hello and welcome back to another video today we're going to be looking at the vampires of the
movie dracula untold if you enjoy movies about vampires and werewolves i cover a lot of them
so if you haven't please subscribe and check out my other videos the movie starts off with a
bit of history in the year of our lord 1442 the turkish enslaved a thousand transylvanian boys
they were beaten without mercy and trained to kill without a second thought from these boys
one grew so fierce that entire armies would retreat and tear at the mention of his name
vlad the impaler son of the dragon sickened by his monstrous axe vlad came to bury his past with the
dead and returned to transylvania to rule in peace but he would come to be known by another name in
the beginning of the movie vlad finds a helmet in a stream that comes from broken tooth mountain
on the mountain he finds a cave which he thinks has turkish scouts hiding inside it
while searching the cave they realize the floor is covered in a strange material and vlad
quickly realizes it's crushed bone there's also skulls and some assorted items around the cave
vlad realized quickly that this is not any turkish scout him and his men are then attacked
by an unseen force in the dark cave the other men are killed while trying to escape vlad manages to
cut the creature with his sword before he's thrown to the ground vlad manages to reach the sun-filled
doorway and the creature comes no further when vlad raises his sword into the sunlight the blood
disintegrates and disappears this is where we get to see a vampire for the first time
i do have to say that i appreciate that this movie wastes no time getting to the good stuff
it's not a huge lead up until we get to see the first vampire pretty much happens right away
when vlad returns from the cave a holy man informs him that it's no coincidence that he encountered
the creature he says every brother in his order awoke from an identical dream he says he would not
have thought such a thing possible but he suffered the same vision as well a vision of a creature
laying siege to this holy place he shows what looks to be a diagram of a vampire and he says
roman mystics prophesies the coming of great evil a vampire we see some close-ups of fangs and their
elongated nails according to the holy man vampire comes from the greek word pie to drink the beast
was once a mortal man who summoned a demon from the depths of hell to trade for his dark power
the demon however tricked a man granting his wish but his price was an eternity
condemned to the darkness of the cave where he remains until he finds another to set him free
after vlad decides he will not give the sultans the 1 000 transylvanian boys they want for an army
including vlad's own son he knows he will need some kind of help to defend his people
desperate he returns to the cave of the creature that nearly killed him when vlad returns to the
cave the vampire says you returned no one has ever returned this already sets vlad aside from all the
others the vampires come across in the cave this creature flicks vlad's sore away with a finger
he tells vlad that usually men reek of fear but in him he senses hope vlad possesses a silver
ring and the vampire says your silver offends me cloak it from my sight and we see from the
perspective of the vampire that the silver ring seems to give off an almost blinding bright light
vlad says that he wants to defend his people his family and if he had the strength of the
creature he could do it the vampire starts to explain that he was condemned to the cave
by the one who turned him which we already knew but he says that he has been waiting in eternity
for a man of vlad's strength his gifts and his will a man worthy of the dark in all its powers
he grabs a skull and smashes it and says for if i am your salvation you are mine the vampire bites
his own wrist and lets the blood fill the broken skull cap and tells vlad to drink he says vlad
will have a taste of his power and the strength of a hundred men the speed of a falling star
dominion over the night and all its creatures to see and hear through their senses and even
heal grievous wounds to which vlad asks at what price the vampire states that once he drinks his
thirst for human blood will be insatiable but if he can resist for three days he will return
to his normal state having sampled his power and perhaps saved his people and then vlad asks
and if i feed to which the vampire replies the price would be worse than if you had never
stepped in the cave because he will be set free having granted the darkness a worthy offering
vlad will become a vessel as he is a scourge on the earth destined to destroy everything you hold
dear it's interesting to note that the vampire master says you will have a taste of my power
and the strength of a hundred men and so on so he doesn't necessarily think of his strength and
speed as part of his power when he says his power he might literally mean like supernatural powers
like when vlad changes the weather or makes cloud cover or then clears the clouds later
the only other specific instance i could think of supernatural powers is maybe when he turns himself
into like a swarm of bats and kills people but because the original vampire says a taste of my
power we can still safely assume that the original vampire is probably still much stronger than vlad
the vampire says that he wants to be free so he can unleash his wrath against the one who betrayed
him this probably being the demon who tricked him and one day he will call on vlad to serve him
his pawn in an immortal game of revenge when vlad drinks the blood the master vampire seems to feel
something as he seems to look away and show some small reaction possibly the establishment of their
connection when vlad drinks the vampire blood he asks what now and the vampire says you die
so you must have to die to become a vessel for the darkness vlad then awakens by the riverside after
having some flashbacks and visions of the vampire one of the visions seems to be himself about to
bite someone the vampire that gave vlad his blood seems to be the first and only of the vampires as
he is referred to as the master vampire unless the demon they refer to as tricking him was in fact
another vampire but the holy man describes the event as a demon with summon from hell so i think
the creature in the cave is the first vampire and vlad being the first suitable candidate for the
darkness he is now becoming the second i think the only way there could have been previous vampires
was if possibly a vampire existed before this master vampire and was slain and then this new
vampire became the new master vampire which is possible vlad has some pretty amazing abilities
at this point he is not a vampire because he has not been fully turned only given a sample
of the original creature's powers even still he is immensely powerful his abilities before and after
he becomes a full vampire seem to be identical other than when he has the power to darken and
remove the darkness from the sky allowing him to travel at will in the daylight although i assume
he received a strength buff when he consumed blood for the first time finalizing his transformation
when vlad first awakens at the powers of a vampire he notices his silver ring is burning his skin so
he takes it off immediately he places his hand on a rock to stand and crushes the stone with
his bare hand showing he has immense strength he receives a small cut on his hand when he crushes
