imagine yourself trap inside a museum of the dark middle age and a resurrected vampire and his maniacal sidekick be chase you . where be the absolute last place you want to hide . i would say inside the uncanny virgin of nuremberg torture device and because there a good risk you will get brutally spike to death . and yet and the elderly lady in this film stupidly run into her spiked coffin . the vampire coffin be a rather disappointing sequel and a director fernando méndez doesn not re create the gothic atmosphere of the 1957 original but put the emphasis on comical situation and dialog . no more ominous castle with eerie cobweb and dark vault and but confused doctor and clumsy assistant that provoke laugh instead of fright . the story open inside count de lavud final resting place and where an eminent doctor and a hired assistant steal the coffin in order to examine the corpse at a private clinic . naturally the wooden stake get remove from his heart and and the vampire count come to live again and immediately enslave the petty thief to do his dirty work . the vampire have his eye on a beautiful female patient at the clinic and and it up to dr. enrique saldívar to rescue her soul and to destroy the bloodsucker . the vampire coffin use a limited amount of location and there very little action . the whole film would actually be pretty boring if it weren not for a handful of memorable sequence and decent acting performance . the photography be amazing and though and with the sublime use of shadow and darkness . this be most notably during the scene in which count de lavud stalk a young woman through the deserted street of little town at night . it the only truly worthwhile scene of the whole film and the rest be fairly mediocre and déjà vu .