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

         

    

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

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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