Nightmare Fuel / The Brides of Dracula

• The start of the movie where Marianne is stranded at the village due to a very cowardly coach driver not wanting to move around the area at night. She has no idea where she is or even why the people are acting strange. She tries to get a room only to be told there isn't any and seems to be out of luck...then the Baroness Meinster arrives and offers her room at her manor. Only then does the shopkeep there suddenly try to help Marianne knowing what fate awaits her. But by this point Marianne's accepted her offer.
• The fact that Baroness was stringing Marianne along just to feed her son later. Fridge Horror kicks in when you wonder what even happened to the previous girls the Baroness had lured to the castle.
• Marianne finding the Baron chained to to his room and believing his word that the Baroness is mad, which leads into her freeing him from his shackles. It never seemed to occur to her there was a reason why he would be in there in the first place or to even ask the Baronness about it. Thus she is solely responsible for the events of the movies.
• Once freed, the Baroness delivers a prompt Oh, Crap! when she realizes what Marianne has done and sees her son now roaming the manor. He uses her powers to hypnotize her while allowing Marianne time to go get dressed so they can leave together. However, when Marianne comes back, he's nowhere to be seen and their maid, Greta, laughing manically who then proceeds to show Marianne the Baroness's body, now slumped in a chair with two tell-tale bite marks on her throat. Not surprisingly, Marianne flees at this site into the night (though miraculously isn't attacked during this) while Greta chastises the Baroness for allowing all this happen, expositing that she always liked to hang with bad company and the Baron's condition was due to allowing Dracula into her home and allowing him to turn the Baron.
• Helsing soon arrives at the village after dropping off Marianne at the charm school. Already the Baron has claimed a victim in one of the village girls and arrives in the midst of a funeral being held for her. Of course when he inspects the body, he finds the pinpricks on the girls neck. However what worse is that the girl's father, already grief stricken, ultimately decides to just have her buried despite the priest trying to convince him otherwise. As all this goes on, the Baron makes an unexpected visit at the charm school to see Marianne and wishing to marry her as thanks for freeing him. By this point, none of the characters are aware that he is a vampire, and his charming demeanor winning over pretty much everyone, even the very strict headmaster of the school.
• That following night, Van Helsing heads over to the cemetery in hopes of staking the girl before she can revive. However, Gerta is already there in rather surreal scene as she coaches the now vampiric girl to dig herself out of her grave. Eventually a hand pops up from the ground and the girl sit ups, flashes her fangs and gets to her feet as the music swells at the unholy resurrection. What's more, Van Helsing and the priest try to stop them, but the girl still manages to get away.
• That said, Van Helsing manages to pick up the trail to the Meinster's manor. He finds it seemingly abandoned but investigating further, ultimately finds where the Baron's coffin was. Then senses a presence and turns to find the Baroness Meinster. For a split second, we see her face and sign of fangs in her mouth before she covers it, obviously ashamed at what she has become. Just as Helsing about to ask about her son, he suddenly arrives and a chase ensues. The Baron manages to get away on a coach (driven by the village girl if you pause the screen) holding his coffin. Afterward, Van Helsing talks to the Baroness one last time before offering to Mercy Kill. She gladly takes him up on it and the next morning, he promptly stakes her.
• During some time before Helsing goes to the manor, we see Marianne and Gina, a fellow teacher she befriended, talking about how lucky Marianne is. Marianne goes off to freshen up and Gina laments that she wishes the Baron had chosen her in wistful manor. No sooner then she says that, she suddenly feels uneasy, at first looking around the room and seeing nothing. After looking at the mirror on her dresser and once more seeing nothing, she turns around and finds the Baron in her room, only now showcasing his vampiric form. He quickly hypnotizes and goes in for the bite as the scene fades to the next one. After the Manor encounter, Van Helsing arrives at the school that morning and sees it's in an uproar. Going into the room, he finds that Gina is dead with everyone confused how she even died as the room was locked. A quick scan of her body locates the bite marks on her neck but even the local doctor can't make heads or tails of it, showcasing that the area really is ignorant of vampires. Luckily Van Helsing is there and now ready...
