
1872, In Hyde Park, London, Lawrence Van Helsing confronts the Vampire Count Dracula. The Count is impaled on a broken carriage wheel and crumbles to ashes, Van Helsing also dies in the struggle. At Van Helsing's funeral, a young man inters the ashes of Count Dracula in unhallowed ground.
1972. In Chelsea's swinging Caver Club, Johnny Alucard offers his young friends the ultimate trip a date with the Devil. They go to St Bartolph's, a desanctified church by the river. One of Johnny's gang is Jessica Van Helsing, granddaughter of the famous anthropologist Lorimer Van Helsing. At the church, Johnny offers a girl call Laura a baptism of blood.
During the ceremony, Count Dracula is revived, and later kills Laura. When her body is discovered, drained of blood, Inspector Murray visits Professor Van Helsing, and learns about the black mess from Jessica.
Johnny lures another girl to St Bartolph's. She is killed, and Dracula gives Johnny the power of the Vampire. When Jessica is captured, Van Helsing goes to Johnny, forcing him into the bathroom with reflected sunlight and killing him in running water.
Van Helsing find Jessica at St Bartolph's in Dracula's thrall. He splash Count Dracula with Holy Water, and forces him into a pit lined with stakes. Dracula is reduced to ashes.
The End
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Cast
Christopher Lee - Count Dracula
Peter Cushing - Professor Van Helsing
Stephanie Beacham - Jessica Van Helsing
Christopher Neame - Johnny Alucard
Michael Coles - Inspector Murray
Marsha Hunt - Gaynor
Caroline Munro - Laura
Janet Key - Anna
William Ellis - Joe Mitcham
Philip Miller - Bob
Michael Kitchen - Greg
David Andrews - Detective Sergeant
Lally Bowers - Matron
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Director - Alan Gibson
Producer - Josephine Douglas
Screenplay - Don Houghton
Music - Michael Vickers
Special Effects -Les Bowie
Make-Up - Jill Carpenter
95 Minutes - Colour - 1972
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