History Film / TheBridesOfDracula

* Fainting: Marianne. She faints out of exhaustion after fleeing from Baron Meinster's castle, and then again in Van Helsing's arms when arrives in time to save her from a now vampirized Gina.

* WouldHurtaGirl: After rescuing a terrified Marianne from a now undead Gina ( and having her faint in his arms in the process ), Van Helsing carries her back to the school. Upon learning that Gina is one of the Baron Meinster's victims, Marianne is in denial, although Van Helsing assures her that he would never lie to her. All throughout most of the movie, he has been shown to be a well mannered gentleman. However, when Marianne still refuses to accept the truth and tell him where Baron Meinster is hiding ( since she clearly knows ) he becomes impatient and grabs her face in both his hands, his voice becoming harsh as he demands an answer.

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* VillainBall: The Baron grasps it several time in the film. For one, after he was freed and [[spoiler: after feeding on her mother]], he could have easily fed on Marianne and made her into a bride not shortly after. Considering she had no knowledge of vampires or what was going on and no one knowing her whereabouts (with Greta certainly not interested in stopping the Baron), it was more then an ample opportunity to turn her. Instead, he goes after the village first, feeds on a girl and alerts the Priest and in turn, Helsing, to his presence. Only then does he try to turn his attention back to Marianne.
** In the climax, he essentially had already won. 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 ''again'' 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.

* 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.]]
** Heck, he could've even did so earlier in the movie after he was freed as [[spoiler: after feeding on her mother]], he could have easily fed on Marianne and made her into a bride not shortly after. Considering she had no knowledge of vampires or what was going on and no one knowing her whereabouts (with Greta certainly not interested in stopping the Baron), it was more then an ample opportunity to turn her. Instead, he goes after the village first, feeds on a girl and alerts the Priest and in turn, Helsing, to his presence. Only then does he try to turn her.

* DamselinDistress: Marianne; Van Helsing has to rescue her on more than one occasion throughout the film.

* VampiresHarem: The Baron sets about creating one no sooner then he's freed. First turning a local village girl, then [[spoiler: Gina]] before seeking to add Marianne to his sway. It's likely if Helsing hadn't arrived when he did, he would've targeted the charm school not long after.

* VampireHarem: The Baron sets about creating one no sooner then he's freed. First turning a local village girl, then [[spoiler: Gina]] before seeking to add Marianne to his sway. It's likely if Helsing hadn't arrived when he did, he would've targeted the charm school not long after.

* WomanInWhite: Both the village girl and Gina are buried in white gowns and arise as vampires with them to give them an air of corruption to their purity.

** After the village girl arises as a vampire. Greta tries to hold of Helsing and the Priest to give her some moments to get away. She does so by turning into a bat and flying away.

* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler: The Baroness when Helsing finds her. Since the Baron doesn't enforce his control on her after turning her, she keeps her sense of self and utterly hates being a vampire. Knowing that she'll never go into the sun again, will have a hunger for blood every night and will eventually have to kill to survive while never aging further. 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.]]

* BittersweetEnding: The Baron is stopped and Marianne avoids joining the undead. But is likely traumatized by the entire event as she lost a new friend during the events. What's more, there's no confirmation that Gina and the village girl died in the burning windmill. Meaning they likely escaped and are still at large in the village. Sure, Helsing is still in the area but it may be awhile to find the two before they'll feed on others, especially since Gina will likely target the boarding school.

* BittersweetEnding: The Baron is stopped and Marianne avoids joining the undead. But is likely traumatized by the entire event as she lost a new friend during the events. What's more, there's no confirmation of Gina and the village girl died in the burning windmill and likely to have escape and are still at large in the village. Sure Helsing is still in the area but it may be awhile to find the two before they'll feed on others and make them vampires.

* TranshumanTreachery: The village girl and Gina instantly become evil upon awakening as vampires. Emphasised with the father of the former stating how good a sister she was to her younger sibling and showing how kind the latter was as a human. When the latter becomes a vampire, she is completely seductive and has no problem with trying to bite Marianne (though does try to ask to let Marianne do it willingly). [[spoiler: 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.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:"You haven't forgotten your little Gina, have you?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:276:"You haven't forgotten your little Gina, have you?"]]

* IdiotBall: It's pretty much Marianne's job to carry this around.

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

* 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 only knowing him for like a day and a half and doesn't keep the cross Helsing on her at all time despite ''clearly being told he was a vampire'' and almost being bitten by a newly vampirized Gina. Honestly, it's only through sheer luck she managed to avoid becoming a vampire in the movie.

''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. Creator/ChristoperLee did not reprise his role as the Count due to fear of getting typecast. 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 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 due to fear of getting typecast. 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 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.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After the Baron proposes to Marianne, Gina and she have some girl time that night and talk about her engagment. When Marianne leaves the room for something, Gina wishes that the Baron had picked her. She gets her wish when the Baron, in vampire form, comes into the room and drains her, turning her into a walking corpse.

* TranshumanTreachery: The village girl and Gina instantly become evil upon awakening as vampires. [[spoiler: 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.]]

* BreakingAndBloodsucking: How [[spoiler: poor Gina loses her humanity.]]