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The conflict between survival and virtuous sacrifice is at the heart of Dracula Untold, the surprisingly subversive reboot of the classic vampire franchise. Astonishingly, we are taken to Eastern Europe in the mid-fifteenth century, when Europeans knew what it was to be occupied, when Vienna itself was besieged by the armies of the Mohammedans, and when thousands of European children were brutally kidnapped and forced to serve as Janissary slave soldiers against their own blood. There is no pro forma condemnation of the Crusades, the Church, or the inherent hatefulness Europeans possess through their sheer existence–we get a straightforward tale of an occupied population groaning under a foreign tyrant from the East.