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Emmanuelle's Sylvia Kristel vamps it up as Vanessa, the widow of the legendary Count Dracula, whose coffin is transported from its resting place in modern-day Romania to a Hollywood "House of Horrors" wax museum. After her arrival, she awakens to seek both the remains of her husband and the descendant of Jonathan Harker -- who has gone to great lengths to ensure that the Count will never rise again. Notable mainly as the debut effort of Francis Coppola's nephew Christopher, this film benefits from a flamboyant style and great use of film noir ambience (gritty, neon-lit street scenes; Josef Sommer's Chandleresque voiceovers) but the tired script is in dire need of a punch-up. This basic premise was handled with far greater panache in Michael Almereyda's Nadja. - The young owner of a waxworks in hollywood receives five instead of six ordered chests with romanian antiques. He does not know that Vanessa, widow of count dracula, sleeps in the sixth chest. She rises in the night and walks around craving for blood. A thieve wittnessing the murder of his accomplice sets the police on the trail of the waxworks. The grandson of Dr. van Helsing is is hunting the vampire, too...

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