It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Patrick Troughton, and Michael Gwynn.

Although disparaged by some critics, the film does restore a few elements of Bram Stoker's original character: the Count is introduced as an "icily charming host;"[3] he has command over nature; and he is seen scaling the walls of his castle.

Elsewhere, libertine Paul Carlson is falsely accused of rape and flees the Kleinenberg authorities by jumping into a coach which, though driverless, heads off at great speed.

Walking in the forest, he finds the driverless coach, which the returning Klove, Dracula's servant, drives back to the castle.

Dracula appears and, casually throwing off Paul's efforts to stop him, stabs Tania through the heart with a dagger for betraying him.

Locked in the room high in the castle, Paul uses tied-together bed curtains to climb down to a lower window, but the line is withdrawn by Klove and he finds himself in the Count's chamber.

However, the priest is attacked and killed by a vampire bat, and Simon is betrayed by Klove, ending up in the same doorless, inescapable room as his brother.

Opening the coffin in the middle of the room, Simon discovers the sleeping Dracula, but the vampire's power reaches through his closed eyelids, causing the human to collapse before being able to take action against the Count.

Just then, Klove arrives on the battlements and attacks the Count with the dagger that murdered Tania, but the servant is outmatched by Dracula's inhuman strength and is thrown over the side of the castle.

Unharmed, the Count raises the spike to impale Simon, but it is struck by lightning and Dracula is engulfed in flames.

Staggering in agony, the Count collapses and topples over the castle's battlements, falling to the ground far below, where his corpse continues to burn.

The disc also features a running commentary, with Christopher Lee and director Roy Ward Baker hosted by Marcus Hearn (co-author of The Hammer Story) .

Howard Thompson of The New York Times, reviewing the film along with the other half of the double bill, Horror of Frankenstein, stated that audiences should avoid Scars of Dracula "like the plague," calling it "garish, gory junk".