195 - Dracula Untold

Your Stupid Minds covers one of the many movies leaving HBO Max at the end of the month in the platform's effort pre-merger to make their streaming service really bad! This one isn't a huge loss though. It's 2014's Dracula Untold! Vlad Drăculea (Luke Evans) is Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania and mostly a good dad and leader, despite some light impaling he's done in the past. Sultan Mehmed II is leader of the Ottoman Empire and eyeing his territory, and also wants to take his son Ingeras (Art Parkinson) as a Janissary, so Vlad meets up with a disgusting vampire he met in a cave (Charles Dance) and strikes a deal with him to borrow his vampire powers for three days so he can kill the entire Turkish army and turn back into a human so long as he doesn't feed. Vlad's wife Mierna (Sarah Gadon) is a little peeved he didn't talk to her first, but eventually is okay with it and he tears through the Turkish army with his bat powers. Can he resist temptation and return to human form, or will he become a vampire forever? Obviously the latter, since Dracula is, like, a thing. So no mystery there.