- A cursed crucifix helps a husband exact revenge on the vampire who stole his bride during their honeymoon in 1969.
- After a vampire takes his wife, Kurt Bachman spends 20 years hunting down vampires. He acquires a cursed antique, the Cross of Fire, that lets him easily destroy vampires. However, when he finds his wife, Michele, Kurt discovers that vampirism is more attractive than he thought.—Gislef
- Twenty years ago, the Blackmans, Kurt [Michael Burgess] and Michele [Genevieve Langlois] were on their honeymoon. After sharing a romantic, candlelit dinner outdoors, they went for a walk. As they stopped for a kiss, they heard the flapping of wings. Suddenly, a vampire swooped down, knocked Kurt to the ground, bit Michele, and carried her off as Kurt watched helplessly.
Kurt has spent the last 20 years hunting vampires. One night, he follows a vampire into an alley where he stakes her, after which he hears a familiar sound--the leathery flutter of a vampire's wings-- following him. Kurt breaks into St Mark's Church looking for protection. When he sees the Cross of Fire, a relic from the Crusades, he takes it. The parish priest, Father McDermott, tries to stop him. As they struggle, a knife blade ejects from the bottom of the cross [common in medieval times when such protection was used by traveling monks] and accidentally stabs Fr McDermott in the chest. Father Finn rushes in to help the dying priest, and Kurt runs away with the cross. The next night, Kurt follows Evan Van Hellier [Eric Murphy], the vampire who stole his wife, to the Neon Gargoyle, an exclusive nightclub known to cater to strange types. When Kurt tries to get in, he is refused entry. When the vampire doorman tries to rough him up, Kurt holds out the cross, which suddenly emits a jet of fire and totally incinerates the vampire.
Jack is devastated when he hears about Fr McDermott's death, since the priest was a friend of his. Who would kill a priest over a cross? Micki checks Uncle Louis's inventory list and finds that Louis sold a Cross of Fire to one Walter Drake, who later donated the cross to St Mark's. When news of the doorman's death makes it into the morning paper, Micki adds up all the strange deaths that have been reported in that neighborhood--bodies drained of blood, a woman found in an alley with a stake through her heart, Father McDermott stabbed by the Cross of Fire, and now the incinerated doorman--and she wonders whether there might be a connection. Jack concurs. He sends Micki and Johnny to talk with Father Finn, who tells them that the Cross of Fire is from a Hungarian Church near Transylvania. Legend says it was used to bless a member of the congregation who then offered himself to save the village from a vampire. Because the newspaper article mentions that the incinerated body was found by club owner Evan Van Hellier, Jack pays Evan a visit. Unfortunately, Evan isn't available and his renfield doesn't know anything about the Cross of Fire. So who has the cross now?
Kurt has figured out that, when the blade on the cross is used to kill someone, the ability of the cross to incinerate vampires is activated. That night, he breaks into Van Hellier's mansion, in the process stabbing a guard with the crossblade. He attempts to use the cross against Evan, but before it can work, Evan flies out the door. Searching the mansion, Kurt comes across two female vampires sharing their blood with each other. He fries one of them with the cross and then turns to the other, only to find that it's Michele. Kurt takes Michele to the basement of an abandoned warehouse where he puts her in chains and places her inside some mosquito netting which is supposed to protect her from all the crosses and garlic he has hanging from the ceiling. Evan tries to break in to save Michele but is weakened by the crosses and garlic and has to leave. Michele begs Kurt to let her go because she'll die if she doesn't feed, but Kurt refuses. "I won't lose you twice," he explains, and later he brings back a hooker from whom Michele can feed.
The next evening, after attending Fr McDermott's funeral, Jack and Micki return to the shop. Evan Van Hellier pays them a visit. After his encounter with Kurt, Evan has become interested in the Cross of Fire. He makes up a story about renting a warehouse to Kurt Blackman who showed him a cross with a knife blade. While they are talking, Jack glances in a mirror and notices that Van Hellier casts no reflection, but Jack says nothing. After Evan leaves, Jack, Micki, and Johnny go to the warehouse, wrest the cross away from Kurt, and leave. Realizing that, without the cross, he has no way to protect Michele from Van Hellier, Kurt has Michele make him into a vampire, too. Realizing that, without the cross, Kurt is a sitting duck to Van Hellier, Micki runs back into the warehouse. Evan, who has been watching all along from his car and knows that Kurt is no longer in possession of the cross, goes into the warehouse after Michele. In the melee that ensues--vampire vs vampire vs Micki, Johnny, and Jack--Kurt stakes Evan, causing him to turn to dust, and Jack splashes Kurt with holy water, causing him to burst into flames. When Jack turns the holy water on Michele, he seems to have a change of heart, tosses away the bottle, and walks off.
Epilogue: Johnny wonders why Jack let a vampire get away, especially when he had the chance to use the holy water on her. The only reason Micki can offer is "He let her live another day. Whatever she does with that is up to her." Meanwhile, Jack is seated on a bench watching the sunrise over the ocean. Talking to himself, he says, "I wish I had their wisdom. Some of them have lived for thousands of years--seen the building of the pyramids, the glory of the Roman Empire--and must understand more than we do. God help me, I almost envy them." [Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]
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