Monster Force

Monster Force is a 13-episode animated television series created in 1994 by Universal Cartoon Studios and Canadian studio Lacewood Productions. The story is set in approximately 2020 and centers on a group of teenagers led by Dr. Reed Crawley, who had fought Dracula a number of times. With help of high tech weaponry, the Monster Force fight against classic Universal Monsters, such as Dracula and the Wolfman, and spiritual beings threatening humanity.

Dark Deception (Episode 5)
The Monster Force travel to Transylvania to research the history of Dracula and vampires; there they rescue an older hunter named Abraham Stoker from vampires. Stoker chastises Crawley and the Monster Force for using technology to contain and cure monsters. Stoker states he's going to Castle Dracul to hunt Dracula; the Monster Force offer to go with him as they were headed there. In Castle Dracula, Stoker again chastises Crawley and the Force for their technology before they enter the crypt where Dracula's vampire servants rest. They awaken them, fight the vampires, and put them into a containment field; Stoker, however, destroys the device and frees the vampires. As Stoker and the Force head deeper into the castle, they split up to explore the castle. One by one the Monster force is captured in the rooms they explore; only Crawley and Stoker remain uncaptured. Eventually, Stoker and Crawley end up in a crypt, where Crawley discovers the Monster Force are in trances in the coffin. Stoker eventually reveals that he is Dracula, who killed Stoker a long time ago and took his form to trap Crawley. Dracula plans to turn the Monster Force into his vampire servants and have them destroy Crawley; Dracula, under Renfield's suggestion, goes to turn Mary Shelly, but before he can, the Frankenstein Monster comes in to fight Dracula. The fight between goes out of the crypt and onto a ledge, where Dracula is exposed to sunlight and flees; as he leaves, the Monster Force awake from their trances and must flee the castle as it collaspes.

Dark City (Episode 7)
Two bicyclists happen to stumble upon a city after being caught in the rain; the city looks normal with people walking about one of them coming in front of the cyclists. The doors of the town shut, the man turns into a monster and attacks the cyclists. The cyclists stumbled into the Dark City, a legendary city that appears every 100 years never in the same place. The Monster Force looks for the city in Spain but is hampered by the solar interference that comes with the Sun that heralds the City's arrival. The City's appearance comes with the disappearances of villages and towns in the area. The Monster Force go to Germany to get the Frankenstein Monster, only to not find him as he felt the evil of the Dark City and headed to Spain to confront it. The Monster Force goes to Spain and drives into the Dark City; just before Shelley is hit with a vision of the City and its true form but collapses. A doctor visits Shelley but suddenly disappears after he leaves the room. The Monster Force decides to leave but the hall morphs into a mouth with tentacles that try to pull Reed and Lance in; at the same time, a beautiful woman lures Luke out of the van only to turn into a monster. The Force then realizes the town is alive; the town sends out a hypnotic signal that has the people in a nearby town head to it. The Frankenstein Monster tries to stop them but they are under the City's control; he instead breaks the rope bridge and prevents the people from crossing over to the town. The Monster Force must fight their way out of the town as it comes alive and tries to devour them and keep them until midnight when the city will disappear with them. The Force figures out the city is weak to lightning and seeding a lightning storm uses Frankenstein to blow a hole in the main gate and escape.