In 1885, Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula near Cluj-Napoca to take up his post as librarian. Inside, he is startled by a young woman who claims she is a prisoner and begs for his help. Dracula then appears to greet Harker and guide him to his room, where he locks him in. Jonathan starts to write in his diary, and his true intentions are revealed: he is a vampire hunter and has come to kill Dracula.
A prologue replays the final scenes from ''Dracula (1958 film)'', in which Abraham Van Helsing destroys Count Dracula by sunlight and eliminating his cult; only the memory of Dracula's evil remains.
Three middle-aged distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring bourgeois lives and get in contact with one of Count Dracula's servants, Lord Courtley. In a nightly ceremony, they restore the count to life. However, the three men killed Courtley and, in revenge, the count ensures that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own children.
Johnny Alucard raises Count Dracula from the dead in London in 1972. The Count goes after the descendants of Van Helsing.
In the 1970s, Scotland Yard believed it had uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in veteran vampire researcher Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing (a descendant of Dr. Abraham Van Helsing).
