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Box is in fine shape and this movie is now only available as a blu-ray double feature. No longer being manufactured as a stand-alone disc. Cassette is nice and clean with a foil security sticker on the right endcap assuring you of first generation quality. Pre-viewed for such and the leader before the preview was a liitle fuzzy so I adjusted the tracking and it looked fine. Feature played great with a very quick rolling line just before the end credits start. This full screen VHS version is perfect for older square model TV sets as the image will fill your square screen. After an 1897 snippet, recreating the famous dead-captain-lashed-to-the-mast voyage of the Demeter, the film picks up the story in London in 2000. "Antiques dealer" Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer), arch-enemy of Dracula, has been keeping himself alive for a century with leech-mediated infusions of the vampire's blood, in order to guard the coffined, still-living corpse of the apparently undestroyable creature (Gerard Butler). One of Van Helsings assistants, Solina (Jennifer Esposito), assumes that his highly-secure vault contains something valuable and helps a team of thieves (led by Omar Epps) steal the coffin. In a private jet flying to the US, the coffin is opened and Dracula emerges, killing all the thieves and transforming them into vampires. Van Helsing and Simon Shepard (Johnny Lee Miller), a more trustworthy assistant, follow Dracula to New Orleans, where the vampire has been infiltrating the dreams of Van Helsing's estranged daughter Mary (Justine Waddell), inheritor of the taint of his blood and potentially his mate. Dracula vampirises TV reporter Valerie Sharp (Jeri Ryan) and Mary's best friend Lucy (Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick), then pursues Mary through Mardi Gras. Through her mental link with Dracula, Mary learns that the first vampire in the world is Judas Iscariot, cursed after his betrayal of Christ--hence the vampire aversion to crosses, wood and silver.