THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES

In 1804 Transylvania, Taoist monk Kah, the high priest of the Temple of the Seven Golden Vampires in rural China, travels through the countryside to Castle Dracula. There, Kah summons Count Dracula. The Seven Golden Vampires' power is fading and Kah needs Dracula to restore them to their former glory. Dracula decides to help on one condition: that he uses Kah's body to escape the castle, which has become his prison. Despite Kah's pleas for mercy, Dracula displaces himself into Kah's body and leaves the tomb for China.

A century later, Professor Abraham Van Helsing gives a lecture at a Chungking university on Chinese vampire legends. He mentions an unknown rural village that has been terrorised by a cult of seven known as the Seven Golden Vampires. A farmer named Hsi Tien-en trekked to their temple and battled them. Tsien-en was unsuccessful, and his wife died in the fight, but he managed to grab a medallion from a vampire's neck, which he saw as the creatures' life source. Tsien-en then fled, but Kah sent the vampires and their turned victims after him. About to be cornered, Tsien-en placed the medallion around a small jade Buddha statue before the vampires killed him. A vampire spied the medallion around the Buddha and went over to collect it. However, after touching the Buddha, the vampire burst into flames.

Van Helsing thinks that the village still exists and is terrorized by the six remaining vampires; he is only unsure of where it lies. Most of the professors he has gathered disbelieve the story and leave, but one young man, Hsi Ching, informs Van Helsing that the farmer from the story was his grandfather. Hsi Ching produces the medallion and asks Van Helsing if he would be willing to travel to the village and destroy the vampires. Van Helsing agrees and embarks with his son Leyland, Hsi Ching, and his seven kung fu-trained siblings on a journey funded by Vanessa Buren, a wealthy widow whom Leyland and two of Ching's siblings, Kwei and Ta, saved from an attack by the tongs.

En route, the group are ambushed by three of the six vampires in a cave, along with their army of undead. The group are engaged in battle and eventually destroy three vampires and the undead retreat. The following morning, the party reaches the village, partly ruined but still populated, and prepares to make their final stand. They use wooden stakes as barriers and dig a trench around them filled with flammable liquid. In the temple that evening, Dracula, still disguised as Kah, calls on the remaining vampires to kill Van Helsing and his party. The vampires reach the village, and Van Helsing's group once again battle with the last of the golden vampires and their army, resulting in a fight that kills two vampires, many undead servants, various villagers, and several of Van Helsing's companions. During the fight, Vanessa is bitten by a vampire and becomes one herself. She bites Ching, who throws himself and Vanessa onto a wooden stake, impaling them both.

During the battle, the last remaining vampire takes Ching's sister Mai Kwei to the temple to drain her of her blood. Leyland steals a horse from a dead vampire and pursues. The army of undead defeated, Van Helsing and Mei's remaining brothers follow to help Leyland at the temple. There, the vampire straps Mai Kwei to an altar. It is about to drain her blood when Leyland intervenes. Before Leyland can be drained, Van Helsing's party bursts in, and he destroys the last vampire. All of the survivors leave the temple, save for Van Helsing, who feels a familiar presence and comes to face Dracula in Kah's body. Discovered, Dracula reveals his true form and attacks Van Helsing. In the ensuing struggle, Van Helsing stabs Dracula through the heart with a silver spear, causing the Count to turn to dust.

Van Helsing and his allies destroy the remaining Golden Vampires and confront Dracula, ultimately defeating him and ending the reign of terror in the village.

The film concludes with the combined forces of Western vampire hunting and Eastern martial arts overcoming Dracula’s supernatural evil. The ending underscores the blending of traditions and genres, as Van Helsing’s methods and the kung fu warriors’ skills are both essential to vanquishing the monsters. The demise of Dracula and the vampires brings closure to the villagers’ ordeal and ties up the film’s central conflict with a satisfyingly supernatural showdown.