Dracula’s Widow is a 1988 vampire thriller film directed by Christopher Coppola, written by Tom Blomquist as Kathryn Ann Thomas, and starring Sylvia Kristel, Josef Sommer and Lenny von Dohlen.
Later that evening, at a Jazz bar called The Blue Angel, a sleazy but lonely patron hits on a mysterious dark-haired woman who wanders in.
The thief’s throat is ripped open, and his blood is drained by a long tentacle emitted from the creature’s mouth.
After a very short battle of wills, Raymond is taken possession of (with a bite) and forced to renounce his girlfriend, Jenny Harker.
This time it is a night watchman ironically watching a news report about the park murder at the onset of his death.
The police receive a valuable part of the puzzle from the frazzled burglar who witnessed his accomplice’s death at the wax museum the previous night.
Later, through Van Helsing’s aged grandson, we learn that all vampires were destroyed with the exception of Vanessa, who is the true wife of Dracula.
There, Lannon meets Van Helsing’s elderly grandson, who tells him that vampires, not devil worshippers are to blame.
With a wooden stake and mallet, Helsing makes Lannon a believer as the victim is briefly reanimated at the moment of his true death.