History Film / TheBridesOfDracula

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Continuing on from ''Horror of Dracula'' , getting bitten seems to be an obvious threat regardless if the vampire fully drains you. Van Helsing gets [[OhCrap bitten by the Baron]], but comes up with a cure by cauterizing the bite wounds with a hot poker and then dashing the burn marks with holy water. For some reason, that cure never gets used again though it's more than likely that Helsing, being Helsing, knew what to do to save himself. When the Baron bit Helsing he only took a little and it was meant as a slow form of turning as opposed to the [[spoiler: Baroness]], Village Girl and Gina who were all fully drained and died from it. Allowing the vampirism to transform their bodies.

* VillainBall: [[spoiler: The Baron. He essentially had already won in the climax. He manages to defeat Helsing in combat and could've simply killed him and got a major obstacle out of the way. But instead just chooses to bite him as a slow form of turning and leaves him be. What's more when he goes to collect Marianne, he could've easily fed on her at the boarding school and turned her. Instead he brings her back to the windmill so he can bite her in from of Van Helsing. Helsing manages to recover enough to counter and defeat him.]]

* VillainBall: {{spoiler: The Baron. He essentially had already won in the climax. He manages to defeat Helsing in combat and could've simply killed him and got a major obstacle out of the way. But instead just chooses to bite him as a slow form of turning and leaves him be. What's more when he goes to collect Marianne, he could've easily fed on her at the boarding school and turned her. Instead he brings her back to the windmill so he can bite her in from of Van Helsing. Helsing manages to recover enough to counter and defeat him.]]

* DawsonCasting: Meinster doesn't seem older (vampirism aside) than the early-20s girls he turns, but actor David Peel was 40 at the time.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Meinster turns [[spoiler: his mother into a vampire in revenge for locking him up, knowing it's the worst thing he can do to her and the thing she fears most.]]
* HolyBurnsEvil: Van Helsing spoils Meinster's good looks with a faceful of holy water.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Continuing on from ''Horror of Dracula'' , getting bitten seems to be an obvious threat regardless if the vampire fully drains you. Van Helsing gets [[OhCrap bitten by the Baron]], but comes up with a cure by cauterizing the bite wounds with a hot poker and then dashing the burn marks with holy water. For some reason, that cure never gets used again though its more then likely that Helsing, being Helsing, knew what to do to save himself. When the Baron bit Helsing he only took a little and it was meant as a slow form of turning as opposed to the [[spoiler: Baroness]], Village Girl and Gina who were all fully drained and died from it. Allowing the vamprisim to transform their bodies.

* TranshumanTreachery: The village girl and Gina instantly become evil upon awakening as vampires. [[spoiler: Though oddly the Baroness keeps her sense of self when she's turned.]]

* MadwomanInTheAttic: Or, rather, mad vampiric son in the attic.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Meinster turns [[his mother into a vampire in revenge for locking him up, knowing it's the worst thing he can do to her.]]

* BadassBookworm: Van Helsing, of course.

* TemptingFate: After the Baron and Marianne become engaged, Gina expresses her (playful) envy Marianne and once she leaves to room to run an errand, expresses that the Baron had picked her. Cue the Baron, in vampire form, arriving.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gina and the village girl after turning.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Congrats Marianne, you unleashed a undead creature into the village and any girls he turns is on your head. Bravo.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Continuing on from ''Horror of Dracula'' , getting bitten seems to be an obvious threat regardless if the vampire fully drains you. Van Helsing gets [[OhCrap bitten by the Baron]], but comes up with a cure by cauterizing the bite wounds with a hot poker and then dashing the burn marks with holy water. For some reason, that cure never gets used again though its more then likely that Helsing, being Helsing, knew what to do to save himself. When the Baron bit Helsing he only took a little and it was meant as a slow form of turning as opposed to the [[spoiler: Baroness]], Village Girl and Gina who were all fully drained and beyond saving from vampirism.

* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler: How Greta meets her end, falling from the second story of the windmill]]

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 HammerHorror film which served as a semi-sequel to ''HorrorOfDracula''. The title is a little misleading as Dracula doesn't appear in the film. Christoper Lee did not reprise his role as the Count as he felt was getting typecast (having earlier played Dracula in a Italian adaptation). Ironically, after the success of this film he did return to the role and would do so for four movies.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Congrats Marrianne, you unleashed a undead creature into the village and any girls he turns is on your head. Bravo.

