I think Vlad was christian...
Yes he was. But he was one blood thirsty guy. Some delegates from the Dodge of Venice showed up in his court as emissaries. They didn’t remove their hats saying it wasn’t t g e custom in Venice. So Dracula had their hats nailed on and sent them back to Venice. In a town near the castle there was a well with a solid gold cup to use. No one not even a traveler stole it. Another case he had a bunch of people impaled in different ways. Then had his lunch set up in the middle of t h employment. One of his ministers complained about the smellso he had him impaled on a much taller stake to put the guy above the smell. In a valley on the route the Muslim Army had to travel through he took all the Muslim captives and had them impaled all along the route. So m e put the number as high as 20,000 but my guess is it was only a couple thousand.
His fight really saved most of Europe by delaying the Muslims and making the practice to high. In the end he was betrayed by his brother Radu, the handsome, and the Holy Roman Emperor
“I think Vlad was christian...”
So was his father. Dad was awarded with admission into the order of the Dragon for his defense of Christianity from Muslim invaders - a very high honor among European royalty.
Vlad highlighted that honor by calling himself Dracula. Draco is dragon in Latin, and in his language, the ula at the end indicated “son of”
I saw the movie, and liked it. It seemed to me that Christianity was treated favorably. The priest was a righteous character, and the bad guy (the old vampire) was non/anti-christian.
Muslims do get negatively portrayed, and unfairly blamed for imprisoning and torturing Vlad as a boy - which was actually done by family, friends and Christian political rivals. It does highlight the Muslim Turks practice of conscripting Christian boys to be raised as Muslim soldiers (Janissaries).