it's an origin story. he was a hero until he wasn't. he made a tricky deal with evil to defeat his supremely powerful enemies, fell into the trap, freed the demon and became evil forever. probably one of the oldest stories: good goes bad.
"Oh I unleashed an ancient evil but at least I saved my country's children from the Turks" would have been a great ending, but IIRC they had Dracula kill all of the evil vampires at the end and kind of undermined it.
This is the plot of Dracula Untold and probably a bunch of other things
Fuckin revisionists
it's an origin story. he was a hero until he wasn't. he made a tricky deal with evil to defeat his supremely powerful enemies, fell into the trap, freed the demon and became evil forever. probably one of the oldest stories: good goes bad.
"Oh I unleashed an ancient evil but at least I saved my country's children from the Turks" would have been a great ending, but IIRC they had Dracula kill all of the evil vampires at the end and kind of undermined it.
Honestly I think the better ending would have been that what he had done was so evil that the Turks were better than what he had become