 The story opens in 1911 at Dr.Seward s sanitarium. A sensual and charismatic vampire known as Count Dracula has already slain Lucy Westenra and several other girls on the English countryside. Abraham Van Helsing with the help of Dr.Cedric Seward,Lord Gordon Godalming,Jonathan Harker and Freudian psychiatrist Helga Van Zandt and the reluctant Thomas Renfield try to stop Count Dracula from making Lucy s friend Mina his next willing victim.