With a strong wartime backdrop, Bela lugosi returns as a vampire, although it is not his famous character but a knock off named Tesla, who appears to have been something of an expert on vampires back in the late 1700s but became so obsessed that he became one. With a supporting minion of a werewolf (who can walk about fully wolfed out in daylight and no full moon) he wreaks revenge on the heroine Lady Ainsley played by Frieda Inescort who helped stake him at the beginning of the film. (bit of an unusual set up being a woman taking on a vampire for this period). Tesla attacks his nemesis through Lady Ainsley's family but in the end good will triumph and the vampire is dealt with as expected. The story was a little hammy, the acting ok, but i have to say that the lighting was great, some real mood setting, never going to contend with others dracula films, its a late night b movie really. but that isn't always a bad thing.
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