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Synopsis

While making out with his girlfriend, young Juan DeLorca Jr [Chuck Faulkner] finds adiary written by the boy's deceased Great Uncle Carlos DeLorca. They beginreading the diary together. [The rest of the movie is told in flashback.]

The DeLorca family has been cursed ever since Carlos' grandfather wasinterrupted while conjouring evil spirits. The curse makes each DeLorcason turn into a vampire, and upon the birth of his succeeding son, themother somehow dies. Carlos [ Paul Everett] doesn't want to see that happen to his nephewJuan [Chuck Faulkner], who is beginning to show signs of the curse, so he consults apsychic medium, Madame von Kirst, who assures him that there is a way toend the curse. It involves luring four girls to the DeLorca house andperforming an incantation.

Rich and beautiful Yvonne, [Dolores Heiser] bored and unhappy, decides to take theadvice of Madam von Kirst and move to Florida where she is told a new lifeawaits her. When she and three other girls -- Laura [Jan Sherman], Vickie [Rita Ballard], and Dana [Dolores Starling ]--receive invitations to attend a free tour of the magnificent Casa DeLorca,they all accept. After a delightful guided tour by Carlos DeLorca himself,the girls are invited back the following night for dinner and to meetCarlos' nephew Juan. At the end of dinner, as they are sipping theircognacs, Yvonne passes out (unbeknown to anyone, Juan has drugged hercognac). Carlos suggests that Yvonne spend the night and go home in themorning. Laura has already left to keep a date with her boyfriend, butVickie and Dana agree to stay with Yvonne.

When Laura fails to meet her boyfriend, he comes snooping at theDeLorca house. Laura has actually been abducted by Perro [Bob Letizia], Carlos' mute andretarded ward, and is being held in the cellar where she is tied down onan altar. Carlos is preparing the ritual that will remove the familycurse. Carlos instructs Perro to let no one into the house during theceremony, but Laura's boyfriend knocks out both Perro and Carlos andreleases Laura. Interrupting the ceremony, however, results in the releaseof a mangy-looking ghoul [possessing Perro?] who kills them both. WhenCarlos comes to, he is able to subdue or kill [hard to tell which] theghoul with a crucifix. Meanwhile, someone [Juan, the ghoul, or Perropossessed?] has ripped open Vickie's throat and bitten and turned Danainto a vampire. In defiance of Carlos' wishes, Juan has decided that hewill get Yvonne pregnant in order to keep the DeLorca curse going, so herapes Yvonne while she is still under the influence of the knockout drops.

When Carlos finds out that Yvonne is pregnant, he forces her toremain at the mansion. Yvonne is distraught, threatening to kill herselfrather than bear a cursed baby. Carlos sends for the help of Madam vonKirst, who performs another incantation which will hopefully remove thecurse from the child, although they won't be able to tell whether itworked until the child is born. She also puts a ward on Dana and Juan'scoffins so that they cannot get out.

Seven or eight months pass. [We know this because someone's body --Vickie? Laura? -- is discovered in the woods, and the detective says thatit's been lying there for probably that long.] Yvonne is about ready topop and is having a bad case of cabin fever, having been held prisoner inthe DeLorca house since she first got pregnant. She begs Perro to take herfor a walk outside, and Perro relents. However, on their way downstairs,Perro trips [or did Yvonne push him?], falls, and is knocked out or maybekilled. Yvonne takes refuge in the room where lay Dana and Juan in theircoffins. Dana wakes up and tries to bite Yvonne, but Carlos stops her byramming a broomstick through her back. Juan wakes up and also attempts tofeed on Yvonne, but Yvonne rips down some curtains, frying Juan in thesunlight. Madam von Kirst reads the incantation instructions one last timeand concludes that they have followed every one implicitly and that thechild should be born normal. When they go to give the good news to Yvonne,they find that she has shattered a mirror and stabbed herself in thestomach with one of the shards. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]