American Steven wanders into town near Dracula's castle. Villagers preyed upon. He helps Dr. Van Helsing fight Dracula who kidnapped Carla. Dracula has supernatural powers like fireballs. Attempts to kill him before it's too late.
A modern-day updating of the Dracula legend that finds Steven, a good-looking American hero devastated by the death of his girlfriend, wandering through Europe and looking for happiness. A car accident leads him to a small town sitting literally in the shadow of Dracula's castle. The frightened villagers have been preyed upon for generations. Steven is stunned to discover Carla, the innkeeper's daughter looks identical to his dead girlfriend. When she begs for his assistance against the vampire, he agrees to help them. Together with Dr. Van Helsing, the most famous vampire killer of all time, he attacks Dracula using a variety of ingenious weapons against the supernatural. Dracula shows unusual powers that defeat them at every turn, including fireballs and lightning from his fingertips. He is constantly on a search for blood to satisfy his centuries-old bickering brides. When Dracula kidnaps Carla right out of her bed, Steven and Van Helsing desperately try to kill him before it is too late.—Anonymous
NOTE: Dracula is played by three different actors [Ernest M. Garcia, Chaba Hrotko, and Tom McGowan]. Whenever Dracula is in need of blood, his body "swells" (instead of shriveling) and he starts to look gross and bloated, hence the need for different actors.
Prologue: In the year 1577, a Romanian hero, Vlad Dracul theImpaler, drove the Turkish armies out of Transylvania on the point ofspikes. He began to use this punishment on all of his enemies. He evenimpaled Saxon merchants, then sat down to a meal of raw meat as hisdinner. He became one of the bloodiest rulers in the world, and when hedied in the year 1599, he was buried in a well preserved casket in thecellar of a castle in the town of Snagov. The poor Romanian people werecursed because of him. They suffered hunger and horrible sickness,including the bubonic plague. For 300 years after his death, they suffereduntil they could stand no more.
1900 Romania. Dracula has had it with 300 years of whining Romanians,so he flies his casket right out of its resting place and into a newcastle in far-off Morovia. The first thing he does when he gets there isto save the virgin bride Sonia [Talia Botone] from being raped and murdered by KingLudwig. Dracula kills Ludwig then turns Sonia into a vampire.
Present Day, California. Steven Hillman [Denny Sachen], distraught over the death offiance Julia while water-skiing on the Colorado River, wishes on a fallingstar that Julia was still alive. At that very same moment, in far offMorovia, that very meteor lands on top of the casket of a girl beingburied following a drowning accident, and she is miraculously reawakened.By some coincidence, Steven decides to drown his sorrows by taking a tripto Morovia. For several days, he wanders the streets of Prague, seeingJulia out of every window and in every glass of booze, until he finallydecides to leave the city and get on to Morovia. While driving on one ofthe mountain roads, he swerves to avoid hitting a truck and goes over intoa ravine. Injured and bleeding, he makes his way back to the road and intothe small village of Dubova where he stumbles into the local pub andpasses out just after seeing the pubkeeper's daughter, Carla [Kerry Dustin], who is thespitting image of Julia.
Meanwhile, Dracula is out hunting by the river. When one of thevillage girls takes her laundry down to pound on the rocks, Draculagets her. The next morning, the men of the village (pubkeeper Ivan, BakerFuksa, Dentist Hoble, Father Stanislav, and Butcher Wurst) are sittingaround the pub discussing how to get rid of Dracula, who has apparentlybeen plaguing their village for the past 90 years. Father Stanislav knowsDoctor Van Helsing, the world's leading expert on vampires, and he offersto summon his help. That evening, Van Helsing [Bruce Glover] arrives. As the men sitaround eating and drinking [which is all they ever seem to do], a huntercomes into the inn. He orders a steak "blood rare" and a glass of redwine, which piques Van Helsing's curiosity. In order to test the hunter,Van Helsing doctors his toast with garlic. When the hunter takes a bite ofhis toast and angrily leaves the pub, Van Helsing is certain that theyhave found Dracula.
Now to destroy him. Van Helsing has brought with him the ancient bookHow to Kill Dracula. With Steven's help, Van Helsing plans on goingthrough each of the methods until one works. Method #1 involves firing asilver bullet through Dracula's heart. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.When Dracula phones Dentist Hoble needing some work done on one of hisfangs, Van Helsing puts plan #2 in motion. He has Hoble pull out the fang.Hoble is later found dead with one hole in his neck. Van Helsing surmisesthat the silver bullet didn't work because Dracula's heart floats aroundinside his chest. So, for attempt #3, Van Helsing has the blacksmithfashion a five-pronged stake, five prongs being more likely to pierce thefloating heart. When Van Helsing plunges the five-pronged stake intoDracula's chest, however, Dracula pulls it out and tosses it out thewindow. Plan #4 involves blowing up Dracula with a hand grenade. AsDracula stands in front of his window playing the violin, Steven aims thegrenade through the window with a slingshot. The grenade goes off butmanages only to destroy Dracula's violin. Dracula retaliates by hurlingfireballs at them.
Meanwhile, Steven and Carla have become engaged. That night as theysleep, Dracula comes in the window and carries off Carla to his castlewhere he turns her into a vampire. Not to worry, though. Van Helsing andSteven are on their way with Plan #5, this time to challenge Dracula to aduel. While Dracula and Steven duel, Van Helsing manages to pin Dracula tothe wall with a spear and cut off his head. While Dracula reattaches hishead, Carla tries to entice Steven, but Van Helsing pulls him away andthey escape the castle. Some hours later, as Dracula plays his new violinfrom the window and Sonia, Carla, and Dana dance in the garden, VanHelsing sets Plan #6 in motion. Steven is to climb to the roof of thecastle, just above Dracula's window, and pour oil over him while VanHelsing shoots Dracula with a flaming arrow. As Dracula's window glows inflames, the three vampiresses go after Van Helsing and Steven.
Steven wakes up. Carla is at his side. She explains that he's been ina coma and had a bad dream. Hah. It was no dream. Van Helsing and Stevenhave been turned into vampires. While Dracula and Van Helsing play pianoand violin respectively, Steven dances with Carla, and Sonia and Danadance with each other. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
