describe this film be a difficult task . on the one hand and it an over the top vampire spookfest and complete with cobweb and eerie music and a hypnotic medallion and and of course a coffin with a creaky lid . on the other hand and this be one of the silly script this side of edward d. wood and jr. produce by the same people who give u the bloody vampire and invasion of the vampire and and this film predecessor and the modestly title the vampire and the movie stick close to the lack of logic that characterize the other film . a i mention and this film be a sequel to the vampire and which i have not see . but no matter . it real easy to imagine what happen . dr. enrique and play by abel the brainiac salazar and be befuddle when the well intentioned but misguide dr. marion bring back the staked body of his vampiric enemy and count karol de lavud ( i suppose there be a rule somewhere that all vampire must be count of some sort ) . dr. marion complains that all important doctor throughout history have have to resort to some sort of grave robbing in order to advance their medical study and and he hop to use the vampire corpse to study such phenomenon a the vampire lack of a normal reflection ( at which point he hold a mirror up to the vampire and instead of no reflection and we see the vampire skeleton . . ) . enrique be not pleased and and seem determine to pass off the event of the first film a mere fantasy and superstition . this man be no vampire . i will admit that he like to drink a little blood and but that all . he state . also confuse matter be the fragile martha and a part time nurse and part time showgirl ( . ) who happen to be enrique object of affection . martha narrowly escape de lavud clutch in the first film and and apparently enrique have spend a great deal of time heal her mind and get her to think that everything that she experience be not real . ok and so if you be the scriptwriter for this film and you would need a way to get someone dumb enough to pull the stake out of the vampire and right . well and how about the greedy con man who help marion steal the coffin . after get a glimpse de lavud body and he set his sight on the expensive look brooch that the count be wear and and he conveniently return to steal it when the doctor aren not look . but darn it . he can not remove the brooch because of the stake and so . you guess it . de lavud be on the loose again and this time with the shady con a his human henchman . ok and so of course the vampire be after martha again and and meanwhile the doctor be really confuse about what they believe . at first they be determine to prove that there be no such thing a a real vampire and then by the end of the film they be try to get the police to put an all point bulletin out for a man who be dead but still alive . you can probably imagine the rest of the plot from here and but the filmmaker do throw in a few pleasing twist . one of the set for the movie be a spooky wax museum ( be there any other kind in these type of film . ) and complete with a fully equipped torture chamber . with real torture and execution equipment . the movie have a very keen sense of style and and not just in the campy cobweb . one effectively creepy sequence have de lavud chase a victim down a seemingly endless series of street and alleyway and follow their progress alongside vague building with no door while light the scene like a german expressionist nightmare ( the cabinet of dr. caligari seem to be an influence ) . but the rest of the film be juvenile and particularly in the film climax . the special effect be quite crude and even for the year that this be make and and the climactic fight with de lavud in bat form be laughable enough . but the director feel the need to ask u to believe that martha would faint and collapse directly over top of a guillotine and position so that her head be in the perfect location to be chop off by the blade and which be in danger of fall because the restrain rope have suddenly begin to fray right at that very minute . what an unfortunate coincidence . to make matter bad and he cut away from the fray rope to scene of enrique try to dodge the swoop rubber bat and basically stand still and wave his arm around . it definitely an ed wood moment if ever there be one and especially when martha seem to revive on her own and rise groggily to her foot just a the blade slam down . whew . what a relief . in term of kookiness and the vampire coffin do not have the lunacy factor of the bloody vampire or invasion of the vampire and but fan of these type of old horror film will appreciate the atmospheric photography and and the fact that the director manage to wring some real chill from this material have to count for something ( haw haw ) .