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A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

The silent-era aesthetics and exaggerated shadows lend this early talkie a ghostly, dreamlike atmosphere rarely captured in modern horror. Instead of jump scares, the film relies on a hypnotic, predatory stillness that makes the Count feel genuinely otherworldly.