Dampyr (2022)

The woman goes into labor, giving birth to a baby named Dampyr aided by three nurses, but she dies of birth complications. The nurses, revealed to be witches, hold back an approaching knight using their magical barrier. The knight is revealed to be the baby's father and he demands to see his son, but the nurses refuse.

In 1992, during the Bosnian War, soldiers led by commander Emil Kurjak are sent to the town of Yorvolak, where they find the whole town has been massacred. A terrified elderly survivor warns them that they must call the Dampyr, before being shot by Kurjak's callous soldier, Stefan. After Kurjak's soldiers were attacked by the vampires, Lazar and Dejan bring the Dampyr to Yorvolak. The Dampyr – revealed to be Harlan Draka, an alcoholic con artist who performs fake exorcisms and is plagued with his recurring nightmares – was reticent about his past as a vampire hunter and denies their existence but was nonetheless forcefully sent out into the streets by Kurjak to act as their bait. Harlan was ambushed by the vampires as they attack the town, but Harlan's blood easily kills them, forcing the vampires to retreat.

Stefan – upset at the prospect of having to fight against vampires – rebel against Kurjak and locks him up inside the church alongside Harlan, and a lone vampire survivor, Tesla Dubcek, save for Harlan's manager and assistant Yuri, who he was reluctantly sent away to Stefan to keep him safe. Confined inside the church, Tesla reveals that she serves but hates Gorka, a Master of the Night—a much more powerful vampire who can create vampires with his bite and resist sunlight. She explains that Harlan is a true Dampyr, the son of the Master of the Night, whose wife that had died of childbirth was a human and warns that Gorka, who sees him as dangerous, will do anything to exterminate him. Harlan senses Gorka's presence, who attacks the soldiers and capture Yuri. Harlan demands her to take him to Gorka. Tesla, who was told by Gorka to observe Harlan, agrees.

Tesla takes the duo to a war-torn Sarajevo where Gorka hides in an old library. Along the way, the two dispatches Kurjak's transformed soldiers, including Lazar and Dejan, using bullets covered in Harlan's blood. However, Gorka telepathically controls Tesla, forcing her to shoot Harlan. After recuperating themselves for the night, Harlan and Kurjak enter Gorka's hideout. Kurjak succumbs to his hallucinations of his deceased son Mikolos, and was taken captive along with Tesla, who Gorka had her captured for interfering with the vampires from feeding a young woman. A vampiric Stefan tortures Tesla and Kurjak, and in response, as they break free from their restraints, Kurjak torched Stefan to death.

Harlan confronts Gorka, and faces against the now vampiric Yuri, but he kills himself by coming into contact with the friend's blood. Harlan was nearly overpowered by Gorka, but upon hearing the voice from a dark knight telling him to believe in his own blood, he develops new powers that allow him to resist Gorka's abilities and kills him by strangling him with his blood-stained hands.

With Gorka's death, the three enter a room with a book containing the faces of several Masters of the Night, including Draka, Harlan's father, realizing that their war against the vampires is just beginning. In the pre-credits scene, Draka visits the grave of Harlan's birth mother, Velma. He is then visited by the three witches, who tell him that the Dampyr has made his choice. However, Draka warns that his son will soon be consumed by their thirst for blood.