DARK, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS NARRATOR: The year 1462. Constantinople had fallen. Muslim Turks swept into Europe with a vast, superior force, striking at Romania, threatening all of Christendom. From Transylvania arose a Romanian knight of the Sacred Order of the Dragon, known as Dracula. On the eve of the battle, his bride Elisabeta whom he prized above all things on earth, knew that he must face an insurmountable force from which he might never return. PORTALS CLASH SOLDIERS: Dracul! Dracul! Dracul! Dracul! SWORD CLASHES, MAN SCREAMS HORSE NEIGHS (Turk groans) Elisabeta. (Gasps) (Horse neighs) The vengeful Turks shot an arrow into the castle, carrying false news of Dracula's death. Elisabeta, believing him dead, flung herself into the river. CHOIR SINGS ORTHODOX LITURGY (Groans and pants) (Elisabeta speaks Romanian) "My Prince is dead." "All is lost without him. "May God unite us in heaven." EERIE MUSIC PLAYS (Sobs) (Cries agonisingly) (Priest calls out) (Spits out words) (Roars) CHOIR CHANTS RELENTLESSLY (Howls) BIG BEN CHIMES I've done everything that you asked, master. All the preparations are in order - everything! I await your commands. For I know that... that when the rewards are given... (Insect buzzes) ..I will be one of those who benefits from your generosity. (Insect buzzes loudly) Mmm. Thank you. MAN: Gone mad. Renfield is deranged. He's lost his greedy mind, poor chap. I want you to take over for this foreign client, this rather eccentric Count Dracula. He's buying up property around London. Of course, sir. I'll attend to the Count. Thank you for your confidence. This is a great opportunity for you, Harker. But you'll have to leave for Transylvania immediately. Opportunities such as this come but once in a lifetime. Yes, of course, sir. If I may inquire, what, in fact, happened to Mr Renfield in Transylvania? Nothing. Nothing! Personal problems. Close these transactions, and your future with this firm is assured. Yes, sir. I will give it my full attention. (Sighs) We've waited this long, haven't we? We can be married when I return. (Clears throat) Of course. I'll write. Jonathan! (Whispers) Jonathan. GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS, PEACOCKS CALL Jonathan, I love you. I love you, Mina. (Sighs) (Moans) TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS IN DISTANCE TRAIN WHISTLE GETS LOUDER JONATHAN'S DIARY: "May 25, Budapest. "Left Budapest early this morning. "The impression I had was that we were leaving the West "and entering the East. "The district I am to enter is in the extreme east of the country, "just on the borders of three states, "Transylvania, Moldavia and Bucovina, "in the midst of the Carpathian mountains, "one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe." WOLF HOWLS DRACULA: "My friend, welcome to the Carpathians. "I am anxiously expecting you. "At the Borgo Pass, "my carriage will await you and bring you to me. "I trust your journey from London has been a happy one "and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. "Your friend, D." (Mina reads) "Diary, May 25. "My dear Jonathan has been gone almost a week. "And although I was disappointed we could not marry before his departure, "I'm happy that he got sent on this important assignment. "I'm longing to hear all the news. "It must be so nice to see strange countries. "I wonder if we - I mean, Jonathan and I - "shall ever see them together." THUNDER CRACKS WIND HOWLS (Coachman shouts) JONATHAN: We're early, driver. No-one is here. (Coachman urges horses on) THUNDER RUMBLES (Wolf snarls loudly) WOLVES HOWL (Coachman breathes heavily) (Cracks whip) (Horses neigh) (Wolves snarl) I say, is the castle far? GATES CREAK LOUDLY BIRDS SCREECH EERIE MUSIC PLAYS GATES CREAK Welcome to my home. Enter freely of your own will and leave some of the happiness you bring. Count Dracula? I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in. You will, I trust, excuse me, that I do not join you? But I have already dined. And I never drink... ..wine. An ancestor? I see a resemblance. The Order of the Dracul. The Dragon. An ancient society... ..pledging my forefathers... ..to defend the church against all enemies of Christ. That relationship was not entirely... ..successful. Oh, yes. (Laughs) (Snarls and roars) It is no laughing matter! We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as the killer whose blood flows in these veins? Blood... ..is too precious a thing in these times. The warlike days are over. The victories of my great race... ..are but a tale to be told. (Throws sword) I am the last of my kind. I have offended you with my ignorance, Count. Forgive me. BATS SQUEAK WOMAN MOANS (Dracula breathes heavily) I do so long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London. To be in the midst of the whirl and the rush of humanity. To share its life... its changes...its death. There! You, Count, are... ..are the owner of Carfax Abbey, Purfleet. Congratulations. Your firm writes most highly of your talents. They say you are a man of good... ..taste. And that you are a worthy substitute to your predecessor, Mr Renfield. You may rely on me, Count. Forgive my curiosity. But why 10 houses in such precise locations around London? Is it to raise the market value? Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds... ..true love. You've found Mina. I thought she was lost. We're to be married as soon as I return. Are you married, Count? Sir, are you married? I... I was married once. Ages ago, it seems. She died. Oh. I'm very sorry. She was fortunate. My life, at its best, is misery. She will, no doubt, make a devoted wife. And you, a faithful husband, hmm? Come. Write now, my friend, to your firm and to any loved ones. And say that it should please you to stay with me until a month from now. A month? Do you wish me to stay so long? I will take no refusal. a MINA: "Diary. May 30, 1897. "I know that Jonathan does not want me to stay here with Lucy while he is away. "He thinks if I become accustomed "to the Westenra family's wealth and privileges "I won't be content as a mere clerk's wife. "But Lucy and I have been friends since we were children. "She has never minded that I'm only a school mistress." Ugh, disgustingly awful! DOOR OPENS WOMAN: Mina! (Continues typing) Mina! Oh, Mina, you're always working. Is your ambitious Jon Harker forcing you to learn that ridiculous machine? When he could be forcing you to perform unspeakable acts of desperate passion on the parlour floor. Lucy, really! You shouldn't talk about my fiance in such a way. There's more to marriage than carnal pleasures. Oh, Mina! So I see. Much, much more. (Exclaims) Oh! Oh, that's... (Sighs) What? What is it, Lucy? Oh, Mina. Because I don't understand it. Can man and woman really do... ..that? I did, only last night. Fibber! You did not. Yes, I did! Oh! Well, in my dreams. Jonathan measures up, doesn't he? You can tell Lucy. We've kissed. That's all. He thinks he's too poor to marry me. It's all the worse that I'm visiting you here at Hillingham. My rich friend. Yes. But not even one marriage proposal. And here I am, almost 20. Practically a hag! BUTLER: Mr Quincey P. Morris. LUCY: Ooh, look. What is that? A Texan. Quincey P. Morris. He's so young and fresh. Like a wild stallion between my legs. You're positively indecent! I just know what men desire. Watch! Oh, Lucy. Quincey, darling! Miss Lucy. Why, you're as fresh as the spring rain! Oh, thank you. Oh, Quincey. Please, let me touch it? (Sighs) It's so big. Little girl. Oh, my dear sweet little girl! I hold your hand. And you've kissed me. Jack! Oceans of love... Oh, Jack, darling. Oh, poor little baby! Oh, my kitten, come over here. Come here, I'll kiss it better. My poor little blossom! My poor little doctor. Hello, Quincey. Jack. What a naughty bear. Let me feel... Arthur Holmwood, Esquire. Arthur! Oh, my darling. (Kisses him) Ooh, you look wonderful. I'm so sorry about your hat. Mmm. Like my dress? Absolutely charming. It's my snake dress. Is it really? MINA'S DIARY: "Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl. "But I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. "Jonathan says it is a defect of the aristocracy that they say what they please. "The truth is I admire Lucy. "I'm not surprised that men flock around her. "I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she." WIND HOWLS, DISTANT SNARLING (Dracula speaks in Romanian) SEWARD: What manner of man is this? R.M. Renfield, successful solicitor in the firm of Hawkins and Tomkins, respected member of the Lord Nugent's Wyndham Club, returns from business abroad in Transylvania, promptly suffers a complete mental breakdown. He's now obsessed with some blood lust. PEOPLE SCREAM George! Wait here. Would you care for an hors d'oeuvre, Dr Seward? Or a canape? No, thank you, Mr Renfield. How are you feeling tonight? Far better than you, my lovesick doctor. Is my personal life of interest to you? Of course it is. All life interests me. Your diet, Mr Renfield, is disgusting! Actually, they're perfectly nutritious. You see, each life that I ingest gives back life to me. A fly gives you life? Certainly. You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with chopsticks than to interest me in the lesser carnivora. I'll have to invent a new classification of lunatic for you. What about spiders? Spiders eat the flies. Yes, spiders eat them. What about sparrows? Oh, yes. Did you say sparrows? Something larger perhaps? Oh, yes. A kitten! I beg you. A little, sleek... A playful kitten. Something I can teach. Something I can feed! No-one would refuse me a kitten. Wouldn't you prefer a cat? (Exclaims) Oh, yes! Yes. A big cat! Yes. My salvation depends upon it! Your salvation? Yes, sir! I need lives. I need lives for the master! Master? What master? The master will come. And he has promised to make me immortal. How? (Sighs) (Snarls) (Screams) Get off! (Screams repeatedly) The blood is the life! The blood is the life! THUNDER RUMBLES JONATHAN: "May 30, Castle Dracula. "I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. "The Count - "the way he looked at Mina's picture fills me with dread. "As if I am a player in a story that's unknown to me." WIND HOWLS FAINTLY SOUND OF DISTANT DRIPPING I didn't hear you come in. Take care how you cut yourself! It is more dangerous than you think. (Exclaims) (Breathes heavily) Oh. A foul bauble to men's vanity. Perhaps you should grow a beard. The letters I requested. Have you written them? SOMETHING HOWLS IN THE DISTANCE Good. (Breathes heavily) Should you leave these rooms, you will not, by any chance, go to sleep in any other part of the castle? It is old. And has many bad memories. (Breathes heavily) Be warned. I'm sure I understand. (Gasps) (Roars) Do not put your faith in such... ..trinkets of deceit. (Breathes heavily) We are in Transylvania. And Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways. And to you... BATS SQUEAK ..there shall be many strange things. I've seen many strange things already. Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno. WOLVES HOWL Ah, listen to them! The children of the night! What sweet music they make. Music? Those animals? (Growls) Ah, it might look like a beauty, but it's a no from John West. (SQUEAKS DISAPPOINTEDLY) It's what John West rejects that makes John West the best. (WONDROUS STRING MUSIC) Wild caught and high in omega-3. Domino's is now extra great value, because now you can upgrade to an extra large and get 50% more pizza for just $3 more! Try it on our Cheaper Everyday $5 Value Range and make your money go further at Domino's. MAN: Look around. As the Favourites come out, it begins. Working as the Dream team. Nice! Ah. The flirt. Classic! Cadbury Favourites. * JONATHAN'S DIARY: "I did as Dracula instructed. "I wrote three letters - to the firm, to my family and to my beloved Mina. "I said nothing of my fears as he will read them, no doubt." DOOR SHUTS "I know now that I am a prisoner." (Woman imitates Mina) Jonathan! Jonathan, come to me. Come! Mmm. Lay down. Lay back into my arms. Lay back, Jonathan. (Moans) (Purrs) Ah. (Growls) Oh! (Growls) (Screams) Ah! (Curses in Romanian) Ah! (Women moan) (Baby cries) (Shrieks) (Baby screams) Ah... (Screams wildly) JONATHAN: "Dearest Mina, "All is well here. "The Count has insisted I remain for a month "to tutor him in English custom. "I can say no more, except I love you. "Ever faithful, Jonathan." THUNDER CRACKS JONATHAN'S DIARY: "The letters I have written have undoubtedly sealed my doom." (Man calls from behind door) "The Count's gypsies, "fearless warriors who are loyal to the death to whatever nobleman they serve." "Day and night they toil, "filling boxes with decrepit earth from the bowels of the castle." "They are to be delivered "to his newly-acquired Carfax Abbey in London." "Why do they fill these boxes with earth?" SCRAPING SOUND SCREAMING I love him! I love him! Oh, Mina! It's so wonderful! I've decided. I love him and I've said yes! Finally! Don't tell me - the Texan with the big nose! Oh, no. To my dear number three. Lord Arthur Holmwood. Lord and Lady Holmwood. Would you be my maid of honour? Oh, say yes. Mina, what is it? It's the most exciting day of my life. You don't seem to care. It's just that I'm so terribly worried about Jonathan. This letter I received is... It's so cold, it's so unnatural. It's not like him at all. Oh, Mina, don't worry. THUNDER RUMBLES (Both gasp) THUNDER ROARS MAN: "Captain's Log - the Demeter. June 27, 1897. "We picked up 50 boxes of experimental earth "bound for London, England. "Set sail at noon into a storm that seemed to come out of nowhere "carrying us out to sea." (Laughs) MENACING ROAR (They laugh innocently) (Dracula laughs malevolently) WOLF GROWLS ANIMALS SCREECH "July 3. Second mate has gone missing. "Nearing Gibraltar. "Storm continues. "Crew uneasy. "Believe someone or something is aboard the ship with us." (Growls) BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM (Growls) Master, I am here! The master of all life in his hands! Gather around! I'm here to do your bidding, master! I have worshipped you long in sorrow, master! (Men scream) I am your slave! I await your command! The case of Renfield grows more interesting. Yet there is method in his madness, with his flies and spiders. Had I the secret of even one such brilliant mind, the key to the fancy of one lunatic... Master, since you love me, answer me! THUNDER ROARS Lucy. Lucy. DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS WOLF SNARLS HORSE NEIGHS WILDLY LOW GROWLING (Roars) Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! CHOIR CHANTS MENACINGLY Lucy! WOLF HOWLS Lucy! Lucy! (Moans) (Moans) (Wolf growls) Ah! (Growls) (Growls) No! Do not see me. Lucy! Lucy! I couldn't control myself. Hush, Lucy, you were dreaming. You were walking in your sleep again. My soul - it wanted to leave my body. There was this agonising feeling, and... ..and I came back and saw you shaking me. It's alright, Lucy, you were dreaming. I had to, it sort of pulled me and lured me and...I had no control. It's alright. Let's get you warm. It had red eyes. I still have the taste of his blood on my mouth. (Growls) a MAN: Right, here we go. Swing it round here. RENFIELD: Master! I am here to do your bidding! Master! I am here. I have worshipped you. VAN HELSING: Contrary to some beliefs, the vampire, like any night creature, can move about by day though it is not his natural time and his powers are weak. PROJECTOR WHIRRS MAN: See the amazing cinematograph! A wonder of modern civilisation! The latest sensation! The greatest contraption of the century! A new wonder of the world! See the amazing cinematograph! ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS See me. See me now. BOY: Storm strikes England! Escaped wolf from zoo still at large! Buy a paper, sir? Thank you, sir. Get your 'Gazette'! Penny a paper. Oh! My humblest apologies. Forgive my ignorance. I am recently arrived from abroad and I do not know your city. As a beautiful lady... You may purchase a street atlas for sixpence. Good day. I have offended you. I am only looking for the cinematograph. I understand it is a wonder of the civilised world. If you seek culture then visit a museum. London is filled with them. If you'll excuse me? A woman so lovely and intelligent should not be walking the streets of London without her gentleman. Do I know you, sir? Are you acquainted with my husband? Shall I call the police? Husband. I shall bother you no more. Sir. It is I who have been rude. If you're looking... Please. Permit me to introduce myself. I am Prince Vlad of Segrecht. A prince, no less. I am your servant. Wilhelmina Murray. I am honoured, Madam Mina. This way. Hello, sir. Thank you. Mr Holmwood asked me to stop by to see Miss Lucy. Yes, sir. Dr Seward, Miss Lucy. Thank you. Oh, Jack! Brilliant Jack! Do you like it? Did Arthur put you up to this? Or did you want me alone just once before I'm married? (Laughs) Lucy, you're embarrassing me. I'm here as your doctor. Your fiance is very worried about you and I assure you a doctor's confidence is sacred. I must have your complete trust. Help me, Jack. I don't know what's happening to me. I'm changing. I can feel it. I can hear everything. I hear the servants at the other end of the house whispering. I hear mice in the attic stomping like elephants. But I'm having horrible nightmares, Jack. The eyes. Oh, Jack! (Sobs) I'm here, Lucy. Nothing will harm you. Ow! Ow. Let it work. Thank you. Lucy. Oh, Jack. Kiss me. (Men shouting outside) Miss Lucy's hotter than a buck-naked June bride riding bareback in the middle of... I'd watch my colonial tongue if I were you. (Laughs) Hello, Jack. And how's our lovely patient today? Well, frankly, Arthur, I'm confounded. Jack, are you still brooding over Miss Lucy? I can only conclude it must be something mental. How very droll. Do you hear that, Quince? Last week he wanted to marry her and now he wants to have her committed. Let's have a look at her. (Wheezes) I'm at a loss, I admit. I've taken the liberty of cabling Abraham Van Helsing, the metaphysician philosopher. Sounds like a goddamn witchdoctor to me, Jack. Van Helsing knows more about obscure diseases than anyone in the world. He's my teacher and mentor. (Lucy wheezes) Do it, man. Bring him here. Spare no expense. DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS (Wolf growls) LAUGHTER APPLAUSE Astounding! There are no limits to science. How can you call this science? Do you think Madame Curie would invite such comparisons? Really! I...I...shouldn't have come here. I must go. Do not fear me. DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS (Faintly) No! Ah! Stop this! Stop this! Stop this. (Speaks Romanian) My God, who are you? I know you. I have crossed oceans of time to find you. DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS MUSIC BUILDS TO A CLIMAX (Growls) (Woman screams) (People scream) MAN: Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen! Please, there is no need for panic. The animal handlers have the situation completely under control. (Speaks Romanian) Come here, Mina. He likes you. There is much to be learned from beasts. The tropical pampas vampire bat must consume 10 times its own weight in fresh blood each day. Or its own blood cells will die. (Squeaks) (Laughs) (Gasps) Cute little vermin, ja? LAUGHTER Blood and the diseases of the blood, such as syphilis, that concern us here. The very name "venereal diseases" - the diseases of Venus - imputes to them divine origin. And they are involved in that sex problem about which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilisation are concerned. In fact, civilisation and 'syphilisation' have advanced together. LAUGHTER What is this? It's from the telegraph, Professor. Telegraph? Hmm. Thank you. Gentlemen, thank you, that will be all. Renovating? Been up since 5am. Why not have someone do the hard work for you? Borrow $20,000 or more with a new Gem personal loan at a fixed rate of 12.99% per annum. We could do with a bit of a sleep-in. Let's be honest, we can all tell. You can do better with Gem, powered by Latitude. Apply today. MAN: Look around. As the Favourites come out, it begins. Observing with an eagle eye. Mastering the art of stashing. Oh, brilliant move, Gran! Cadbury Favourites. VOICEOVER: Domino's is the official pizza of summer, and now with our new Garlic Bread Crust, it's even tastier. Oozing with garlic and herb butter, it's delicious to the last bite. Add it for just $3.99 extra at Domino's. a DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS JONATHAN'S DIARY: "Dawn. "These may be the last words I write in this journal. "Dracula has left me with these women, these devils of the pit. "They drain my blood to keep me weak, barely alive so I cannot escape. "I will try one last time today to escape through the water. "There must be a passageway to the river. "And then away from this cursed land "where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet." DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS PROFESSOR VAN HELSING: "For the record, "I do attest that at this point I, Abraham Van Helsing, "became personally involved in these strange events." WOLF PANTS AND SNARLS WOLF HOWLS (Moans) Professor Van Helsing! How good of you to come. I always come to friends in need when they call me. Jack, tell me everything about your case. She has all physical anaemic signs. Ja? Her blood analyses normal and yet it is not. She manifests continued blood loss. I cannot trace the cause. Blood loss? How? I... (Lucy screams) (Lucy mutters and screams) (Moans) My