A young painter has recurring dreams about an experience she suffered as a child.
Though, she seems to have repressed the memory of it having actually occurred.
Fast forward a number of years later, and this dream is starting to manifest itself in her waking life.
All after of one of her friends receives a mysterious delivery, which just so happens to be a coffin.
Now her dog is dead, her friend tries to attack her, and a farm girl has been found near her house drained of blood.
It's all the work of the Japanese Dracula, who has returned to finish what what he had failed to complete when she was a child...to turn her into a vampire...and make her his bride.
Her best friend, however, doesn't believe her, and convinces her doctor boyfriend that it's all in her head.
But that's probably because Dracula has already turned her.
Interestingly, though, the people he bites don't actually die...or fully turn, it seems...as they can still walk in the daylight.
Rather, they just sort of take on an odd demeanour.
As to their master's bidding, they keep trying to get the young woman alone, so that he can sink his fangs into her.
For he has become obsessed with her, ever since she escaped him as a child.
It's not until one of them tries to kill her boyfriend, that he finally realizes that something is actually up.
Which only acts to confirm that it's not all in her head.
He uses hypnosis to help her bring forth the repressed memory, in order to figure out if her childhood trauma was, in fact, real.
And deduces that because no one believed her as a child, she convinced herself it was all a dream.
Now, they must re-enact the experiences from this dream, in order to find Dracula, so that they can kill him once and for all.
Only then, will her friends (that are still alive) be freed from his curse.
As far as Asian vampire films go, it's no Mr. Vampire, but it's still a pretty decent flick.
It's more of a mystery, than an action film.
But there are a couple instances of cool special effects.
Dracula, here, is more of a pale blue, than the normal off white.
So, he's more intimidating through his strength, than he is his from his slightly comic appearance.
I wasn't totally satisfied with the ending...which seems to have been a bit of a cop out.
But overall, it's an interesting little vampire film, that differs from the norm.
6.5 out of 10.
