Released on July 7th 1960 starring Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing and Yvonne Monlaur as French school teacher Marianne Danielle. Marianne travels to Tanslyvania to her new job at a school. When the bus abandons her short of her destination, she accpets the offer from Baroness Meinster to spend the night at her castle. At the castle, she seee's the Baroness' son, who is said to be insane and kept in a area of the castle off limits. After meeting the son, after he pleads for help Marianne set's him free only to release the vampires within the castle who blood suck innocent village girls who later rise from the grave as a vampire. This uprising evil bring Doctor Van Helsing into action to protect Marianne and the village civilians from the Baron and the Baroness. Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company founded in 1934, it is best known for a series of gothic horror films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s which include Dracula, The Vampire Lovers, The Mummy