God! Close the doors. (Lucy gasps and groans) WIND HOWLS Hey-up! My God! She's only a child. Ja! My God. No time to lose. There must be a transfusion at once. Take off your coat. You remember how to tie a tourniquet, don't you? Have you perfected a procedure? Perfected? No, I've only experimented. Landsteiner's method. Animals - goats, sheeps. If haemolysis occurs in the blood the red blood cells will explode. She will die. Here, take this tube. What is going on up here! This is Professor Van Helsing. What is he doing? Trying to save her life. Good God! You're the fiance? Please. Please. Take off your coat. She's very ill. She wants blood. Blood she must have. Take off your coat. Roll up your sleeve, Arthur. (Gasps) Oh, God. Quickly, quickly, quickly. Roll it up! This may hurt a little, Art. Ow! (Lucy whimpers) (Lucy sighs and gasps) Forgive me, sir. My life is hers. I would give my last drop of blood. Your last drop? Thank you. You're very welcome here. I do not ask as much as that. Not yet. Hold her hand. (Groans deeply) ARTHUR: That poor creature has had the blood of two men already. QUINCEY: Her whole body couldn't hold that much blood! What took it out? Good question, Mr Morris. Those marks in her throat - no disease, no tracheoration. I'm sure the blood loss occurred there. Oh? Where did the blood go? You were once a careful student, Jack. Use your brain. Where did the blood go? Tell me. The bedclothes would be covered. Exactly. Don't let your eyes see nor your ears hear that which you cannot account for. Something went up, sucked it out of her and flew away? (Others laugh) Ja, why not? That's brilliant. That's absolutely brilliant. Will one of you learned doctors tell me what's wrong with Lucy? Jack, you are a scientist. Don't you think there are things in this universe which you cannot understand and which are true? Mesmerism, hypnotism... You and Charcot proved hypnotism! ..materialisation, astral bodies... Professor? Where the hell did he go? MATCH STRIKES You see? I feel like a blundering novice. Gentlemen, we're not fighting some disease here. Those marks on Lucy's neck were made by something unspeakable out there. Dead but not dead. It stalks us for some dread purpose I do not yet comprehend. To live, it feeds on Lucy's precious blood. It is a beast, a monster. (Groans) MINA'S DIARY: "What is happening to Lucy and to me? "When I was younger, my feelings were never troubled. "I wish I were myself again, "the sensible Mina I always depended on." DRACULA: Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the soul. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe...wants your soul. But you are safe with me. DREAM-LIKE MUSIC PLAYS Tell me, Prince, tell me of your home. The most beautiful place in all creation. Yes, it must be. A land beyond a great vast forest. Surrounded by majestic mountains. Lush vineyards. And flowers of such frailty and beauty as to be found nowhere else. You describe my home as if you had seen it first-hand. It's your voice, perhaps. It's so familiar. It's like a... It's like a voice in a dream I cannot place. ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS And it comforts me... When you are alone. ..when I am alone. (Gasps) And what of the Princess? (Sighs) The Princess? There is always a princess. With gowns flowing white. Her face... Her face... ..is a river. (Cries) The Princess, she's a river filled with tears of sadness... ..and heartbreak. Yes, there was a princess. Elisabeta. She was the most radiant woman in all the empires of the world. Man's deceit took her from her ancient prince. She leapt to her death into the river that you spoke of. In my mother's tongue, it is called... (Speaks Romanian) The River of the Princess. INTENSELY ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS (Mina gasps) Ah, it might look like a beauty, but it's a no from John West. (SQUEAKS DISAPPOINTEDLY) It's what John West rejects that makes John West the best. (WONDROUS STRING MUSIC) Wild caught and high in omega-3. * THUNDER RUMBLES (Gasps) (Yells) (Cries out) GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS THUNDER CRASHES SISTER AGATHA: "Dear Madam, "Your fiance is safe "and in the care of the good Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. "Mr Harker believes your life is in extreme danger "and he desires with all urgency that you join him here "so that you may immediately be married. "Yours with all blessings, Sister Agatha." The sweet Prince! Jonathan must never know of us. Lucy! Lucy! Abraham Van Helsing. Dr Van Helsing! You are Madam Mina, dear friend to our Lucy, ja? How is she, Doctor? She's still very weak. She tells me of your beloved Jonathan Harker and your worry for him. Well, I too worry for all young lovers. (Hums a waltz) (Gasps) There are darknesses in life, my child, and there are lights. You're one of the lights, dear Mina. The light of all light. Go now, see your friend. SOFT MUSIC PLAYS Mina. You look different, Mina. You look positively radiant. You heard from Jonathan, didn't you? Yes! Yes. He's safe, Lucy. He's in a convent in Romania. He's suffering from a violent brain fever. The good sisters caring for him, they wrote to me and they say he needs me. But...I won't go. I'm not going to leave you. Mina. You've got to go to him. You've got to love him and marry him right then and there. I want you to take this, my sister. No. It's my wedding gift to