* LesYay: Vamped-out Gina slowly stalks Marianne, asking her for a kiss.
** Of course by kiss, she means "bite". She is a monster now after all.

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 HammerHorror film which served as a semi-sequel to ''HorrorOfDracula''. The title is a little misleading as Christoper Lee did not reprise his role as the Count as he felt was getting typecast (having earlier played Dracula in a Italian adaptation). Ironically, after the success of this film he did return to the role and would do so for four movies.

The film follows a French schoolteacher named Marianne Danielle who is transferred to Transylvania for a new teaching job. En route to the school however. Her driver gets spooked with the coming nightfall and abandons her in a local village. At a tavern she meet the Baroness Meinster who invites her to her castle for the night. While exploring she meets the young vampire Baron, shackled in his room, who convince Marianne that the Baroness is mad and tricks Mariannne into freeing him. Now on the loose, he sets about creating vampire servants (i.e the brides) with Marianne as a main target. Luckily though Van Helsing happens to arrive in the village at the call of a local priest and a showdown is imminent between the slayer and the vampire with Marianne's humanity on the line.

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''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 HammerHorror film which served as A semi-sequel to ''HorrorOfDracula''. The title is a little misleading as Christoper Lee did not reprise his role as the Count as he felt was getting typecast (having earlier played Dracula in a Italian adaptation). Ironically, after the success of this film he did return to the role and would do so for four movies.

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 HammerHorror film which served as the sequel to ''HorrorOfDracula''. The title is a little misleading as Christoper Lee did not reprise his role as the Count as he felt was getting typecast (having earlier played Dracula in a Italian adaptation). Ironically, after the success of this film he did return to the role and would do so for four movies.

* MercyKill: Helsing does this to [[spoiler: the Baroness after revealing herself to be a vampire and the Baron abandons her.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The start of the movie sees a man jumping onto the back of Marianne's carriage. He jumps off when he reaches the village and he's never seen again.

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[[caption-width-right:276:"You Haven't Forgotten Your Little Gina" Have you?]]

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 {{Hammer Horror}} film, which served as the sequel to ''HorrorOfDracula''. This film itself continuing into ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness''.

However the title is a little misleading as Christoper Lee did not reprise his role as the Count as he felt was getting typecast having earlier played Dracula in a Italian adaptation. So he refused to play him again (ironically after the success of this film he did return to the role and would do so for four movies). Instead a new villain was portrayed in the Baron Meinster who was said to be a disciple of Dracula.

The film follows a French schoolteacher named Marianne Danielle whose transferred to Transylvania for a new teaching job. En route to the school however. Her driver gets spooked with the coming nightfall and abandons her in a local village. At a tavern she meet the Baroness Meinster who invites her to her castle for the night. While exploring she meets the Baron whose shackled in his room and convince Marianne that the Baroness is mad. However that turns out not to be the case as the Baron is really a vampire who tricks Mariannne into freeing him. Now on the loose, he sets about creating vampire servants (i.e the brides) with Marianne as a main target. Luckily though Van Helsing happens to arrive in the village as well at the call of a local priest and a showdown is imminent between the slayer and the vampire with Marianne's humanity on the line.

Not to be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brides_of_dracula the characters from the novel]]. Though the film was famous for coining the term and any female minion of Dracula's were referred as "brides".

* CoversAlwaysLie: Many of the posters associated with the film shows Dracula and a number of girls he most likely turned. One even bringing him a girl to add to his legion. In truth only three women get turned in the film and Dracula is no where to be found.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gina and the village girl after turning. Justified as they're walking corpses now.

* LesYay: When vamped-out Gina slowly stalks Marianne, asking her for a kiss.

* TheRenfield: Greta. One of the few vampire helpers ever who willingly works for and protects her Baron from the get-go. (most of the others, including Renfield, tend to get brainwashed into servitude)

* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler: How Greta meets her end, falling the second story of the windmill]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The start of the movie sees a man jumping onto the back of Marianne's carriage. Then jumps off when he reaches the village and he's never seen again.
** We also never find out what happened to Gina and the village girl after the windmill starts to burn down. Highly unlikely they would stay in there and burn to death.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: How Van Helsing defeats the Baron [[spoiler: by jumping onto a windmill and turning it so the moonlight will reflect it like a cross.]]'