the rock but it heals completely right in front of his eyes he is able to hear a spider wrapping some
prey in a web from several meters away he's then shown being able to see in some kind of special
vision probably seeing through the senses of other animals like the master vampire said he could it
looks similar to a thermal vision as the creatures are highlighted he then looks up into the sky
revealing the milky way through the clouds this possibly due to him being able to see at night
so he can maybe see other spectrums of blight not too sure about that one he can run extremely fast
but also possesses the ability to travel even faster in the form of a small swarm of bats
although he mostly uses this for fast travel or teleportation-like ability while fighting he can
in fact kill in this form and quite easily vlad is so strong that he is able to defeat a thousand
soldiers by himself with no trouble at all we know the master vampire has been alive for a very long
time and is seemingly not aged at all so these vampires are immortal and completely immune to
aging the vampires in this movie are i guess what you would consider traditional vampires in the
sense that they seem to be weak to silver crosses sunlight and stakes through the heart we never see
it but presumably they're also weak to garlic and holy water these vampires are definitely
classic vampires that stray away from the biological disease kind of vampires these are 100
cursed beings with supernatural powers when the holy man uses a cross to keep the vampires back
we momentarily see the cross through vlad's vision and the cross burns a bright red and causes the
vampires to retreat back in pain and they can't even gaze upon it covering their eyes when vlad
feeds on blood he seems to slightly transform into a more beast-like form and his eyes change as well
so vlad may possess another form altogether if you were to feed on enough blood or become enraged
enough another bit of evidence that lends itself to this is that later in the movie when vlad goes
to attack someone his hand transforms into a hand similar to the vampires we see depicted in
the holy man's books so vlad could possibly take this form completely if he wanted to the master
vampire has also shown being able to open his mouth extremely wide and has a very large tongue
so they might be able to manipulate their physical form at will to a certain degree and although all
the other vampires we see are completely blood hungry and kill everyone in sight vlad is able to
control himself around his family and his people and never attacks anyone this is a good example
of how his will power is stronger than most and would probably made him a good offering to the
darkness when vlad is fighting while standing on top of silver coins his strength and speed are
seemingly reduced to an almost human level but he does still retain some of his abilities the man he
is fighting asks him how long will you be able to bear it in here you grow more wary by the moment
so the presence of such a large amount of silver also slowly weakens him where eventually he
might become completely incapacitated also when someone tries to stake him his armor seems to
disintegrate away from the tip of the stake so seemingly a vampire could be staked even while
wearing heavy armor this possibly being part of the supernatural curse vlad is seemingly killed
by sunlight but is brought back to life by only a small amount of blood so these vampires can
go into a sleep or a suspended animation if gravely damaged until their body can heal
as the master vampire said before vlad will have dominion over the night and all of its creatures
vlad is only shown controlling bats in the movie but presumably there are other creatures of the
night possibly wolves he can summon bats to him and command them to do whatever he wants
kill people bring him a coke well maybe not that he summons thousands of bats during a battle
and unleash them on the turkish army like a tidal wave men are thrown and likely killed by the sheer
weight and numbers of bats slamming into them and the others are shown being bitten and attacked by
multiple bats one of my favorite things he does with the bats is when he makes them form into
a giant fist and he punches the ground and it causes like a giant shock wave that was probably
one of my favorite scenes of the movie after he does that though it actually shows a lot of the
soldiers getting back to their feet but if that many bats slammed into a bunch of people they'd
probably be squashed like a bug i mean there's gotta be like a few tons of bats there at least
i also wanted to mention that in a deleted scene vlad makes eye to eye contact with ishmael and
commands him to kill someone and despite knowing the risk to his life he is compelled to attack
so vlad also possesses the ability to manipulate people coerce them and order humans to obey him
almost like a mind control at one point vlad is in the tent with his wife and she notices all the
scars he had from being whipped as a child have all mysteriously disappeared so not only do your
new wounds heal but any kind of previous wounded ailment will also be completely healed when
you become a vampire he exposes himself to the sunlight briefly and it causes the skin to turn
to an almost ash and begins to float away this is definitely a different effect than a lot that i've
seen but it's pretty interesting in this movie it seems like the way the vampires turn others
is by giving them some of their blood these vampires cannot turn people by biting them
they bite only to feed when vlad received blood from the master he hears his voice in his head
while having cravings for blood this possibly alluding to the idea that they are connected
so if you sire a new vampire you then might have a connection with them although we never see this
come into play when vlad turns the other vampires so it could be something unique to the master
vampire when vlad is around other people eating and when he's around some blood that gets spilled
on the ground his bloodlust begins to take over he becomes fascinated with the blood and begins to
hear the master vampire talking in his head saying things like fulfill your destiny set me free and
you can hear other voices of people whispering there's a woman and even some people chanting
this is probably the master vampire playing tricks on vlad's mind he would no doubt have the
urge to drink blood but i think the master vampire makes us worse by whispering in his ear trying to
persuade him because of course the master vampire has quite a lot to gain if vlad loses control
we see the master vampire later and he appears to look totally normal again as opposed to how he
looked in the cave this possibly due to him being able to consume blood more frequently or being
free of the curse that kept him in the cave had something to do with his appearance well that's
it for this video i hope you enjoyed i have to say dracula untold is probably one of my favorite
renditions of the classic dracula story also if you didn't notice the actor that plays the master
vampire also plays thomas from the underworld series i find it funny how a lot of these actors
and vampire movies also appear as vampires and other movies like how lucian the head lycan
from underworld also appears as one of the head vampires in twilight anyway if you guys have any
other suggestions for movies you want me to make videos about please leave them in the comments
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