在众多的“吸血鬼"电影版本中,由约翰.巴德姆执导的本片知名度较低,但男主角法兰克.兰吉拉成功地创造了一个气质高贵的绅士型吸血鬼形象。讲述嗜血的卓古拉伯爵离开他的古堡,跑到现代的伦敦都市去追寻新的猎物,因而经历到不少有趣的遭遇。论编导上的表现本片只算中规中矩,但搭配演出的资深演员劳伦斯.奥利弗和唐纳德.普莱森斯都较有看头。When a ship is wrecked off Whitby, the only survivor, Count Dracula, is discovered lying on the beach by the sickly young Mina Van Helsing, who is visiting her dear friend Lucy Seward. Lucy, her fiancé Jonathan Harker (a solicitor), and her father Dr. Jack Seward (who runs the local asylum) try to make the Count feel welcome to England. The Count quickly takes the life of Mina, and proceeds to romance Lucy, with the intention of making her his greatest bride. Soon after the death of Mina, the Sewards call her father Dr. Abraham Van Helsing to come to their home. As Lucy falls deeper under the spell of the Count, Dr. Van Helsing almost immediately comes to understand that his daughter fell prey to a vampire and discovers the culprit to be none other than the Count himself. Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and Harker work together to foil the Count's plans to take Lucy away to his native Transylvania.