Thanks Ted for the info!!!!! I don't  know much about the development of the movie or the script. Whoever the script writers were, however,  did a good job on developing Peels character. I saw alot of posts on this thread describing how turning his mother into a vampire was so fiendish, which it was, but the way she reacts to it really helps to difine Peels character. Unlike her son, she is horrified at what she has become and what she may be forced to do. She happily awaits for the peace that Van Helsing can give her and has no desire to be vampire. I don't think I've seen any charcacter of like her in any other Hammer Vampire movie and in being such a reticent vampire, magnifies the evilness of her son