In 1792, an
Englishman is told by an Indian fakir that he has been reborn endlessly and
will continue to be reborn until he meets the Dead Man, who will end his life.
The Englishman is killed soon after and is reborn elsewhere and the cycle of
death and rebirth continues until the present day when he is Gideon Smith,
insurance agent, who, like all the others, has a crescent shaped birthmark on
his right cheek. On this day he and his girlfriend Glory make plans to visit
her sister in Boston and Gideon sees Dracula and knows this is the Dead Man who
will be his death….
In Boston, Dracula’s
bride Domini confronts cult leader Anton Lupeski about his plans to kill
Dracula; she threatens to expose him to her master but Lupeski tells her he
would only implicate her in the plot. Assured of her silence, he has his men
take her home….
Gideon and Glory
arrive in Boston and meet her sister Cindy who takes her to her home, which she
calls “Castle Dracula,” making Gideon shudder. As he is getting their luggage,
Gideon his struck by a drunk driver and rushed to the hospital….
Nearby, Dracula is
feasting on a young victim when he is interrupted by two policemen; Dracula
kills the one and the other runs to his home where he locks himself in. Through
the locked door, Dracula persuades him to invite the vampire in. The cop draws
a crucifix and presses it against his attacker’s face, burning him, before he
dies from Dracula’s grip. The vampire then staggers away and collapses in the
snow. This is witnessed by an elderly nun….
Gideon awakens in a
hospital bed next to an unidentified man with facial burns; two doctors come to
check on their mystery patient and find he (Dracula) is no longer scarred. When
Gideon sees Dracula’s face he cries out in terror; Dracula kills the doctors
for their blood and turns on the panicked Gideon. But then others enter the
room, responding to Gideon’s cries and Dracula fights his way through the
corridors and comes upon Quincy Harker being examined by a doctor and
accompanied by Rachel van Helsing and Frank Drake. The vampire hunters attack
their foe but Quincy has a seizure and Dracula seizes that moment to flee. He
returns to kill Gideon but the elderly nun enters and her crucifix drives
Dracula to escape through the window….
Three days later,
the hospital staff are still confused about the vampire in their midst but also
by Gideon Smith, whose hair has been bleached white and he is in a state of
shock, as though he had seen his own death and knows it is waiting for him….