Dracula kills victims. Dr. Seward tries to stop him. Dr. Frankenstein brings Dracula back to life, using his monster. Dracula and a female vampire terrorize the town. Seward is attacked by Frankenstein's monster.
Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of the earth. Armed with a hammer and a wooden stake, he arrives at Castle Dracula and duly dispatches the vampire Count. Next day, however, Dr. Frankenstein arrives with his assistant, Morpho, and a large crate containing the monster. Using the blood of a pub singer who has been abducted by his creation, the doctor brings Dracula back to life and uses him for his own ends. The Count and a female vampire continue to terrorise the town, so Dr Seward once again sets out for Castle Dracula. Unfortunately, he is attacked by the Frankenstein monster and left for dead. Amira, a gypsy, rescues him and summons up a werewolf to do battle with the forces of evil...—A Franco fan
Doctor Jonathan Seward [Alberto Dalbés] runs the Halic Sewardis Klinik (SewardSanitarium) while doing a little vampire hunting on the side. When heexamines the body of a girl who has recently died, he notices the twotelltale puncture wounds on her neck. Looks like Drácula [Howard Vernon] is on the prowlagain, so Dr Seward pays a visit to Castle Drácula and runs a stakethrough the King Vampire's heart. Drácula turns into a bat and lays dead inhis coffin. Not long afterwards, a deaf-mute wanders into town looking for CastleDrácula (hard to miss the huge castle at the top of a mountain justoutside of town). The deaf-mute is Morpho [Luis Barboo], lab assistant to Doctor Raniervon Frankenstein [Dennis Price] who has also come to town with his monster and a grandplan to awaken Drácula and create an Army of Shadows that will serve himin his attempts to take over the world.
He begins by awakening his monster, whom he then sends on a task tokidnap a French cabaret singer [Josyane Gibert] so that he can use her blood to awakenDrácula, which he does by giving the bat a bath in the blood. Poof!Drácula is back, although he's more like a zombie now that he's a prisonerof Dr Frankenstein. Frankenstein orders Drácula to be fruitful andmultiply and, so, leads him to his first victim--María, a flaky patient atSeward's sanitarium. When Seward notices the two puncture wounds on María's neck, herealizes that Drácula is at it again and heads back to the castle. On theway, however, he is met by the Frankenstein monster, who beats him up andleaves him for dead. Fortunately, Seward is found by a band of gypsies,who take him home so that Amira [Genevieve Deloir], apparently their resident witch andpsychic, can care for him. Amira isn't feeling too good herself, havingbeen recently bitten by one of Drácula's vampiresses. She knows that hertime is short, but she explains to the doctor how the gypsies have beenslaves to Drácula and they're tired of it. She knows that Seward tried todestroy Drácula once before and impresses upon him to try again and, indoing so, free her people. This time, she's going to help by conjuring upa werewolf during the next full moon.
At the next full moon, Seward is feeling much better, but Amira isworse. She has only enough strength left to remind him that the werewolfwill come this night and that he must kill Drácula and the other evilthings and so free the gypsies. Suddenly, the werewolf's howl can be heardcoming from Castle Drácula. While the werewolf and the monster fight itout, Dr Frankenstein decides that Drácula has somehow betrayed him andplunges a spear through his heart. Seward gathers up the gypsies, and theyall race up to the castle. The Frankenstein monster, bloodied from hisfight with the werewolf, returns to his own coffin and is electrocuted byhis creator. By the time Seward and the gypsies get there, both Dráculaand Maria have been reduced to skeletons. Seward holds up a crucifix andthanks God for His divine help. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl]
