Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. After only a few days Jonathan realizes that he is a prisoner in the castle.
Meanwhile, in England, Mina, his fiancee, visits her friend Lucy at the seaside town of Whitby. A Russian ship is wrecked on the shore near the town with all its crew missing and its captain dead. The only sign of life aboard is a large dog that bounds ashore and disappears into the countryside.
Not long after, Lucy suddenly begins sleepwalking. She becomes ill, and because of the two tiny red marks on her throat, her family sends for the vampire hunter Professor Van Helsing.
But now Dracula’s desire concentrates on Mina and she is in danger of becoming a vampire, too. Jonathan and Van Helsing have to fight against the powerful, undead count Dracula to save Mina’s life.
