A young woman on her way to a teaching job spends the night at a chateau and finds a young man in a room wearing a shackle. She steals the key from her hosts bedroom and lets the man loose...unknown to her she has just loosed the terror of the undead on the populace once again.
David Peel is the young vampire and Martita Hunt is his every suffering mother whom he changes into a vampire after he bites her. Yvonne Monlaur is Marianne, the sexy young woman who lets the evil loose.
Peter Cushing is Van Helsing and he does battle with the vampire in some terrific sequences that will always stay in my collective mind.
This film has everything Hammer and horror fans expect..moody lighting, a great music score, a fine cast and good tight directing by Terence Fisher. It is somewhat overlooked in the annals of horror, but this is a fine film with everything going for it. Recommended!
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