Facts!

Such a disappointment

Was gonna be monster squad

I hear they butchered the ending to make it part of the DU then skeddaled back and forth after it was released.

@@JcBravo8 I'm not even suprised to hear this lol

At this point the dark universe is dead as a franchise can be. Maybe there will be a reboot at some point but a actual sequel is pretty unlikely.

@@KS-PNW Universal made a mistake by not keeping Dracula Untold as THE 1st film for The Dark Universe as well as letting Alex Kurtzman run it and adding Tom Cruise to The Mummy because Tom Cruise killed it with his ego.

@@stainshield yeah D.U. was a much stronger start for the franchise than the Mummy. I also think introducing Dr Jekyll in the mummy the way they did was a mistake.

@@KS-PNW When they did The Mummy, they should've had it set in Egypt instead of having it in Iraq and England. Also, I would've gone for either Sam Worthington or Justin Long instead of Tom Cruise, because people didn't want him in The Mummy which was why they wanted Brendan Fraser back. As for Dr. Jekyll, they should've kept Russell Crowe a secret and had him appear at The End as leader of Prodigium. Dracula Untold did a better job by having it set in Romania in the 15th Century and then in the 21st Century in England.

@@stainshield I agree with you 100% , hadn't thought of Sam Worthington but he would have been much better that T.C.

Yesss!! I’ve even watch low budget , second tier vampire movies and no compares ! I will say this the Dracula on amc was a decent series however !

Yessir!!! It's the best vampire movie by far !!!

​@@favoford5408Never watched it. Is it any good?

If this is the best vampire movie you’ve seen your watch list must be terrible

@@Sacration oh yes so much potential to the story line they could of went anywhere with the script! They made Dracula the anti hero, his powers were unique from other depictions and his origins of how he came to be was controversial and original in its own way… check it out!

I know a lot of people that have woke fatigue not superhero fatigue.

​@@angfirefighterSTOP using woke as an insult. It's racist and smears the original meaning from the Black community. STOP IT. If the issue is LGBTQ or race swapping or something SAY THAT 😐

@@angfirefighter they are unfortunately kinda entangled rn and I don't see that changing since Disney owns the majority of Superhero IPs.

Agree

​@@angfirefighterplease define woke

This quote lives in my head

Reminds me of Hellsing

Indeed. Sometime, something extreme is needed for human to push us to changes the course. The question is who are willingly to be the black sheep of the family. Ready to be condemned and outcast so others especially the love one can sails to a better places.

Wars, as ugly as they were, have pushed humans for better technologies and advancement. It's weird but humans in crisis, created remarkable things.

It's still makes me mad when the priests outs vlad fr being what he is and everyone acts like he's evil but he tells them"do you all think your alive because of your prayers because of god no the only reason your alive is because of what i did what i made myself to protect all of you and this is your thanks" cause honestly he's right crying and praying doesn't do or change anything in the world and to those who are to ignorate to accept just keep sitting in the corner with your coloring book cause adult talking the only thing that makes changes in the world is actions

I even liked the mummy movie. alot of people didn't but I did. the one with Tom cruise.

@@drewmyers3916 agreed it get too much hate. I wish we could’ve seen Javier Bardem’s Frankenstein’s monster

People actually liked them. Unlike the nonsense they put out now.

Yep, and that's also why he was straight forward and honest with Vlad from the start, because he knew that he had to develop an acquittance on respect instead of lies and deceit, so that Vlad couldn't say he tricked him. He chose Vlad specifically because he figured he was the type of person that he needed in the future. It seems like the master vampire was spending the whole time preparing himself for the immortal game. Building up wealth and hierarchies and followers, and doing so in secret to the point Vlad never even noticed him once in the centuries. So I think it's to hint that revenge is not going to be as easy as simply summoning the demon and doing some spells, and that maybe even the demon themself is just a middle man doing a greater powers bidding. I think where they were going with it, was that it was all actually god in the end, and that the devil was just gods minion so god could play the good guy, when in reality there was a duality to god. So he wasn't looking to get revenge on the demon, or on the devil, but to take on god himself, and maybe not to destroy him, but to instead find him and make god listen to him, to change the way the universe works for the better, to try to get through to god. I think he figures that god is just an old entity somewhere that may have his own motivations, but may also ultimately be flawed motivations, except god can't see it, because he's well you know....god. So the master vampire essentially wants to make god notice him, by dismantling many of the systems god put into place, starting with demons, who are ultimately just doing what god wants them to do. So the whole second movie would be more like heaven and hell being one in the same, a single kingdom, with hell being the outer village, and heaven being the castle. Of course, how they actually go about physically going there to do that, if physically at all, is a question, but it might all be closer than people think, just like that witch lady kind of disappeared off into a different realm. So my guess is that heaven and hell actually exist simultaneously on earth, but are kind of in their own pocket dimension that bleeds over into ours. I think the reason why the master vampire realizes how things really work, is because he might have glimpsed it from the demon, and having all that time in that cave to ponder with nothing else to occupy his mind, he had a long long time to just sit and ponder things about the nature of reality and man and god and the devil, and came to one simply conclusion: The only way god could allow these demons to exist, is because they are doing his bidding, because nothing in the universe it without its place that god has determined to be so, and so the source of all suffering and wrong and evil, must be god himself. And I think that's where they were ultimately going if there was a second movie. The goal was to find their way to meet god face to face.

