Frank Drake, with a
companion named Gort, returns to the burned-out husk of Castle Dracula. There
Frank finds Dracula’s tomb and also Clifton Graves, his pal who was thrown
alive into a pit by the Count. Frank is taking Dracula’s coffin as part of a
plan to rescue his girlfriend Jean—now a vampire—from the Count’s clutches….
Nearby, Dracula
preys upon a village girl, then visits Doktor Carl von Harbou, an aged
physician who was Dracula’s servant as a boy. With some experimentation, von
Harbou manages to make the Count able to pass for a normal human. Dracula then
kills his servant, revenge for his having betrayed his master as a boy….
Frank and Clifton
return to London with Dracula’s coffin. That night, Frank hears a noise in his
hotel bathroom and, investigating, discovers Jeanie, saying she has returned to
him. But Frank knows she isn’t his Jeanie but a trap sent by the Count. Clifton
enters and Frank flashes a cross before her face to show Clifton she isn’t the
same Jean….
Dracula hears Jean’s
scream and moves on, chatting up a prospective victim named Ellie in a bar and
when her tough guy boyfriend Bart objects to the stranger’s attentions to her,
the Count knocks him across the room with a blow. Dracula takes her out and
bites her neck in an alley to sate his hunger and flies off in bat form as Bart
and his pals look on in horror….
Back in the hotel
room, a bound Jean convinces Clifton that Frank is insane and he was the one
she’s loved all along, causing Clifton to drug Frank’s coffee and free Jean.
But Frank awakens and Jean orders the hypnotized Clifton to kill him; Frank
decks his woozy pal with a blow. Dracula enters and fights Frank while Jean
prepares to feast on Clifton’s blood. Frank stabs Jean with a broken stick of
furniture and the sun rises. Dracula takes off in bat form while Jean dies in
the sunlight and Frank breaks down….