count alurcard ( lou chaney jr. ) come from hungary arrives in the southern part of the u. s. in lousiana . he seek the blood of a woman name katherine ( louise allbritton ) who be obsess with the gothic and supernatural and she fall under his spell to be in love with him but her fiancée frank ( robert paige ) get suspicious of what she become and now must join with dr. brewster ( frank craven ) and professor lazio ( j. edward bromberg ) to stop this creature of the night and katherine . so far an improvement over daughter of dracula and this third installment of universal dracula series be a very worthy successor to the 1931 masterpiece . this be the first vampire film to show a bat to vampiric man transformation and have good performance even though lou chaney jr. isn not too bad a a vampire as much a he be a the wolf man and it not as excellent a the first one but it a great sequel .