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While Quincy Morris [Fred Iacovo] stumbles down a river bed in Sierra Leone, West Africa, his fiance Mina Murray [Anne Flosnik] is at the Westenra Estate in Purcellville, Virginia helping her rich and somewhat spoiled cousin Lucy [Brooke Paller] prepare for her wedding to Arthur Holmwood [Jason King]. Quincy makes it back to Virginia but tells a haunting story in his journal about being lured to the villa of a European Count where he was caged for four weeks, made to witness the slaughter and dismemberment of innocent villagers, and forced to eat their flesh. A week after Quincy's return, Lucy takes a fall from her favorite horse, and she is found and brought home by Count Klaus Vogel [James Nalitz], a German who has recently moved into the area after buying the old Stoker place. In fact, Vogel is a vampire, known as "the blood vulture", and it was he who spooked the horse and then feasted on Lucy's blood while she was unconscious. Vogel claims to be an equestrian trainer, and Lucy begins a training program under his tutelage.
Of course, the Count is also sucking on Lucy's neck. As Lucy gets weaker and weaker, Arthur's friend Dr Jack Seward [Joseph Reo] decides to call in Abraham Van Helsing [Paul Zacheis], a physician who knows more about obscure diseases than anyone in the world. Fortunately, Van Helsing is nearby in Richmond and comes immediately to the Westenra estate. The first thing he does after noticing the marks on Lucy's neck is to hypnotize her. Under hypnosis, Lucy tells him about the man who is biting her neck, but she becomes so upset that Van Helsing has to bring her out from the hypnosis. Under Van Helsing's care, Lucy is starting to feel better, so she throws a dinner party. During the dinner, Count Vogel drops by to pay his respects, having just heard that Lucy was ill. After Vogel leaves, Lucy goes crazy, muttering sexually lurid things about Arthur, degrading Catholics, etc., such that Arthur has to lead her away from the table. Later that evening, the Count pays a visit to Van Helsing, and the two declare war on each other.
The next morning, Lucy is much worse. She tells Mina how Jack came during the night and tried to rape her. Lucy dies in Mina's arms and is buried. Everyone is at the funeral, except for Jack, who appears to have run off out of shame. That night, Lucy comes to Mina. Quincy, Arthur, and Mina fetch Lucy's coffin and confine her in it until the next morning when Van Helsing thrusts a pitchfork through her and then cuts off her head. Van Helsing leads Quincy and Arthur to the old Stoker house in an attempt to destroy the Count. They find Jack eaten away and dying. They destroy two vampiresses and then find Mina covered with blood. It's not Mina's blood, however, it's blood that the Count has regurgitated into Mina's mouth.
That night, the Count comes to Mina. As he climbs into her bed in order to drink her blood, Mina takes a scalpel and slits his throat. Van Helsing opens the bedroom door to see Mina drinking the Count's blood. Having made a promise to Mina that he would destroy her should she become a vampire, Van Helsing pulls out a gun and shoots her in the stomach. Quincy and Arthur hear the shot and come running. They find Mina missing and Van Helsing dead on the floor (heart attack?). Quincy goes looking for Mina while Arthur takes an ax and cuts off the Count's head. They find Mina lying on the ground wounded and behead her, too
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