you. No, Lucy, no! Don't worry about spoilt little Lucy. I'll be alright. Tell Jonathan, oceans of love. (Lucy moans) Jack! Quincey, how is she? (Moans) (Gasps and hisses) I cannot breathe! Lucy! LUCY! It's medicinal. Go to sleep, Lucy. You're having bad dreams. It's garlic! Who's given me garlic? Lucy! Lucy! Quincey's here! Quincey's here to see you. Get some brandy. Oh, Quincey! Now, Miss Lucy. Miss Lucy, you just rest easy. Arthur sent me to take care of you. He said if you don't get better quick, I have to put you down. Oh, Quincey! You're such a beast. Will you kiss me, Quincey? Kiss me. (Hisses) You old coot! Away! Get off me! It's alright, dear. Lucy, listen to me. Sleep, Lucy, sleep now. Sleep! (Pants and moans) What's this? She has these teeth. Now, look! There...there. Ja! Nosferatu. We used to watch TV like this, but now we watch it like this, this and this. But when it comes to our favourite stuff, like sports, nothing beats going big like this. Yup, this year even more of your favourite sports are going online. But if you're not ready, you might be watching it... like this. So go to... and see if you can connect your TV to fibre. Then you'll be enjoying every game in HD goodness, like this. a (Reads) "Here occurs the shocking and frightening history "of the wild, berserk Prince Dracula, "how he impaled people, roasted them, boiled their heads in a kettle, "how he skinned them alive and...hacked them to pieces... "..and then drank their blood." Ja. Dracul. "The blood is the life." MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS MINA: "My dearest Prince, forgive me. "I have received word from my fiance in Romania. "I am en route to join him. We are to be married." (Cries) "I will never see you again." "Mina." MINA'S DIARY: "It's odd, "but I feel almost that my strange friend is with me. "He speaks to me in my thoughts. "With him, I felt more alive than ever I had. "And now without him, soon to be a bride, I feel confused and lost. "Perhaps, though I try to be good, I am bad. "Perhaps I am a bad, inconstant woman." (Snarls) Winds! WINDS! WINDS!!! This is the cause. This is the cause, my soul! It is Dracula, the undead! The foe I have pursued all my life. Dracula! (Laughs) Jack, hurry! I've much to tell you. Guard her well, Mr Morris. Do not fail here tonight. We are dealing with forces beyond all human experience and enormous power, so guard her well, otherwise your precious Lucy becomes a bitch of the Devil! Yee-hee! A whore of darkness. Well, you're a sick old buzzard! Hear me out, young man. Lucy isn't a random victim attacked by mere accident, do you understand? She is a willing recruit, a breathless follower, a wanton follower - I dare say, a devoted disciple. She is the Devil's concubine! You understand me? Yet...we may still save her precious soul. But...not on an empty stomach. Jack? Here, sir. Ah, now! I starve. Feed me. (Cackles) Old coot! Giddup! OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS GROWLING (Screams) LANTERN SMASHES MUSIC SWELLS WOLF HOWLS WOLF HOWLS (Deacon intones Orthodox wedding service) VICIOUS SNARLING GUNSHOT (Roars wildly) (Squeals and gasps) (Deacon continues service) Your impotent men with their foolish spells cannot protect you from my power. (Deacon continues service) CHOIR CHANTS I condemn you to living death, to eternal hunger for living...blood. (Roars) (Choir chants) # Dies irae, dies illa... # (Screams) (Screams) VAN HELSING: Jack! Ja, I know how deeply you loved her. That is why you must believe me. Believe? How can I? I want you to bring me a set of post-mortem knives. An autopsy? On Lucy? Not exactly. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart. Jack. MINA: "Diary, September 17. "Poor Jonathan, still so ill, "is cheered by the familiar streets of London. "For me, now that Lucy is dead, it is a sad homecoming. "It is as if a part of me is dead too, "except for the tiny hope that I will again see my Prince. "Is he here? "Now that I am married, "I begin to understand my feelings for my strange friend "who is always in my thoughts." (Dracula growls) MINA: Jonathan, what is it? It is the man himself! Look! He's grown young! SOFT MUSIC PLAYS BATS SQUEAK Gentlemen, must we desecrate poor Lucy's grave? She died horribly enough. If Lucy's dead, no wrong can be done to her. But if she's not dead, well... Are you saying she's been buried alive? No. All I say is she is undead. Undead. Ah, this is insane. (Pulls out pin) (Coughs) Gentlemen, shall we? One, two, three! EERIE CACKLING Where is she? Where is she?! What have you done with her?! She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. She's vampyr, nosferatu. These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but instead grow strong and become immortal once infected by another nosferatu. So, my friends, we fight not one beast, but legions that go on age after age after age, feeding on the blood of the living. (Child cries) Quickly, hide! Hide, now! SPECTRAL MUSIC PLAYS (Cries) EERIE WIND WAILS Lucy! Lucy! (Child cries) Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you, my darling. Kiss me and caress me. My darling husband, please. (Screams) We are strong in the Lord and the power of his might. We are strong in the Lord and the power of his might. (Screams eerily) The power of God is upon us. We are strong in the Lord and the power of his might. We are strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Ex