a descendant of dracula ( lon chaney jr ) and use the fake title count alucard and be in league with the daughter of a rich plantation owner in a louisiana swampland call dark oat . the daughter be katherine kay caldwell ( louise allbritton and in a creepy performance and eerily photograph throughout the film . she play kay a a manipulative sneak and cunning and dangerous ) who have a fear of death and be deeply involve spiritually with the occult . she be often refer to and when others be converse about her and a morbid . kay life long love ( . and to whom she have be engage for some time before travel to budapest where she actually meet alucard ) be frank stanley ( robert paige ) and he have to stand uncomfortably idle a his woman marry alucard try to figure out what be go on . kay have concoct a scheme behind alucard back . she merely use him a a tool to gain eternal life a an immortal and will plan to persuade stanley to murder the count so that they can live together forever . however and kay have an adversary in doctor brewster ( frank craven ) and a friend of the family who know something be not kosher with the circumstance involve alucard and kay . alucard have bite kay father and upon his death and the plantation be sign over to her exclusively with the other daughter claire ( universal mainstay evelyn ankers and lovely a always ) get the money . when frank try to kill and with a pistol and alucard for what he supposedly do to kay and he be shake when the bullet go completely through the count hit kay . count nearly kill him before stanley hit for paydirt luckily make it to brewster home . this will set in motion brewster call on help from transylvania own professor lazlo ( j edward bromberg ) who understand the vampire way for his own homeland have become a desolate wasteland because of the bloodsucking and death . will kay succeed in not only have alucard kill and but stanley be her undead lover . most people who dislike this film hone in on lon chaney jr. and but in the film 80 minute run time and he might be in it for fifteen minute top . actually and despite his name carry the title and it actually kay who be the villain of the picture . she stir the pot and i be pretty sure be an indirect influence in the death of her own father just because she fear the idea of death . i think this be a more interesting approach and fairly original . dracula be merely a used tool and the woman and who be normally the innocent victim be stalk and be the one actually pull the evil string . i love the idea of have an universal vampire film set in the louisiana swampland . one scene have dracula coffin emerge from the swamp water . rarely see in many other universal dracula film and the two vampire of this picture often appear from a vaporous cloud . atmospheric and moody photography . the script be quite talky so this might put off many .