BloodRayne(2005)

Sebastian (Matt Davis) and Vladimir (Michael Madsen) eventually capture Rayne (Kristanna Loken) after she has absorbed the Eye of Beliar (a talisman that renders a vampire immune to holy water) and take her to the island fortress that serves as the headquarters of the local chapter of their organization, the Brimstone Society. After she is put in a cell, Katarin (Michelle Rodriguez) approaches Sebastian and Vladimir and informs them that she has received word that their society’s chapter in Rome has been completely annihilated, leaving their chapter as the last remaining one in existence, and what’s worse, Kagan (Ben Kingsley) has come into possession of the Rib of Beliar (a talisman that renders a vampire immune to the cross). Rayne tells Sebastian, Vladimir, and Katarin that she seeks to bring Kagan to ruin just as much as they do, and she gives them her backstory regarding Kagan impregnating her human mother with her and then killing her mother several years later before her eyes when she refused to turn Rayne over to him. Convinced of her sincerity, Sebastian and Vladimir go into her cell and free her from her chains, and Vladimir offers her a chance to stay with them and train with them so she will be a better match for Kagan, and she accepts. However, Katarin refuses to trust Rayne, and she criticizes Vladimir privately for this and accuses him of going against the very laws and teachings he swore by. She then tells him that their society is growing weak and she doubts that they will survive an attack from Kagan’s forces.

Over the next several days, Rayne trains with the Brimstone members and improves her combat skills, and an attraction grows between her and Sebastian that results in them having sex one night. The Brimstone Society soon comes to see her as a new hope for the survival of their organization, but Katarin is still unconvinced, and she soon writes a letter to Viscount Eldrich (Billy Zane), her father and former Brimstone member who has become a vampire. In it, she tells him that she agrees with his belief that Brimstone is lost, and after she finishes it, she has a messenger deliver the letter to him. Meanwhile, Kagan orders his army of thralls to scour the land for the last remaining chapter of the society, and he instructs them to kill anyone who stands in their way and bring Rayne to him.

Domastir (Will Sanderson) – Kagan’s right-hand man and commander of his thralls – eventually confronts Eldrich at his home, where he tosses him not only the message that Katarin had sent to him, but also the head of her messenger. He demands for Eldrich to tell him where Brimstone’s headquarters are or else suffer the consequences, but Eldrich – who ambitiously seeks to put an end to Kagan so he can become the King of the Vampires – instead tells him to spare his daughter, dethrone Kagan, and join him in a “more colorful reign.” Domastir draws out his sword, and after angrily telling him that he can have Kagan’s gratitude or Kagan’s wrath, he again demands for him to reveal Brimstone’s location to him. Eldrich asks him if he really expects him to betray his own daughter, but Domastir replies that he doesn’t see him as the paternal type, then demands for the map to the fortress. While this happens, Vladimir tells Katarin that he will be heading to the mainland soon with Rayne to get various supplies and food for Brimstone, but she tells him that she doesn’t want Rayne going with him because she is a danger to him and Kagan is surely out looking for her. To appease her, he tells her that he will take Sebastian with him as well.

Vladimir, Sebastian, and Rayne go to the mainland and first pay a visit to Iancu (Michael Pare), an ally of the Brimstone Society who supplies vampire-killing weapons, and they take what they need from him. While they are gone, Domastir and the thralls show up at Brimstone’s headquarters and slaughter everyone there (it can be safely assumed that Domastir got a hold of the map to the fortress from Eldrich and then killed him afterward). One of the Brimstone members barely survives the assault and goes to the mainland to find Rayne and company and tell them what happened. When Rayne and the others return to their boat, they find the man dying on the ground close by it, and he gives them the news about the assault on the fortress and warns them not to go back there because the enemy’s numbers are too great. When Rayne questions how they found the fortress, he answers that Katarin is responsible for that, having seen her kill an innocent woman under the society’s protection after she refused her suggestion to surrender to Domastir just before Domastir and his forces docked at the fortress. He then dies moments later. Vladimir tells Sebastian that Kagan is trying to lure what is left of Brimstone to him so he can destroy the society once and for all, and if it is a fight that he and his forces want, then that is exactly what they are going to get.

Later that night, Rayne makes ready to head back to the fortress alone while Sebastian and Vladimir are asleep, but Sebastian wakes up and stops her. Rayne tells him that she is going back alone; Domastir and his army came to the fortress looking for her and the Eye of Beliar, and none of those people had to die, and she tells Sebastian that he will die as well if she stays with him. She then informs him that she is going to find the Heart of Beliar (the most important talisman because it renders a vampire immune to sunlight), which is located somewhere in the fortress because she can “hear it”, and she rationalizes that, if she has two of the talismans, then she will stand a chance against Kagan when they meet. She then says goodbye to Sebastian, but before she leaves on the boat, they exchange her cross necklace with Sebastian’s Brimstone Society necklace. In the morning, Sebastian and Vladimir ride off towards Kagan’s castle, intending to provide backup for Rayne when she goes there because they know that she cannot face Kagan alone.