ombris in lucia. I bring you from shadow into light. (Makes demonic sounds) I cast you out, the Prince of Darkness, into Hell. A moment's courage and it's done. Take this into your left hand. Place the point over the heart. Then in God's name strike! Do it now! (Screams) (Growls) VOICEOVER: Get free SKY Sport for a year with Vodafone TV and catch all the big hits... (TYRES SQUEAL) ..misses... (WHISTLE) ..meltdowns, slam dunks... (CHEERING) (YELLS) ..howzats and bunker action live. Simply sign up to Vodafone TV Starter with SKY Sport on an eligible home broadband plan and dive into a feeding frenzy of free sport for a whole year. Only with Vodafone TV, bringing you more of the content you love. Visit vodafone.co.nz to sign up. * Eat! Feast! You will need your strength for the dark days ahead. Mina. Doctor. Ja. How did Lucy die? Well... Was she in great pain? Ja, then we cut off her head, drove a stake through her heart, burnt it and she found peace. Doctor! Please. (Children giggle) So, Mr Harker. I must now ask you as your doctor... ..a sensitive question. During your infidelity with those creatures, those demonic women, did you for one instant taste of their blood? No. No? No. Good! Then you have not infected your blood with the terrible disease that destroyed poor Lucy. Doctor, you must understand. I doubted everything. Even my mind. I was impotent with fear. I know. But I know where the bastard sleeps. I brought him there. To Carfax Abbey. Vampires do exist. This one we fight, this one we face, has the strength of 20 or more people. And you can testify for that, Mr Harker. But he can also control the meaner things of life - the bat, the rodent, the wolf. He can appear as mist, as vapour, as fog, and vanish at will. Now, all these things Dracula can do, but he is not free. He must rest in his homeland's sacred earth to gain his evil power where we must destroy him utterly. Jack. I almost feel pity for anything so hunted. How can you pity such a creature? (Renfield cries out) I'll take Mina to my quarters. You'll be safer there. Mr Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must be beheaded. Use your big bowie knife. I wasn't planning on getting that close, doc. (Laughs loudly) Master! MASTER! Master! Master! Master! Dr Jack! I've been promised eternal life. (Cries) Dr Seward, who is that man? Mr Renfield. This is no place for you, Madam Mina. Renfield. I must see him. Mr Renfield, behave yourself. This is Mrs Harker. Good evening. Good evening, Mr Renfield. It seems I've been rather naughty. I know you. You're the bride my master covets. I have a husband. I am Mrs Harker. My master tells me about you. What does he tell you? That he is coming. That he is coming for you. Oh, please! Don't stay here. Get away from this man. Please! I pray to God I may never see your sweet face again. And may the Lord bless and keep you. Master! MASTER! You promised ME eternal life. But you give it to the pretty woman! Dr Jack! I'm no lunatic man. I'm a sane man fighting for his soul. My quarters are spare but you'll find them comfortable. (Renfield screams) Dr Jack! Water and toiletries at your disposal. You'll be completely safe here. (Renfield screams and wails) I'm not a lunatic! I'm a sane man! SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS (Dogs whimper) VAN HELSING: Destroy every box. Sterilise the earth inside. Leave him no refuge. Let the exorcism begin. Yahh! EERIE WHISTLING WIND HOWLS SQUEAKING BAT NOISES Renfield! You have betrayed me. No! No, master. No, I... I serve you. (Recites Latin) (Sighs and moans) Oh, yes, my love. You've found me! My most precious life. I've wanted this to happen. I know that now. I want to be with you always. You cannot know what you are saying. Yes. I do know. (Moans) I feared I would never feel your touch again. I thought you were dead. (Pants) There is no life in this body. But you live. You live! What are you? I must know. You must tell me. I am... ..nothing. Lifeless. Soulless. What do you mean? Hated and feared. I am dead to all the world. Hear me! I am the monster that living men would kill. I am Dracula. No! You murdered Lucy. I love you. Oh, God forgive me, I do. (Recites Latin) I want to be what you are, see what you see, love what you love. Mina. To walk with me you must die to your present life and be reborn to mine. You are my love... ..and my life always. Then I give you life eternal. Everlasting love. The power of the storm and the beasts of the earth. Walk with me... ..to be my loving wife. For ever. I will, yes. Yes! FANGS PIERCE FLESH (Screams) (Wails) Mina! Drink! And join me... ..in eternal life. No! I cannot let this be. Please, I don't care. Make me yours. You'll be cursed as I am to walk in the shadow of death for all eternity. I love you too much... ..to condemn you. Take me away from all this death. (Gasps) Mina! (Gasps) (Dracula groans and snorts) (Recites Latin) You think you can destroy me with your idols. ..the sacred blood of Christ! I, who served the Cross. I, who commanded knights hundreds of years before you were born. Your armies were defeated. You tortured and impaled thousands of people. I was betrayed. Look what your God has done to me. Your war with God is over. You must pay for your crimes. (Hisses and groans) Christ compels you. She is now MY bride. No! No! (Hisses) Light! More light. (Gasps) (Cries) I'm unclean. I'm unclean. (Cries) Get them. * VAN