In the early 15th century, the Balkans and Eastern Europe as a whole suffered under Ottoman raids and conquest. The Ottoman ...

The year is 1447. In the marshes of Wallachia, Vlad Dracul falls to betrayal, his sons hunted across empires. His surviving ...

A struggling filmmaker (Adonis Tanta) is working on a film called Dracula, but it’s “not about Dracula, just a washed-up actor playing Dracula,” as he explains in a clip from Radu Jude’s film of the ...

Some of the planet’s most amazing sights haven been beaten into oblivion by severe weather and others were simply abandoned ...

Vlad III Dracula, the Wallachian Prince who became Bram Stokers inspiration behind his famous vampire 'Count Dracula,' was a brutal ruler. So brutal that history dubbed him 'Vlad the Impaler' due to ...

In 53 BCE, at the Battle of Carrhae, Crassus severely underestimated the Parthian cavalry and archers. His army was massacred ...

From a Danish palace that barely survived a fire to a Japanese military fortress, these are the most beautiful castles in the ...

Scars of Dracula, 1970. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Michael Gwynn, ...

In our exclusive chat, Danny Elfman discusses his return to horror with 'Dracula: A Love Tale,' and the monstrous influences ...

As a massive horror nerd and huge fan of Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel Dracula, I often struggle to enjoy film adaptations of his work. Many of them go wildly off-script, or focus more on cheap ...

Radu Jude is the internet’s favorite filmmaker. Or at least its most controversial. Despite their regional particularities—unfolding across what he calls “the margins of Europe”—Jude’s films reflect ...

We leave Bucharest on a gloomy October morning, heading north. It seems fitting, given our journey. I might be on a two-day Transylvanian tour but in my head I’m following Jonathan Harker’s fateful ...