During the
Walpurgis Night in the woods adjacent to the village of Passo Borgo, located at the foot of the
Carpathian Mountains, a couple of young lovers, Tanja and Milos, secretly meet and make love. After fighting, Tanja removes the cross Milos had given her. On her way home, Tanja is chased by a supernatural creature that drains her blood. Sometime later, Jonathan Harker, a young librarian hired by
Count Dracula, a nobleman from the area, arrives at the village. Tanja's body mysteriously disappears from the cemetery when the taxidermist Renfield intervenes in an attempt to stake her, killing Milos in the process. In the meantime, Harker, before going to Count Dracula's castle, takes the opportunity to visit Lucy Kisslinger, his wife Mina's best friend as well as the daughter of the local mayor. Upon arriving at the castle, Harker is greeted by Tanja, reanimated as a vampire, who tries from the very beginning to seduce him; however, they are interrupted by Dracula's entrance welcoming Harker. Dracula shows Harker the library he is to catalogue. The following night Tanja, having burnt Harker's photo of his wife, Mina, tries again to seduce and bite Harker, undressing in front of him, but a furious Dracula intervenes, throwing her across the room. Dracula bites Harker's neck but allows him to live. Dracula meanwhile visits Renfield in his cell and frees him from his chains; Renfield acknowledges Dracula as "Master". That night, Harker glimpses Dracula climbing unnaturally up the outside wall of the castle. The following day, a weakened but still conscious Harker attempts to escape, but as soon as he is outside the castle, a large wolf with a white lock transforms into Dracula, who savages him. Meanwhile, Mina arrives in the village and is a guest for a few days at the home of her dearest friend Lucy Kisslinger, who also gets bitten and turned. The day after, Mina, worried about her husband, goes to Count Dracula's castle. Their encounter makes her forget what happened during her visit. She is completely under the count's influence; the count had orchestrated the events leading up to their encounter; in fact, Mina looks exactly like his beloved wife, Dolingen de Gratz, who died from a sudden illness some centuries ago, and it’s also implied that he stalked her since the moment of her birth. Returning to the Kisslinger house, Mina learns of the death of Lucy. The sequence of such strange and dramatic events summons the aid of
Abraham Van Helsing, an expert on vampires and the techniques used to eliminate them. Being aware of the circumstances, Van Helsing decides to act swiftly and prepares the tools needed to combat vampires. He inspects Lucy's
crypt and finds it empty, then kills the undead Lucy as she tries to attack Mina. He then directs himself to the center of evil, Count Dracula's castle. Meanwhile, Dracula goes to the village and kills a group of men gathered at the tavern who plotted to betray him, all except for his loyal spy, Zoran. At the same time, Van Helsing, inside the castle, is able to definitively kill Tanja, Zoran, Renfield, and a now-undead Harker. Dracula, intent on his desire to reunite with his wife, leads Mina, completely hypnotized, to the castle where Van Helsing is waiting. He has decided to engage in a deadly fight with his evil foe. During the struggle, Van Helsing loses his gun loaded with a silver bullet coated in garlic, but Mina, shaking off Dracula's spell, picks up the gun and kills Dracula with it. The special
silver bullet transforms Dracula into ashes, and Mina walks out of the
graveyard, and Van Helsing coming along with her. After they leave, however, Dracula's spirit lifts the ashes into the air and, uniting, they shape into a large wolf that leaps forward. ==Cast==