THE SHE BEAST

In present-day Vaubrac, Transylvania, Count von Helsing reads a historical narrative from two hundred years before about the execution of Vardella, a woman accused of witchcraft. As she dies she swears vengeance for her murder.

Shifting to present day, a young, newly married British couple, Philip and Veronica, are traveling on their honeymoon and book a room in a hotel owned by alcoholic and voyeur Ladislav Groper.

While Groper carries their bags to the room, the couple has tea outdoors at a picnic table, and soon is approached by von Helsing, who seems anxious to befriend them and to relate the history of the Draculas to them. In the process, he recounts the story and curse of Vardella but the listeners find none of this interesting. He invites himself back the next day and Veronica tells him to come at noon, knowing they plan to be on their way at dawn.

In their room, Philip discovers Groper is peeping on them through the window. After beating up Groper and drawing blood, Philip wants to leave immediately but Veronica prefers to stay the night as planned.

The next day on the road, Philip loses steering control of the car, causing him to drive into a lake; a passing truck driver assists in retrieving what should have been Veronica but to his horror, is a monstrous corpse that looks a lot like the aforementioned Vardella, which he quickly wraps up.

To his great relief, von Helsing reassures Philip that he can help him get his wife back. Having little choice Philip begins to believe in von Helsing and what he says.

Meanwhile Vardella comes alive and goes on a killing spree against the descendants of the people who killed her two hundred years before, at which point von Helsing comes upon the scene and uses a syringe to drug her. After hiding her in the hotel, the Count and Philip go to pick up some ritual tools to exorcise Vardella, the one way that she can be changed back into Veronica.

After being jailed, the truck driver who found Vardella makes a deal to tell police where the body is in exchange for his freedom. He leads the police back to the hotel, where they find the now-alive, drugged body appearing dead. The police intend to have it autopsied, which would ruin any chances of getting Veronica back.

Philip and the Count manage to retrieve the body and steal the police van which it is in. Vardella awakens from her drugged state and von Helsing drugs her again, as well as the police officers which have now caught the van.

In the nick of time, two hundred years to the minute since, and in the same place as, the murder of Vardella, Philip and the Count perform the exorcism ritual at the lake. It is unclear if they succeed in bringing back Veronica.