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AFTER DRACULA

AFTER DRACULA
By Douglas A. Raine

GENRE: Western, Horror
LOGLINE:

A Cowboy, whose younger brother killed Dracula, tracks the Mexican Vampire Queen that killed their parents. The Cowboy and his band of varied characters must stop her before she turns the southwest into her feeding ground.

SYNOPSIS:

1898, a year after Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel… American Cowboy, JACKSON “JACK” MORRIS (39) visits the office of solicitor Johnathan Harker. Harker provides the ashes of Jack’s younger brother, the man who killed Dracula. Jack hears the story and is given his brother’s personal effects.

In the Southwest desert, Jack’s half-brother, CARLOS, a Yaqui Indian tracker, follows wolf tracks… that change into footprints. Later he comes across a massacre scene where some cowboys have been eviscerated and drained of blood by the Vampire Queen, XITLALI.

Jack receives a telegram from Carlos and travels back to the States, toward his ranch in Arizona. He is followed by a mysterious LADY BATHORY, who shuns sunlight and is protected by her Gurkha guard, DAHAL.

Carlos tracks Xitlali to a house in a border town. Carlos observes the best time to attack the house. He bursts in and is attacked by a grandfather, turned vampire. After killing the vampire, he rescues a young girl, PAZ. Xitlali blocks his exit. He fires silver bullets into her, stunning her so he can escape.

On the train ride across the plains, Jack confronts his pursuers, Harker has hired them to aid in the hunt for the vampire. The train is attacked by GITANOS, Spanish Gypsies living in Mexico. The attack on the roof and inside the train is relentless, but Jack and Dahal survive. Jack and Lady Bathory realize the Gitanos are servants of the Vampire Queen.

Jack and his group meet with Carlos and devise a plan to attack the house again. But, there are more vampires, and the Gitanos block our heroes inside the house with burning wagons. They barely escape. Rushing to the mission where the girl was held in safety… they find the Padre dead and the girl gone. She was taken by the Gitanos and Xitlali, to Tucson, where a population of nearly 10,000 will become Xitlali’s feeding ground.

Jack finds out that Lady Bathory is a Damphire, a human-vampire crossbreed with powers that can destroy Xitlali. But he learns Lady Bathory’s father was Dracula, and she may seek to avenge her father’s death. Is that why Xitlali and the Gitanos always seem one step ahead?

Jack and his group bypass an ambush and arrive in Tucson. They use an immense wagon shop, with forges and steam milling operations as their base. There, they create specialty weapons and design a trap, to battle Xitlali and the Gitanos.

Jack leads an attack on Xitlali. They recover the girl, Paz, and lead Xitlali and the Gitanos back to the carriage shop. The battle is fierce and encompasses all three stories of the shop. Giant drive wheels and belts run steam hydraulics. Dahal is killed. Carlos is badly wounded but attacks Lady Bathory, when it seems she is about to kill Jack. Xitlali corners Jack and is about to kill him when the blood from Lady Bathory drips onto Xitlali and like acid burns her to a crisp as Quinton plunges his brother’s knife… the knife that killed Dracula, deep into the heart of Xitlali, her body turns to dust.

Jack returns to Lady Bathory. He steals the blood flow and gets her to a doctor. A transfusion revives her. Jack ends his days with Lady Bathory. In pictures, she seems not to age. Paz is adopted and as Jack dies of old age, his youthful wife disappears from history.

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