HELSING: We have learned something much. Dracula fears us. He fears time. For if not, why does he hurry so? MINA: He is gone. How do you know? He speaks to me. He has a strong mind connection to you. His heart was strong enough to survive the grave. You admire him. Ja. He was in life a most remarkable man. And his mind was great and powerful. But greater is the necessity to stamp him out and destroy him utterly. Doctor. Ja. I know that I am becoming like him. Your salvation is his destruction. That is why I want to hypnotise you. I want you to help me find him, Mina, before it is too late. Please help me find him. Please. Look into this light. The light of all light. Into this flame. Your eyes are heavy. You want to sleep. (Sighs) Sleep now. Sleep. (Mumbles) I must go to him. He calls. What do you hear? WAVES ROAR What do you hear, child? (Sighs) What do you hear? Oh, my Prince is calling me. He is travelling across icy seas to his beloved home. There he will grow strong again. I'm coming to him to partake of his strength. (Wheezes) JONATHAN: "We left London by train "and crossed the English Channel that night in stormy seas, "no doubt from the passage of the Count's ship. "He commands the winds, but we still have the advantage. "By train, we'll reach the Romanian port at Varna in three days. "By ship, it will take him at least a week. "From Paris we travelled through the Alps to Budapest. "The Count must sail around the Rock of Gibraltar "where we have posted a lookout. "Then on to the Black Sea port at Varna "where we'll meet his ship and burn it into the sea." TRAIN WHISTLES (Moans) Home! Home. (Growls) The vampire has baptised her with his own blood. (Whimpers) And her blood is dying. There is no use. (Gasps and coughs) (Coughs) Mina. I will not let you go into the unknown alone. Oh, my poor dear Jonathan. Oh, what have I done to you? No! No, I have done this to both of us. I can hear him. He's coming closer. He's calling me to him. Mina! (Gasps) Mina! Stay with me. Please. I am so cold. SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS (Stationmaster calls out) VAN HELSING: "Noon. Holmwood received a wire from his clerk at Lloyd's. "The Count's ship sailed past us to the northern port of Galatz. "The black devil is reading Mina's mind." How can we catch him now? Varna. Galatz. It's about 200 miles. With the horses we can cut him off, reach him before he reaches the castle. I'll dispatch Van Helsing straight for Borgo Pass. If we fail in our task, you'll have to finish him. JONATHAN: "From Varna, Mina and Van Helsing took a carriage "and we continued on the train towards Galatz "where we still hoped to intercept the Count before he reaches land. "I am fearful for Mina. "She is now our decoy." DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS I know this place. The end of the world. We must go on. It's late. You must rest now. No! We must go. Mina! He needs me. We must go. DOGS BAY JONATHAN: "We are past Bistritza. "Dracula has outsmarted us again. "We learned that his gypsies "took charge of the vampire's box at Galatz "and are now on the Borgo Pass road." DOGS BAY Here, you must eat. I am not hungry. Mina. HOWLING WIND TURNS INTO HIGH-PITCHED VOICES (Groans) LURING FEMALE VOICES WHISPER (Screams) Ahhh! FEMALE VOICE SINGS EERILY (Whispers enticingly) You've been so good to me, Professor. I know that Lucy harboured secret desires for you. She told me. I too know what men desire. SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS EERIE VOICES CALL OUT (Laughs) (Gasps) Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my heart as you did poor Lucy, you murdering bastard? (Growls) (Screams) Not while I live. I've sworn to protect you. (Recites Latin) (Screams) MYSTERIOUS LAUGHTER (Whispers seductively) No! You're safe within the circle. I lost Lucy. I'll not lose you to him. You whores of Satan. (Speaks Romanian) This is holy ground. Leave this place now. (Growls fiercely) Leave! In the name of God, leave this girl! I command you in the name of Christ. HORSES NEIGH No! HORSES NEIGH FURIOUSLY No! No! God damn you! HIGH-PITCHED SCREAMS DOOR CREAKS (Vampires scream) (Gasps) Ahh! Dracul! Dracul! VOICE ECHOES MENACING GROWLING Ohhh... Mina! You are NEAR! My love. HORSE NEIGHS HORSE NEIGHS They're racing against the sunset. Maybe too late, God help us. GUNSHOTS MENACING GROWLING GUNSHOTS Ahhh! (Driver urges horses on) MINA! Harker, shoot! CONTINUOUS GUNFIRE (Screams) (Man calls out) Charge! HEAVY BREATHING (Calls out in Romanian) WIND HOWLS (Growls) (Calls out) WIND HOWLS LIGHTNING STRIKES Oh! Harker! (Speaks in Romanian) (Growls) (Groans) (Groans) Harker! Ah! (Screams) Yah! Hah! Yah! (Groans) Ah! (Groans) (Grunts) Yaaah! (Grunts) Hey! No! (Growls) Mina! (Hisses) BIRDS SCREECH, WOMEN SCREAM Quincey! (Gasps) NO! (Growls) No. (Groans) When my time comes will you do the same to me? Will you? (Dracula chokes) No. VAN HELSING: No! No! No, wait. No! Let them go! Let them go. Our work is finished here. Hers is just begun. (Growls) (Gasps painfully) (Quincey gasps) Quincey. (Sobs) We've all become God's madmen. All of us. (Sobs) Where's my God? He has forsaken me. (Sobs) It is finished. No! Oh, my love. My love. MINA: "There in the presence of God "I understood at last how my love could release us all "from the powers of darkness." "Our love is stronger than death." Give me peace. 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