• Before Gina is buried, Van Helsing requests that Gina's body be kept in the horse stables, which is looked over by the headmistress and a stable hand that night. Marianne comes to relieve the headmistress and takes over watching the coffin. As she's talking with the stablehand, one of the locks on the coffin falls off. But checking it reveals that it's still bolted to the two's confusion. The stablehand goes to get another lock, but is quickly attacked by a bat as soon as he gets outside. Back in the stables, the second lock falls over and the coffin is pushed open. Gina sits up and gives a very creepy stare at Marianne before smiling, showcasing her newly formed fangs. As Marianne is shocked and likewise scared at her now undead friend, Gina gives off this line.
  Gina: Marianne, my darling Marianne. You haven't forgotten your little Gina? Put your arms around me please, I want to kiss you Marianne. Please be kind to me, say that you'll forgive me, for letting [The Baron] love me.
  • All the while as she saying this, she's getting closer to the camera to heighten just how corrupted she is and likely how close she's getting to Marianne. The fact that Marianne has no idea what she's talking about likewise contributes as by this point she isn't even aware of what a vampire is.
• Outside Van Helsing finally arrives and finds the stablehand's body. Knowing something's wrong he rushes to the stables as Gina starts to close the deal on biting Marianne.
  Gina: We can both love him, my darling. He's up at the old mill now, we can go there together. (Holds out a hand to Marianne) Come with me Marianne. (Cue Van Helsing arriving as Gina turns, snarling a bit. Once Van Helsing sees her coffin empty he rushes to Marianne as Gina moves out of his way and flees while he tends to the now fainted red-head)
• When Van Helsing brings Marianne back to the school after the encounter, he eventually explains that the Baron and now Gina, are vampires. Marianne is in utter denial about it, but Helsing ultimately forces her to disclose where the Baron is. He arrives at the windmill and finds the Baron's coffin. But just before he can place a cross in it, he hears Gerta's cackling and finds her with both Gina and the village girl, ordering them to "Obey your master, take him!". Helsing forces the vampire brides back but Gerta confronts him and manages to wrestle away the cross, only to fall off the rafters to the ground below. She dies but the cross is lost down a well underneath the mill. And this is when the Baron shows up. A struggle ensues but Van Helsing is overwhelmed and knocked out, similar to what happened in Horror of Dracula. Only this time The Baron then takes the opportunity and bites Van Helsing as his two brides watch, smiling gleefully, before he leaves the building. In the next scene after we see Marianne milling around in her room, obviously still recovering from the events in the stable...and then the Baron shows up. She makes for a cross Van Helsing gave her eariler only for the Baron to cut her off and grab her, leering into her eyes and for the moment you think she's done for as she has no means or protection and no one is coming to save her this time.
• Back at the mill, Van Helsing awakesn and finds out he's bitten. Wasting no time, he uses the hot poker for a fire lighting the building, braces himself and burns the wound with it, yelling all the while. Eventually he stop and splashes the wound with holy water. Surprisingly enough this manages to cure him of the vampirism but to the shock of Gina and the Village Girl who were watching all of this.
• And finally, as Van Helsing recovers from this, the Baron arrives with Marianne who miraculously hasn't been bitten yet. The Baron gloats that he's going to turn her right in front of him (likely thinking Van Helsing is still infected by his bite and powerless to stop him). Van Helsing warns Marianne not to look into his eyes, but the Baron forces her to. She starts to give in to his power until Van Helsing notices the flask of holy water he used to burn the vampire curse out of his system. Gina and the village girl see this and hiss out a warning to the Baron but Van Helsing already makes for the flask and splashes the Baron with it. The Baron face is near melted as a result of this and he kicks over the coals in his rage, setting the building on fire. The Baron escapes out the front while Van Helsing and Marianne escape to the balcony of the building. Van Helsing spots the Baron trying to flee the area and jumps to the windmill, using the moonlight to form a cross over the Baron. The Baron dies instantly from the symbol as Van Helsing and Marianne go to ground level, watching as the building burns...however Gina and the village girl are unaccounted for and last seen fleeing when the building, leading into one last bit of Fridge Horror that they're still roaming the village and likely to continue spreading the vampire curse.

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