![]() Only one coffin is transported to the city.Count Dracula has only one Bride (there are three in the novel), and she is destroyed by Jonathan Harker, not Van Helsing.Doctor John Seward only appears twice, in two brief scenes as the family doctor, and is completely unaware of the supernatural goings-on.Mina is Arthur Holmwood's wife, while Lucy is his sister and Jonathan's fiancée.He also becomes a vampire and is dispatched by his friend Van Helsing. Jonathan Harker is a librarian and vampire hunter, having come to Dracula's castle to destroy him, rather than an unwitting solicitor. The sea voyage from Transylvania to England does not appear in the film and consequently Dracula never takes up residence in his English home, Carfax estate neighboring an insane asylum. The location of the Count's castle, near Klausenberg, is only a short distance (and customs checkpoint) from the city inhabited by the Holmwood family, which appears to be German-speaking. This film adaptation made several deviations from the original novel. ![]() Production Screenplay and its differences from the novel ![]() Mina recovers, the cross-shaped scar fading from her hand as Dracula's ashes blow away and leave only a ring behind. Dracula crumbles into dust as Van Helsing looks on. Van Helsing tears open the curtain to let in the sunlight and, forming a cross of candlesticks, he forces Dracula into it. Inside the castle, Van Helsing and Dracula struggle. He attempts to bury Mina alive outside the crypts but is caught by Van Helsing and Arthur. But Dracula is not in the coffin and instead escapes into the night with Mina.Ī chase then begins as Dracula rushes to return to his castle near Klausenberg before sunrise. A remark by the maid leads Van Helsing to the coffin's location: the cellar of the Holmwoods' own house. When they decide to set off again, Arthur tries to give Mina a cross to wear, but it burns her.ĭuring the night, Van Helsing and Arthur guard Mina's windows outside against a return of Dracula, but Dracula nonetheless appears inside the house and bites her. They leave for the address they were given, an undertaker's, but find the coffin missing. The next morning, Arthur and Van Helsing find Mina in a strange state. Meanwhile, Mina is called away from home by a message telling her to meet Arthur at an address in Karlstadt - the same address Arthur and Van Helsing are told the coffin was bound for - and Dracula is indeed waiting for her. Van Helsing and Arthur travel to the customs house in Ingstadt to track down the destination of Dracula's coffin (which Van Helsing saw carried away when he arrived at Dracula's castle). Arthur refuses to use Lucy as a means to find Dracula, so Van Helsing stakes Lucy in her coffin. ![]() Vampire Lucy lures away a young niece, but the girl is saved by Van Helsing and Arthur. Van Helsing turns over Harker's journal and reveals the truth. Mina seeks out Van Helsing's aid in treating Lucy's worsening health, but Lucy defeats his anti-vampire prescription and dies. And soon Dracula arrives and bites her again. But, when night falls, Lucy opens the doors to her terrace and lays bare her neck - already, it bears the mark of a vampire bite. Lucy is ill, so the news is kept from her. Staking Harker, he leaves to deliver the veiled news of Harker's death in person to a wary Arthur Holmwood and his wife Mina, brother and sister-in-law of Harker's fiancée Lucy Holmwood. In the crypt, Van Helsing is horrified to discover Harker lying in a coffin as a vampire. When he arrives at the castle, it is deserted a hearse carriage speeds by with a coffin in it. The frightened townsfolk give him Harker's journal. Van Helsing then arrives in Klausenberg, looking for Harker. But when he turns to kill Dracula, the Count has already awakened and is waiting for him.ĭr. Armed with a stake, he impales the woman. He hides his journal in a Virgin Mary grotto outside the castle and descends into the crypts, where he finds Dracula and the unnamed vampire woman resting in their coffins. When he awakens in daylight, Harker finds the bite mark. Just as she does, Dracula - fangs bared and lips bloody - arrives and yanks her away. She begs him for help but then bites his neck. įreed sometime later, Harker again is confronted by the desperate woman. Production began at Bray Studios on the 17 November 1957 with an investment of £81,000. In the United States, the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the 1931 film Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh, Melissa Stribling and Christopher Lee. It is the first in the series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. Dracula, also known as Horror of Dracula in the United States, is a 1958 British horror film.
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