- A vampire who works as a taxi driver meets and romances a young woman whom he turns into a fellow vamp, which prompts her jealous and estranged husband to try to kill both of them.
- Night brings out the hunger in people, especially a mysterious NY cab driver. He is a powerful vampire. And working the night shift brings a sultry array of sensuous passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he controls an erratic but well-balanced vampire realm. Then unexpectedly, he discovers erotic human passion-unleashing a raging, terrorizing evil. After a slew of innocent citizens are senselessly slaughtered, the baffled police must solve a 350 year old mystery of unsated passion.—Colonel Sir Harry Flashman VC <col_flashman@earthlink.net>
- Stephen Tsepes (Silvio Oliviero) is a 350-year-old vampire who works as a taxi driver for the shadowy Black Cat taxicab company and drives his taxi through New York City working the all night (graveyard shift) as his way to make a living while at the same time pick up and kill people to drink their blood. He finds many a victim with his occupation, but his life changes one night when one of his pick up riders is Michelle Hayden (Helen Papas) a movie director from Toronto currently living in New York to work on a latest film. Steven quickly falls in love with Michelle.
Michelle is revealed to be dying of some unnamed and incurable illness and she is afraid to die. At the same time, Stephen is tired to his immortality and wants to die, but is also afraid of the 'true death'.
Several of Stephen's victims are erotic dancers from a local strip club whom he keeps hidden at the film set (which is a horror film) in wooden box coffins.
Meanwhile, investigating the various murders are two police detectives, Winsome (John Haslett Cuff) and Smith (Don James) who begin to (mistakenly) suspect Michelle's husband Eric (Cliff Stoker) of what is going on and are skeptic to Eric's theories about a vampire being involved when many of the murder victims are found drained of blood.... and that the bodies vanish from the morgue afterwords.
With the police unable to help him, Eric meets and turns to a certain private investigator named Robert Kopple (Dan Rose), who is also a reputed vampire hunter-killer, to find the vampire responsible for the killings in the city. Robert investigates the location where the victims were found from accessing the local police reports and learns that they are connected to the Black Cat Cab company.
Eric and Robert manage to track down Steven to his lair, but he gives them the slip and instead kills Detective Smith when confronted, which Detective Winsome yet again mistakenly thinks that Eric and his friend Robert are responsible.
Eric and Robert end up at a local film studio set where a horror film is being filmed where Steven has Gilda (Dorin Ferber) bite and infect Michelle who willingly requests to become a vampire to live forever. Eric and Robert show up where Robert kills Gilda by stabbing her with a wooden stake through her heart before confronting Steven. The vampire tells Eric and Robert about his lifestyle and unable to have a choice in his lifestyle to kill and feed on blood, until after a short struggle, Robert stakes and kills Steven as well. But all of Steven's female victims, vampires themselves, appear and literally tear Robert apart before going after Eric. Just when the vampires are about to kill and eat Eric, he manages to get open one of the studio exit doors and the sunlight kills all of the vampires present, except for Michelle who lays in a coma during her transitional period. Realizing that his wife is dying and will rise again as one of the blood-sucking undead, Eric prepares to stake and kill Michelle until Detective Winsome run in and shoots and kills Eric, still thinking that he is responsible for all of the murders.
In the final scene, Michelle, now a vampire herself, is seen working as a taxicab driver for Black Cat Cab company and prepares to pick up her first client (and victim) for the night.
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