Synopsis for
Blacula (1972) More at IMDbPro »

It is Transylvania 1870. The Black Prince Manuwalde [William Marshall] and his wife Tuva [Vonetta McGee] dine with Dracula [Charles Macauley] at Castle Dracula, until they become the feast. When Manuwalde resists, Dracula curses him to be "Blacula...like myself...a living fiend...never to know that sweet blood which shall be your only desire." Dracula seals Blacula in an inescapable tomb.

It is now Transylvania 1970. Two antique dealers buy some items from Dracula's castle and ship them to L.A. One of the items is a coffin from which Manuwalde/Blacula emerges after his 100 year sleep. Manuwalde feeds on them. At their funeral, Manuwalde notices Tina, who looks like his exwife Tuva, and he pursues her, but she eludes him. Tina and Manuwalde meet again later at a club and fall in love. Meanwhile, a lot of blood-drained bodies are showing up around L.A., and Dr Gordon Thomas [Thalmus Rasulala] is concerned. He talks Michelle [Denise Nichols] into digging up one of the antique dealers, and they find that he has become a vampire. They begin to suspect Manuwalde and go in search of his coffin. Manuwalde has made Tina a vampire, and Thomas and Michelle stake her, thinking she is the vampire. Distraught over Tina's death, Manuwalde goes out onto the sunny roof and dies.