Rayne returns to Brimstone’s headquarters and looks over the carnage caused by the villains, but then she is forced to take cover when she hears Domastir coming into the courtyard with the thralls. One of the thralls tells Domastir that they were unable to find Rayne, nor is she among the dead, and Domastir replies that perhaps she was never here. He then decrees that they are going to return to Kagan, believing that Rayne might be heading to his castle now. After they leave, Rayne goes down into the caves beneath the fortress to find the Heart, and she follows its voice down to an underground pool of water, where she finds Katarin down there along with three surviving society members (we find out that Katarin’s grandfather placed the Heart somewhere in the pool). Katarin explains that she allowed all of the others to die as an act of survival; she intends to kneel before no one, nor sit here under Vladimir’s command and await death, and she has no interest in letting Kagan take away their freedom, so she intends to retrieve the Heart and have it go to Eldrich. As she removes some of her clothing so she can swim better, she orders the surviving members to secure the entrance to the cave until she returns, then dives into the pool. Once the three men leave, Rayne follows after Katarin, and she attacks her just after she finds the box containing the Heart in the ground below. Katarin stabs her in the stomach and swims away with the box, but Rayne pursues her back to the shore, and she kills her by snapping her neck. She then drinks some of her blood to heal her stab wound before leaving with the Heart.

Rayne reaches Kagan’s castle after nightfall, and she tells the guards at the main entrance that she seeks an audience with Kagan and has brought the Heart for him. When Domastir appears, she presents him with the box containing the talisman, but she gets taken to the dungeon immediately afterwards and gets put into a cell. Domastir brings the box to Kagan in his throne room, and soon, he has Domastir order all of the thralls out of the room so he can start preparing for the ceremony that will see him absorb all of the talismans and become powerful enough to rule the world, and he intends to sacrifice Rayne to get the Eye of Beliar from her. After seeing Rayne being taken inside the castle, Sebastian and Vladimir decide that their only way in is through the front door, so they launch an attack on the main entrance. However, they are captured by Kagan’s thralls and thrown into the dungeon themselves. Domastir comes down to the dungeon and tells the thralls to scour the castle to see if the duo have brought any reinforcements with them, and he then turns his attention to Rayne and tells her that she will be staying here until the ceremony, where they will extract the Eye from her.

Later on, Rayne hears the ritual beginning, and she tells Sebastian and Vladimir that, while she is not foolish enough to think that she will prevail against Kagan, she won’t stop fighting for a second. Vladimir declares that neither will he and Sebastian. Just then, Kagan’s thralls come down, bind Rayne’s hands, and take her upstairs to the throne room, and once she is there, she gets bound down to the altar there. Sebastian and Vladimir then pull a trick on the guard watching them so he will open the door to their cell, and after he does, they knock him out and retrieve their weapons, then make their way to the throne room, where they start to kill off the thralls and Kagan’s holy men. While this happens, Kagan opens up the box that the Heart of Beliar is supposed to be in and discovers that it is empty; it turns out that Rayne had absorbed the Heart before she showed up. He then takes out the Rib of Beliar and tucks it away in his left shirtsleeve before taking up his sword and joining the battle. Soon after, Sebastian gets up to the altar and cuts Rayne loose, and after he gives her her twin tonfa swords, she joins him and Vladimir in slaying Kagan’s men.

Around this time, Vladimir is seized by two thralls while he is clashing with Domastir, and Kagan fatally wounds him by running his sword through his heart. Sebastian also gets fatally wounded when he duels with Domastir, but he manages to kill Domastir by cutting his throat wide open. Rayne then fights Kagan one-on-one, but despite being in possession of two of Beliar’s talismans, Kagan soon overwhelms her and disarms her. He then makes ready to kill her, but fortunately, Sebastian throws a glass bottle full of holy water at him, and though Kagan catches it, Sebastian shoots a crossbow bolt at the bottle to break it open, causing Kagan to get splashed with the water and suffer bad burns. Sebastian then fires another bolt at him, which Kagan also catches and attempts to drive into Rayne’s head, but Rayne manages to turn it around and drive it into Kagan’s heart instead. Kagan decays and dies moments later, and Vladimir dies immediately after he does. Rayne then goes up to Sebastian to check on him, and upon seeing that he is dying, she attempts to bite him and turn him into a vampire so he will be spared from death. However, Sebastian refuses this, telling Rayne that it is just his time to die, and he can die with the satisfaction of knowing that Kagan is finished. He then peacefully passes away.

Rayne walks over to Kagan’s throne and sits in it, and she spends some time silently reflecting on all of the events that have taken place from the start of her circus days to the present day and ultimately gives a slight smile. At dawn, she leaves the castle and rides off into the mountains on her horse towards parts unknown.