Count Dracula

"Regarded as one of the best adaptations of the classic Bram Stoker tale, Count Dracula benefits from a critically-acclaimed performance from Louis Jourdan as the title character. A cult classic from the seventies, the film faithfully recreates Stoker's characters and prose."

After an emotional farewell, Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania so that he can prepare the legal documents for Count Dracula's move to England. When the solicitor arrives at his destination, Dracula welcomes Jonathan and then imprisons him within the walls of the ancient castle. As the days pass into weeks Jonathan's fiancée, Wilhelmina 'Mina' Westenra becomes increasingly anxious as to the reasons why his daily letters to her have ceased. The Count makes his passage to England on rough seas finally arriving at Whitby. Shortly afterward, Wilhelmina becomes worried about her sister Lucy's declining health as well as the whereabouts of her beloved Jonathan.

Abraham van Helsing has been asked by Dr. John Seward to give his professional opinion as to what is ailing Lucy. The astute man being versed in obscure diseases quickly diagnoses that Lucy has been bitten by a Vampire, so he sets to work trying to protect her. Jonathan Harker finally returns home after a lucky escape from Dracula's castle, to find that all attempts to save Lucy's life have sadly failed. Van Helsing, Harker, Seward and Holmwood must now find and sanctify all the coffins Dracula brought with him from Transylvania, and then destroy Dracula himself.

• Movies

Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula (1931)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

• Literature

Dracula, Bram Stoker (Full Online Text)