He was also excellent in Strike Back. He is overall an epic actor top of the shelf.

Lord lannister

And he's nearly dead.

​@@brazthagod5840 Is he alright? What's his health like nowadays?

​@@brazthagod5840Makes it even better

Can't he get out at night even...??

You do realize that Gaius Ceasar and Caligula were two different Emporers right?

@@mrgreenbudz37 You do realize there were multiple Gaius Ceasar's, right? His full name was Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

@@FerretJohn He was also killed in 41, so it's sort of a dead giveaway.

If you’ve never read “I Strahd” you should read it. It’s an amazing Vampire story.

B&W, what???

B&W was before your time. It stands for Black and White movies.@@fishertheadore6095

For the fist time 😂😂😂😂😂 behave will ya

​@@fishertheadore6095 sure he's referring to a movie called blood & wine

I wonder if it was her then, not him that the master wanted revenge upon?

@@tracynorth2275 I also think it was the Baba Yaga who tricked the master vampire.

This sounds like the plot of the game Castlevania.

​@@joseph32jkwhich one the mirror of fate storyline or og

@@cyrustvirus1224 Mirror of fate. I bet the producers are a fan of the game or inspired by it. That bat bending scene is too damn cool.

The mistake was trying to make this a monster universe franchise, which they did try, but all the movies that tie into this all flopped such as Tom Cruises Mummy, Benicio's Wolfman. They should just focus on stand alone sequels.

​@@demo2382 I'm still waiting for the games to begin!!!

@@demo2382 well, they could have made it into a monster universe, with the Dracula movie setting it up, then a Frankenstein movie, and going from there. The mistake was tom cruise being the main role in a monster movie. The dude was going to ruin it and he did

gonna disagree with you here. Gary Oldman did the best Dracula performance imo.

@@orbitalsummer fair enough but I also can't agree I love this version on Dracula. He is a real badass!

Ghost Rider

I thought so at first but then thought how could he defeat a demon? I’d have to go w/ that witch thingy

​@@WeCube1898hah

​@@TBSoHonorable Ask the church for help, they almost always deal with demonic things.

Maybe it's Judas?

The sequel didn't happen because not enough people spent money to see it in the theatres so the movie company didn't even make there money back so they scrapped it

​@@cypresshillfan420 Not true, studios produce woke failure after failure that result in millions in losses, but continue making additions to failed series. The studio just doesn't care.

​@@youtubecensorship842 I agree with both of you. Sadly, it didn't do as well as it should which....that alone baffled me. The story was great. The lore inside the story was great and had potential. And the special efx was great too. So why didn't it do well?? Was it marketing or something?? Who knows. They didn't make as much money therefore couldn't bother to make a sequel, scared that it might not do well. I guess because by Hollywood standards, it's rare that a sequel (it does and has happened numerous times) does way better than the first movie. BUT there's PLENTY of bullsh*t movies that get made and you're thinking how in the flying hell did it get a sequel???

@@MelaninCosplay I don't think it did well because there was already a mummy movie. Hell, a whole mummy trilogy, and the last one of those was like "Wut?" I remember not giving a fuck about the The Mummy again, like "Why is this coming out again?" Then I saw it and just Russell Crowe as Jekyll and Hyde was cool as shit, IMO and totally redeemed my outlook. But also other shit threw me off about it as well, like mind control spiders and the mercury or whatever they pumped into her to keep her subdued being puked up for her to get back to normal. Just kind of a weird story all over the place that I guess people saw in theaters and didn't really feel hyped about enough to tell their friends or family to go see, y'know?

