History Film / TheBridesOfDracula

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-Brides-of-Dracula-poster.jpg At least one poster]] associated with the film shows Dracula and a number of girls he most likely turned. (The one linked to also uses a flat-out lie in its hype, unless you read "Dracula" as synonym for "vampire"). Likewise [[http://diaboliquemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/the-brides-of-dracula-poster.jpg an alternate]] seem to imply that the charm school was going to be the main setting with girls within getting turned into vampires and the threat of the undead taking it over. Again doesn't happen in the movie and the charm school is a partial setting at best.

** The first is when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRSEUgmtlqE Greta helps a newly turned village girl crawl out of her grave]]. ** The second is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JSDeWXsbw iconic scene of Gina busting open her coffin and rising as a vampire before a horrified Marianne.]]

--> '''Greta''': ''[To the brides when Helsing finds the Baron's coffin in the windmill]'' Go on, get him! Obey your master! Take him! Take him!
* RiseFromYourGrave: Twice in the movie, the first is when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRSEUgmtlqE Greta helps a newly turned village girl crawl out of her grave]]. The second is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JSDeWXsbw iconic scene of Gina busting open her coffin and rising as a vampire.]]

* TheRenfield: Greta. Though unlike most examples, she's a willing servant having been with the Baron since childhood and wasn't willing to abandon him after Dracula turned him despite knowing what him being unleashed entails for the village. Surprisingly enough, it seems mutual on the Baron's end as his brides listen to her without question despite being human.

* VampiresAreSexGods: In his human guise, the Baron manages to charm Marianne enough that he convinces her to marry him after only two meetings. As a vampire, when he invades Gina's room, he instantly hypnotizes her no sooner then seeing him, willingly exposing her neck and offering no resistance to his bite. Her vampire form even asks forgiveness from Gina for letting him "love her".

* AgeWithoutYouth: [[spoiler: What the Baron inflicts on his mother as, since she's already elderly, her undead form is stuck in the state she was in when she was killed once she resurrected.]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-Brides-of-Dracula-poster.jpg At least one poster]] associated with the film shows Dracula and a number of girls he most likely turned. (The one linked to also uses a flat-out lie in its hype, unless you read "Dracula" as synonym for "vampire".)
** The poster also seems to imply that more women were going to become vampires. At best only three of them fall under the Baron's bite.

* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler: The Baroness when Helsing finds her. Since the Baron doesn't enforce his will on her after turning her, she keeps her sense of self and utterly hates being a vampire. Knowing that she'll never go in the sun again, will have a hunger for blood every night and will eventually have to kill to survive. Even going out of her way to cover her mouth so her fangs won't show, showing how ashamed she of her transformation. When Helsing offers to "[[MercyKill free]]" her, she gladly takes it.]]

* ItsAllMyFault[=/=]HeelRealization: [[spoiler: The Baroness after she becomes a vampire and realizes that how she raised her son lead to his (and subsequently, her) vampized state.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Marianne constantly. She's goes with a complete stranger to her house even when the shopkeep tries to stop her, frees the Baron despite seeing him chained up, practically agrees to marry the Baron when they meet again ''despite having seen his mother dead body before her eyes''. Honestly, it's only through sheer luck she managed to avoid becoming a vampire in the movie.

* 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. Though that might be because her son has no interest in controlling her and only turned her into a vampire as revenge.]]

* VampiresAreSexGods

* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler: The Baroness when Helsing finds her. Since the Baron doesn't enforce his will on her after turning her, she keeps her sense of self and utterly hates being a vampire. Knowing that there she'll never go in the sun again, will have a hunger for blood every night and will eventually have to kill to survive. Even going out of her way to cover her mouth so her fangs won't show, showing how ashamed she of her transformation. When Helsing offers to "[[MercyKill free]]" her, she gladly takes it.]]

** Heck he could've even did so earlier in the movie after he was freed as, [[spoiler: after feeding on her mother]], could've easily fed on Marianne, who had no knowledge of vampires or what was going on, not shortly after and made her into a bride before focusing on the village. Instead, he goes after the village first, feeds on a girl and alerts the Priest and in turn, Helsing, to his presence.

* 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. Its also implied that the vampiric Gina and village girl died in the fire of the burning windmill but its never said out loud or shown.
** That guy was probably out there to spy for the Countess and let her know when a stranger showed up in town.

* AgeWithoutYouth: [[spoiler: What the Baron inflicts on his mother as, since she's already elderly, her undead form is stuck in he state she was when she was killed once she resurrected.]]

* ItsAllMyFault[=/=]HeelRealization: [[spoiler: The Baroness after she becomes a vampire and realizes that her how she raised her son lead to his (and subsequently, her) vampized state.]]

* SlasherSmile: The vampiric Gina does this upon seeing Marianne.

* 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 (or got Gina and the village girl to do it), got a major obstacle out of the way and carried on with his vampirism on the boarding school. But instead just chooses to bite him as a slow form of turning and leaves him be which gives time for Helsing to burn the vampire bite off his neck. What's more, when the Baron 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 front of Van Helsing. Helsing manages to recover long enough to counter and defeat him.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Marianne constantly. She's goes with a complete stranger to her house even when the shopkeep tries to stop her, frees the Baron despite seeing him chained up, practically agrees to marry the Baron when they meet again ''despite having seen his mother dead body before her eyes''. Honestly it's only through sheer luck she managed to avoid becoming a vampire in the movie.

* UndeathlyPallor: Both Gina and the village girl get this not long after their bodies after found when they're drained. It stays with them once they arise as vampires.

* 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 (or got Gina and the village girl to do it), got a major obstacle out of the way and carried on with his vampirism on the boarding school. But instead just chooses to bite him as a slow form of turning and leaves him be which gives time for Helsing to burn the vampire bite off his neck. What's more when the Baron 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 front of Van Helsing. Helsing manages to recover long enough to counter and defeat him.]]

* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Horses]]: After Gina is bitten, Helsing has her body moved to the horses stable before burial just to be on the safe side. As night falls, the horses sense Gina's transformation and start raising a fuss but as none of the charming school staff are familiar with vampires, they pay it no heed.

* [[MadwomanInTheAttic Mad Vampiric Son in the Attic]]

* BlondesAreEvil: The Baron.

* 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 (or got Gina and the village girl to do it) 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 which gives time for Helsing to burn the vampire bite off his neck. What's more when the Baron 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 front of Van Helsing. Helsing manages to recover long enough to counter and defeat him.]]

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 Film/HammerHorror film which served as a semi-sequel to ''Film/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.

* 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.

* TheRenfield: Greta.

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

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 Baron, shackled in his room, who convince Marianne that the Baroness is mad and talks her into freeing him. However unknown to Marianne, the Baron is actually a vampire that was bitten by Dracula long ago and the Baroness had him shackled for safekeeping. Now on the loose, The Baron 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.

* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Horses]]: After Gina is bitten, Helsing has her body moved to the horses stable before burial just to be on the safe side. As night falls, the horses sense Gina's transformation and start raising a fuss but as none of the characters are familiar with vampires, they pay it no heed.

* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Horses]]

* UndeathlyPallor: Both Gina and the village girl get this not long after their bodies after found when they're drained. Naturally, it stays with them once they arise as vampires.

* UndeathlyPallor: Both Gina and the village girl get this not long after their bodies after found when they're drained. It stay with them once they arises as vampires.

* 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 she wished the Baron had picked her. Cue the Baron, in vampire form, arriving into the room.

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 Franchise/HammerHorror film which served as a semi-sequel to ''Film/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.

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a 1960 HammerHorror film which served as a semi-sequel to ''Film/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.