Marc Warren stars as Dracula, with Sophia Myles as Lucy,and Stephanie Leonidas as Mina. David Suchet stars as vampire scholar Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, an authority on the powers of garlic, crucifixes and wooden stakes to combat these bloodsucking monsters.
Dracula and Lucy
In MASTERPIECE THEATRE’s retelling, Holmwood learns as a young man that he contracted syphilis at birth from his mother, who had been infected by his debauched father. Engaged to Lucy, he seeks out a cure to protect her from the disease.
Holmwood dispatches solicitor Harker to Transylvania to make arrangements for Count Dracula’s move to England to effect Holmwood’s cure, unwittingly setting in motion a nightmarish sequence of events. In this way, he falls into the clutches of the Brotherhood of the Undead, a London cult devoted to the worship of Dracula, although they are unaware of his true megalomania.
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