad, who bears a loud grudge for being raised in the courts of the Turkish sultan as a ward. Apart from killing tens of thousands of his own Wallachians, and viciously oppressing a few Ottomans (history’s old joke about an ambassador being nailed by his own turban is used), he also had wards of biological weapons, a process of planting plague viruses in a certain type of rat, which we might assume was supposed to be the baghdad rat and the origin of the Black Death (surely the film directors did not steal this from Satan Rites?).
Gulsah Sahin portrays Vvlad’s wife in the film, who unfortunately, survives Vlad and squirms as an evil dragon lady. Vlad takes on the mantle of God, and dares a papal legate, good old God as well; while the Ottoman Empire is shown as an open-minded country with smooth relations among Jews, Christians and Moslems.
The film revolves around a group of Delilers or in its roughest translation, the Turkish Samurai, Deilers were an actual type of shock troop in the Ottoman Empire. They take it upon themselves to put on oaths before conquer, put on masks and strange clothes, help women in the villages who are being molested by Vlad and his anarchist soldiers, play with the kids, beat up stomach-baring Impaleri zeks and then attach nicknames like The Silent One and The Nameless and have quite background stories to them and get all sentimental thinking about the future and their task to cleanse the world of criminal elements.
The leader of the delilers, Gokkurt (Cem Ucan) rides into battle with a set of black Hawkman wings and espouses before it becomes a melee with the Imapaler. The mounted version available in the UK depicts the story quite generally. UK Director Cair Osman Kaya indeed succeeds in merging Key Demirovs original script with the B-style film blending the Great Seven style out western with barbarian movies from Italy with horrible characters blank, terrible wars and music which is trying so hard to be dramatic.
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