Aging faded beauty
Ilsa Strangway invites Count Dracula into her home. She keeps Dracula at bay
with a cross as she explains that she bought his castle from Frank Drake in hopes
of meeting the legendary Count. Ilsa is willing to do anything to regain her
lost looks even if it means becoming a vampire, offering the Count the secret
of the Black Mirror. Dracula agrees to the bargain and she drops the cross
allowing him to bite her. Ilsa’s butler Whitby comes upon them and Dracula
flattens him with a blow…
…and he relates this
later to Rachel van Helsing and Frank Drake at the hospital, sending them, with
Taj Nital, to the Strangway home. Taj discovers some tracks and follows them….
As the sun sets at a
WW2 coastal bunker, Clifton Graves awakens his master and Ilsa Strangway who
awakens as one of the living dead for the first time. Upholding her part of the
bargain, Ilsa explains to Dracula that she purchased the Black Mirror and learned
that by reciting a certain incantation, the mirror becomes a portal to another
time and place, which Dracula could use to return to his own century. The Count
accepts this and the two fly off as bats to feed. The vampire-hunters arrive
and place crosses in the two coffins. Frank and Taj head for the Strangway
mansion while Rachel waits for Ilsa to return. In town Ilsa preys on a young
couple in an alley; Dracula discovers Frank trailing him and attacks but is
driven off by a flashlight with a cross painted on the lens. Dracula makes it
to the mansion but finds he is trapped inside as all the doors and windows are
guarded by police holding similar flashlights. He hurries upstairs to find the
Black Mirror….
Ilsa returns to the
bunker to find Rachel waiting for her. Rachel tells the woman that she is not
young and beautiful as she wished; Clifton reveals that Dracula had deceived
her, a vampire will not become younger than they were when they became a
vampire thus Ilsa will always look the age she is now—at best. But Ilsa reveals
that she deceived Dracula: she did not mention that if there is not another
Black Mirror where the traveler wishes to go, he ends up in another world of
demon-creatures. With that she begs Rachel to give her peace; Rachel does….
At the Strangway
home, Dracula speaks the incantation to open the Black Mirror just as Taj
arrives and assaults his enemy. Frank and Rachel arrive to see Dracula and Taj
disappearing through the mirror….