Dracula

Matthew Van Helsing, the alleged descendant 

of the famed 19th century

 Dutch physician Abraham Van Helsing, 

owns an antique shop built over the site of 

Carfax Abbey in London in 2000. 

One night, 

 his secretary, Solina, allows a group of thieves, 

led by her boyfriend, Marcus, into the shop. 

The thieves infiltrate the shop's underground 

high-security vault and

 find a sealed silver coffin protected by a deadly defense system. 

Based on the level of security surrounding the coffin, 

Solina and Marcus decide that the coffin's 

contents must be valuable,

 so they escape with it and flee to New Orleans.

 When Van Helsing discovers that the coffin has been stolen, 

he boards a plane to America, telling his apprentice, 

Simon Sheppard, to remain in London.

 Simon does not follow these instructions and follows his mentor.

Aboard the plane, one of the thieves manages to open the coffin, 

revealing the dormant body of Count Dracula. 

Dracula awakens and attacks the thieves, 

causing the plane to crash in the Louisiana swamps. 

Dracula survives the crash and travels to New Orleans, 

where college students Mary Heller and Lucy 

Westerman are living. 

Mary is estranged from her family and has 

recently been plagued by nightmares 

of a strange, terrifying man.

Van Helsing and Simon arrive in New Orleans and destroy 

the newly turned vampires left in Dracula's wake, 

except Solina and Marcus. 

Afterwards, Van Helsing reveals to Simon that he is in 

fact the original Abraham 

Van Helsing, who defeated Dracula in 1897.

 Because he was unable to destroy 

Dracula permanently, 

Van Helsing hid the body and prolonged his own life 

with regular injections of Dracula's blood filtered .

Van Helsing also tells Simon about his daughter,

 Mary, who was taken from 

England by her mother after the truth about 

his identity came to light. 

Since Mary was conceived after 

Van Helsing began his injections, 

she shares blood and a telepathic link with Dracula,

 who senses her existence and is in New Orleans to find her.

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