Blacula

In 1780, the African prince Mamuwalde and his beloved wife Luva meet Count Dracula at his castle in Transylvania to request his support to end the slave trade. However, Dracula offends Mamuwalde and Luva and turns the prince into a vampire, cursing him with the name Blacula. Then he imprisons Blacula in a coffin in a chamber and leaves Luva also inside the chamber to die. In 1972, two gay interior decorators named Bobby McCoy and Billy Schaffer travel to Transylvania to buy some antiques, including Blacula's coffin, and ship the goods to Los Angeles. When they open the coffin, they are attacked by Blacula, who is thirsty for blood. Soon, Blacula sees Tina, who is the spitting image of Luva, at the funeral home where the wake of Bobby McCoy will be held and believes she is Luva's reincarnation. Blacula meets Tina at a night club, where she is celebrating the anniversary of her sister Michelle and her husband, Dr. Gordon Thomas. Dr. Thomas is a pathologist in the LAPD who believes that the last few recent deaths in L.A. have been caused by a vampire and is seeking evidence to prove to his colleague, Lt. Jack Peters, that the fiend does exist.