He overpowers Vlad and prepares to impale his heart with a wooden stake, but Vlad turns into a flock of bats and evades him. Aware that vampires are weakened by silver, Mehmed has lined the floor of his tent with silver coins, reducing Vlad's strength and speed to that of a human - and impairing his vision - as Mehmed fights him with a silver sword. Vlad and his vampires arrive, hidden by a large lightning storm, and easily massacre the terrified Ottoman soldiers, while Vlad himself goes after Mehmed, who is holding Îngeraș captive. Vlad returns to the monastery and turns the small group of survivors and mortally wounded into vampires as well.Īt the Ottoman army's camp, Mehmed prepares for a massive invasion of Europe. As he does so, he summons black storm clouds to block out the sun. Vlad reluctantly drinks her blood, triggering his final transformation into a full-blooded vampire and granting him even greater powers, and in doing so he frees the ancient vampire from his cave by breaking the magical seal imprisoning him. Dying, Mirena pleads with Vlad to drink her blood before the sun rises and lifts his curse so that he will have the strength to save their son. Despite his superhuman speed, Vlad cannot reach her in time. Mirena tries to defend her son and falls from the edge of the monastery wall. Vlad commands an enormous swarm of bats to repel them however, the soldiers are actually a decoy force, allowing a handful of Turks to infiltrate the monastery, kill many of the inhabitants and kidnap Îngeraș. That night, the Ottoman army marches on the monastery. Vlad's sudden increased strength also arouses suspicion among his subjects. Mirena learns of Vlad's curse, as she sees him holding silver to keep himself weak when near his people to avoid revealing his condition to them or attacking them for blood. He then sends most of the castle's subjects to Cozia Monastery for safety. When he returns to Castle Dracula, the Ottoman army attacks, but Vlad single-handedly kills them all. He discovers that he has the ability to transform into a cloud of bats. Otherwise, he will remain a vampire forever, and the ancient vampire will be freed, the seal on his cave broken by having given the darkness a worthy offering to plague the world like himself. If he resists the intense urge to drink human blood for three days, he will turn back into a human. The vampire tells him there are consequences and offers him some of his blood, which will temporarily give Vlad the powers of a vampire. Knowing war is coming, Vlad returns to the Broken Tooth Mountain cave to seek help from the vampire. Vlad offers himself in place of the boys but Mehmed refuses and demands Vlad's son in addition. Mirena believes Vlad can convince Sultan Mehmed II to show mercy. Vlad offers them the usual tribute payment of silver coins, but the emissary wants an additional tribute of 1,000 boys to be trained as Janissaries. Vlad celebrates an Easter feast with his wife Mirena and son Îngeraș, when an Ottoman contingent arrives at the castle. Vlad barely escapes and returns to his castle, where he learns from a local monk that the creature is a vampire, a Roman from the days of the Empire named Caligula, who was tricked by a demon for personal success and great powers, but was trapped in the cave as the price for this. Within the cave, they are attacked in the dark by an inhumanly strong and fast humanoid creature, killing Vlad's retinue. The stream leads to Broken Tooth Mountain, the top of which has a cave carpeted in crushed bone. Now ruling his domains in peace, Vlad and his soldiers discover a helmet in a stream and fear that an Ottoman scouting party is preparing the way for invasion. He was called " Vlad the Impaler, Son of the Dragon", after slaughtering thousands by impaling them on spears, but became sickened by his own acts and abandoned his past. As a child, he was a royal ward in the palace of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in the Sultan's elite Janissary corps, where he became their most feared warrior. In the 15th century, Vlad Drăculea is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania. Dracula Untold grossed $217 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics. Universal Pictures released the film in regular and IMAX cinemas on October 10, 2014. Principal photography began in Northern Ireland on August 5, 2013. Luke Evans portrays the title character, with Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Art Parkinson, and Charles Dance cast in supporting roles. In this adaptation, Dracula is the monster alter ego of historical figure Vlad III "the Impaler" Drăculea. The plot creates an origin story for the titular character, rather than using the storyline of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. Dracula Untold is a 2014 American action horror film directed by Gary Shore in his feature film debut and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.
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