AKA Daughter of Dracula."Free to live as a woman. Free to take my place in the bright world of the living, instead of among the shadows of the dead."
Prof. Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is being held by the police for the murder of Dracula. Then the body disappears, taken by a mysterious woman, who burns it. The woman is countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), daughter of Dracula. She had hoped to free herself from her father's influence once he had been destroyed, but now seemed more under his spell than ever before. To break herself of this curse she seeks out the help of psychiatrist Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), a friend of Van Helsing.
An interesting take on the Dracula story, with much discussion about the loneliness of the vampire existence. Its one downfall is the lack of Dracula, and the charisma that this character brings.
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