@@youtubecensorship842 bro used the word woke as an argument opinion invalid. How about you give us some stats or at least the name of the films lmao

Bleeding effect? :D Assassins Creed? our DNA and blood is the same. So we are vampires? heh

Yep, everyone he fed on, he got their memories, which would give him information about their experiences and things they knew of the world outside.

UK here.. have to agree. i am new to youtube, well having my own channel, usually used the family one, house hold. found him the other day and i have to admit, i have only disagreed with him once, and its about this master vampire. felt silly because when i saw his first video on this movie. he actually said what i had been saying. was on about the strongest vampires. i was saying how he only gave Vlad but a taste of his powers. so he must be stong on another level lol..

100% agree

W comment

Ikr. Iv always loved franchises and IPs with extensive lore to them. Same with video games and comics. I love that shit reading all the different lores and backstories

And holy shit, he reached 100k subscribers already! I remembered it was less the last time I checked.

That is a really cool theory and very believable

​@@Wokytoxin madness of King George He had a disease called "Porphyria." You should look this trait up. It does affect 1/100 people

and Vrykolakas is inspired by slavic folklore, which inspired creation of Dracula in first place

Say what you will but the original vampire is Cain. Brother of Abel. God cursed him to roam the earth immortal so that he would never forget the sin of killing his brother. Then, Babylonian deminology connects him to Lilith, the first wife of Adam, with whom he had children (demons), and used his blood magic to create new vampires. Vampire is a Serbian word and the first documented Vampire was called Arnaut Pavle, in Medvedja near Trstenik. You also have Petar Blagojević from Kisiljevo, also Serbia. Jure Grando is from Croatia, the village of Kringa near Istria. Vrykolakas is an undead being like a zombie. He did not drink blood or feed on human blood. He was something like an evil spirit that brings bad luck if you invoke his call at night. That word essentially means “wolf’s hair.” It's a Serbo-Croatian word that the Greeks took because they didn't have a single vampire-like creature in their mythology. They had a Lamia, but she was a demonic creature and had no human form. H.F. Tozer dispelled this superstition and said that this creature in Greece was more like a zombie and was neither a blood-drinking werewolf nor a humanoid vampire.

​@corvusonis7974 the ancient Greek was called strix, which the Slavic strigoi was based.

another fun fact: the master vampire was Originally played by Charlie Cox, and it was his version of the character that was supposed to be Caligula also in the trailer you can see the original footage that details him being Caligula including the fact that the cave was Originally a Roman Temple

@@marlonclark-pp9wgthank goodness we didn’t get Charlie Cox for that role. Would’ve been HORRID.

@@_davidboxing i agree Charles Dance was the better choice but i am curious to see how Charlie Cox played the role

The witcher series has baba yaga in it

John Wick haunted him with a Pencil 😅

They're making a sequel

​@@MrGmac1234Wait fr?

@@lilblock3564 Complete rumour, nothing confirmed, I just checked imdb and a few other pages. I so wish it was true, but all rumours at this stage.

@@MrGmac1234 Source - 'Trust me bro'

​@@ozijak That sucks I was excited about it for a minute

Soooooo true

Well acted and terrific dialog but also probably historically accurate as a Roman would be able to communicate with a Transylvania or Wallachian that speaks Romanian.

@@anthonyoer4778 Agreed. To me, the best stories that end up becoming popular franchises are usually the ones loaded up with intriguing history and lore. Humans by nature are a curious and questing race. We can’t help asking questions and when we get genuinely interested in something we wanna know all there is to know about it.

@@AtamskArchadian Well said my friend 👍👍👍💯💯💯

Charles Dance is a treat to any movie

The action was just horrible, you can't give your protagonist godlike powers and have any sense of tension.

Would love to see the Directors uncut version of this film!

I like where you're going with this.......

Werewolves were traditionally seen as protectors who fought the undead. The idea that they were evil didn't come about until Christianity spread into eastern Europe.

It's interesting how people of the past figured things out without having a proper understanding of how they worked. Particularly, herbal remedies and the like. Before refrigeration, people would put silver coins in milk to keep it from spoiling. Silver is used today in several medical applications, such as topical creams for burn victims, due to its antibiotic properties.

also, in this version of the film the master vampire was originally played by Charlie Cox

@@marlonclark1896 they didn't want someone named "Cox" playing the Master, for fear people would call him the Master Bator... I'll see myself out

I had originally thought that the master vampire might be Dante Alighieri.

