Dracula Lives#1(1973)

Dracula has come to Manhattan to investigate a newspaper article about Jackson Kubbard, the founder of Mysticology Inc., wherein Kubbard claims to be the reincarnation of Dracula's hated enemy Cagliostro. Dracula intends to learn the truth and if need be slay the mystic who has plagued him for so many centuries. Needing to sate his blood lust, Dracula attacks a man on the street, however to Dracula's misfortune this man is a junkie who's blood was tainted with heroin. Realizing what had happened, Dracula succumbs to the drug's effects and passes out. Dracula wakes up in a jail cell next to a man who was arrested before he could shoot up. Dracula feeds upon this fresh victim to cleanse himself of the tainted blood in his system and escapes out the barred windows in the form of a bat and continues his mission. Tracking Kubbard, Dracula goes to the a popular coffee shop and spots a young woman named Madeline Rogers. Dracula is drawn to the amulet that she is wearing her that identifies her as a Mysticologist that follows Kubbard's teachings. Learning from her that Kubbard has planned a gathering for that night, she agrees to take Dracula along with her. Along the way, Dracula is suddenly wracked with pain, and realizes that he is going through heroin withdrawal from the blood he drank from the junkie earlier that evening. Dracula fights off the pain and the two take a cab the rest of the way, as Dracula reflects on his travels from Europe to Manhattan. Arriving at the theater where Kubbard is planning on putting on his next performance, Dracula witnesses a sacrifice in progress. However, before Kubbard kills the woman on the altar, he stops and spreads his message and boasts that he is the reincarnation of Cagliostro before resigning for the evening. Dracula has Madeline take him backstage to attempt to seek an audience with Kubbard. However the bouncer refuses to let them pass until Dracula uses his hypnotic will on him allowing Dracula passage, but leaving Rogers behind, who leaves feeling rejected. Inside Kubbard's room, Dracula confronts him to learn the truth and Kubbard admits that he is nothing more than a fraud. Furious, and craving untainted blood, Dracula attacks Kubbard and feeds upon him. Kubbard's dying screams bring Madeline and the police coming to the property. Dracula easily fights past the police and is confronted by Madeline. Dracula admits that he used her for his own ends and that she is fortunate to still have her life. Dracula then turns into bat form and returns to the ship where his coffin waits for him to begin his daily rest leaving Madeline Rogers to return home to find her own direction in life.