The Count may be absent but this is still a highly charged and persuasively performed follow-up to Horror of Dracula, with Fisher again at the helm and Peter Cushing back as vampire-vanquishing Van Helsing, returning to Transylvania to do battle with afflicted aristocrat David Peel. The latter has issues with mother Martita Hunt, and bloodsucking designs on Yvonne Monlaur and Andree Melly. With Mona Washbourne, Freda Jackson, and Miles Malleson.