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Synopsis
Dracula
It was the year 1462. Constantinople had fallen- Muslim Turks were over
running Eastern Europe, killing and pillaging as they came. The Romanian
Knight, Count Dracula of the Order of the Dragon, knew he must join the holy
war and defend the Church and his people, leaving his new bride behind.
While he is gone, the Turks shoot an arrow, over the castle walls with a
message declaring Dracula’s death. When he returns to find that his bereaved
wife has drowned herself, he denounces the Church, and while crazed, joins
with the demons and becomes a Vampire.
400 years later- Count Dracula, now a wealthy landowner, calls upon
Jonathan, his solicitor, to assist him in a land sale. They meet, and Jonathan
shows him a picture of his beautiful fiancée, Mina. It strongly resembles
Elizabeta, his ill-fated bride of long ago. Dracula falls in love with Mina`s picture.
Taking Jonathan prisoner and hiding him away, Dracula writes a letter to
Mina from Jonathan, inviting her to the castle to meet Count Dracula. Mina
rushes to the castle. She goes in and wanders around, looking for Jonathan. One
of Dracula’s servants, Reinfield, approaches her and warns her to leave. He tells
her that Jonathan has been locked in a coffin. While they are talking, some of
Dracula’s brides are observing them. Mina, realizing that she can’t handle the
situation herself, runs from the castle to find her friends, Lucy and Dr. Van
Helsing. When Mina leaves, the brides find Dracula and bring him to Reinfield
who begs him for mercy. Dracula sends him to the dungeon for the brides to kill
him.
When Mina arrives back at Dracula’s castle with her friend Lucy and family
friend, Dr. Van Helsing, she finds a party in progress. During the party, Dracula
hypnotizes the other guests, bites Lucy, dazing her, and carries Mina to her
room. When he arrives there, he finds Lucy hiding. He orders her to go, and
when she refuses, he kills her. He then dances with Mina, and decides that he
wants her with him forever, so he must make her a Vampire.
Sometime later, Dr. Van Helsing comes to Mina`s room and finds her dazed,
but she doesn’t remember what happened. Realizing that in order to save her,
they must kill Dracula, they find Jonathan, free him, and escape from the castle.
As they hurry through the castle graveyard, Dracula confronts them,
surrounded by ghouls. A fight ensues, and Dr. Van Helsing manages to drive a
stake through Dracula’s heart. When he kills him, the ghouls disappear, but Mina
is not freed of the spell of Dracula.
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