That could be accurate. Not to mention striga were also known for feeding on the life force of children in folklore.

I think she could be Locusta. Locusta was someone that was an expert in poisons. She is also said to have been from Gaul which is pretty close to the areas with Baba Yaga folklore. Maybe in this universe she also knew some form of black magic. She might have originally considered Nero to become a vampire but found him to be unworthy. She managed to fake her death like Caligula and they managed to make a deal with the demon turning her into Baba Yaga and Caligula into the master vampire.

This is a good direction to go, if only Universal would see it and go against it

"It's possible he was still human for some of the early years in the cave, because Gaius was fairly young when he died, or maybe the curse aged him as well as deforming him" Bare in mind that he would have spent months, if not years between meals sometimes just waiting for someone or something to stumble into that cave. Being unable to die but starving would not be good for anyone - obviously freedom agreed with him though.

It’s my all time fav it gets vampire abilities right and I loved Luke evans as Dracula’s he’s my ideal depiction of Dracula

I've heard that he asked to recover the role, but there was no plan to make a second because the first didn't fair well on first release. Which honestly, I didn't see it in theatres. It came in a three pack movie set with The Seventh Son and and I think The Huntsman. Wasn't until far beyond release date that I found this gem.

Fun fact the lore that instilled silver being the weakness of nearly all demonic/night creature Is tied to judis betraying Jesus christ for 30 pieces of silver. From that day god cursed( or blessed depending on your perspective) all silver in the world of God to be lethal to the unholy, and evil

Correct, and games kept that concept for some but not all. Silver is always said to work on Werewolves but some games included it for Ghost weaknesses like The Elder scrolls series. If you walked into a place with Ghost without Silver especially early in the game you were getting whooped as you couldn't harm the ghost at all. Silver blades and magic or better material than silver worked (better as in enchanted weapons or magic weapons and ones from different plains of existence).

Like Elder Scrolls IV you can't hurt incorporeal undead without at least silver weapons or better unless it's enchanted.

Witcher style

Maybe Baba Yaga teeths are made of silver instead of regular metal, so she could fight Master Vampire somehow.

Because it was part of the Universal's Monster Universe in the 2010s - as the article pointed out, the failure of the other movies (the Mummy in particular) are why it all got axed.

@@marchuitt oh thats very interesting

@@marchuitt That's crazy... Very unfortunate.

Ikr, this channel is the best love it ❤

Oh wow, did *not* know The Dracula Tape had any sequels! TYSVM for that heads up! Awesome book. If you’re into something that’s a bit more involved with the period nuances and counter-factual history due to Dracula’s involvement w/ Queen Victoria (Van Helsing and the others failing to drive him out of England), I definitely recommend Anno Dracula. It doesn’t focus on Vlad himself, but the world building of a Victorian England being slowly and politely overtaken by vampirism?

@@shawnpanzegraf5642 Shawn, I think that you will like "An Old Friend of the Family". If and when you read it, please feel free to drop me a line and tell me what you thought of it. Have a good night. And you are most welcome.

That's who he's supposed to be. 41ad was the year Caligula was murdered, or at least that's the official story 😉

Julius Caesar the Dictator wasn't an emperor, but Caligula was.

@@isabelrodriguezsjolund9701 exactly.

@KS-mr6tf His murderers may have been Caius Cassius Chaerea and Cornelius Sabinus tribunus🤔

I started to comment on this as well. I decided to see if anyone already had first. That was a pretty believable origin in that movie as well

I will do it

I hope he does as well.. *Baba Yaga* is also known to another character which will be under the Marvel Cinematic Universe.. you know who it is? *John Wick* .. *Dr Steven Strange* *Punisher* *Ghost Rider* *Cloak and Dagger* *Wolf-Man* *The mummy* *The monster Frankenstein* *Van Helsing* *Blade* *Willamina Harker* (a bit of a reach..)

​@Glen Ros I heard it somewhere that he'd been "confirmed" to be the Roman emperor Caligula, but of course that doesn't mean much even if it was the intention because it never made it into the movie, which is a shame

Lizard people control our government and the Earth is hollow.

So I'm shown there should be a reply from someone here yet, nothing. Does that mean the comment or the person is shadow banned? Or a comment deleted but still showing notification?