Awesome / Horror of Dracula

• Dracula's appearance at the top of the stairs. The sight of his tall figure standing there, his face wreathed in shadows, clad entirely in black before he smoothly makes his way down the stairs to greet Jonathan Harker is nothing short of cool and magnificent.
• Van Helsing stepping in and warding off a vampire Lucy with a cross before she can victimize her brother, and the little girl, Tania. His ice cold stare, the firm set of his jaw, and his steady gate as he forces Lucy back are all badass.
• The final chase scene. Basically, Van Helsing gets the drop on Dracula and chases him through his castle. Peter Cushing's Van Helsing was so badass that despite having no powers Dracula's fight or flight response was definitively "flight". There is a brief physical struggle but Van Helsing shakes it off without much fuss. He strikes the killing blow when he runs across the table, jumps onto the curtains to pull them down, and uses two candesticks to form a cross and force Dracula into the sunlight. The climax can accurately be described as "A normal unarmed guy runs down and kills a supernatural monster that had been feared for hundreds of years."
• Christopher Lee is the definitive Dracula. Enough said.