Dracula

Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning actor, known as a “chameleon” for his transformative performances, Gary Oldman is celebrated for bringing audiences to tears with his talent. His latest project is titled “Parthenope.”

Research reveals the medical motive behind Vlad the Impaler’s tears of blood

After 15 years of stalled restoration efforts at Tokat Castle, believed to have once housed the notorious Dracula in its dungeons, the landmark still awaits completion of restoration works.

"The castle where Vlad Dracula was held captive is in [the Central Anatolian province of] Tokat," history researcher Aybike Gazioglü said.

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hill-top castle in search of the truth about Dracula.

"He was a Romanian prince, not a vampire," said the schoolboy, as he tripped by torchlight through the nocturnal gloom of Forchtenstein Castle.

The Premiere Nights Athens International Film Festival joins the movement to save the historic Ideal cinema (46 Panepistimiou) in downtown Athens with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula." The gothic thriller has been digitally restored - and approved by the legendary filmmaker - to mark the 30th anniversary since its original release, and stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keanu Re

"Renfield" is not Nicolas Cage's first blush with a vampire.

In 1988's "Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an immortal bloodsucker. His bug-eyed performance was essentially the birth of the over-the-top, kabuki-inflected mythology of Cage. Years later, it would launch a thousand memes, a kind of digital version of becoming undead.

The event was organized to mark 125 years since Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s was published in 1897

Four Romanian-Dutch brothers: Tymon, Eliot, Dafydd and Lemuel Cotoarba have opened, in central-western Sighisoara, the first Fusion Media Museum in Romania, 100% independent, after deciding to give up on the life in the West, in order to dedicate to promote our country's history.

Visitors to Romania's forbidding Bran Castle, widely known as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula, are being jabbed with needles rather than vampiric fangs this weekend in a coronavirus vaccination drive.

"I came to visit the castle with my family and when I saw the poster I gathered up my courage and agreed to get the injection," said 39-year-old engineer Liviu Necula.

History enthusiasts are holding their breaths for the restoration of Tokat Castle in Turkey, where archeologists say Vlad the Impaler was held hostage for four years in the 15th century. (DHA Photo)