Entertainment & Arts
A neck-biting nobleman dispatched by 19th-Century literature to haunt this wind-swept outreach of Transylvania has stirred to life in the post-Communist era as the embodiment of a culture clash between patriotic Romanians and Hollywood.
Oct. 25, 1994
Politics
P residential politics are now zooming toward 1996.
Aug. 7, 1995
Movies
Director Derek Hockenbrough’s vision of a modern-day version of Vlad the Impaler is bigger than his budget, and it shows.
Oct. 30, 2013
When the program formally lists a credit for “Rat construction,” you’re in for a different evening.
Feb. 5, 1993
Travel & Experiences
To stumble on this pastoral village, with its timbered homes’ facades painted with folk art flowers, horse-and-buggy transportation and a public drinking trough where water flows into a hollowed log, is to thrill at finding something that feels undiscovered.
Aug. 15, 2015
Review: ‘The Impaler’ tries to keep it real but misses the mark
Before the current film “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” there was Stoker’s fin de siecle novel “Dracula.”
Jan. 24, 1993
Romania embraces the fictional vampire and his real-life namesake. A theme park, though -- that may be going too far.
Aug. 24, 2003
World & Nation
The descendants of a former Romanian princess are suing the government for the return of an ancient fortress known as “Dracula’s Castle”--or $25 million in compensation.
Aug. 22, 2001
In “Vlad” writer-director Michael Sellers envisions Vlad the Impaler, the historical figure who inspired the legend of Dracula, as a tragic figure.
Sept. 10, 2004