Der Grosse Kurfurst (1902)

A tired and impoverished family of four on the brink of financial collapse and sick of the decaying society they lived in are awakened from their dreary self-loathing lives one day when a lawyer from a small town in Mississippi comes to their front door and informs them that they have inherited a mansion and a sizeable bank account from a recently deceased relative. Jack and his small family who are excited by the wondrous news hastily pack up their few belongings and move into their dream home with dreams of a new life. Thinking that their lives have changed for the better and beginning to enjoy their newly found fortune, their dreams are suddenly shattered when the mansion’s sadistic overseer Ulrich reveals to them that they have entered into a vampire community as slaves and that they can never leave.