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The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a 1973 British horror film directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It is the eighth film in Hammer's Dracula series, and the seventh and final one to feature Christopher Lee as Dracula. The film was also the third to unite Peter Cushing as Van Helsing with Lee, following Dracula (1958) and Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972). It was later released in the United States in 1978, retitled Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride.
Plot: A British-made chiller about a blood-thirsty count who takes up residence in modern London to develop a new strain of bubonic plague, with the evil intention of annihilating all life on Earth. This film takes place two years after the events of the previous film. A large headquarter owned by a reclusive personality has been built upon the cemetery where Dracula died in the previous film. Van Helsing is once more approached by the Secret Service after one of their officer gets hold of information regarding elite personalities performing satanic rituals in a mansion located on the outskirts.
Credits:
Christopher Lee as Count Dracula / D.D. Denham
Peter Cushing as Lorrimer Van Helsing
Michael Coles as Inspector Murray
William Franklyn as Peter Torrence
Richard Vernon as Colonel Mathews
Joanna Lumley as Jessica Van Helsing
Valerie Van Ost as Jane
Barbara Yu Ling as Chin Yang
Freddie Jones as Dr. Julian Keeley
Maurice O'Connell as Agent Hanson
Richard Mathews as John Porter, MP
Patrick Barr as Lord Carradine
Lockwood West as General Sir Arthur Freeborne
Peter Adair as Doctor
John Harvey as Commissionaire
Maggie Fitzgerald as Vampire Girl
Pauline Peart as Vampire Girl
Finnuala O'Shannon as Vampire Girl
Mia Martin as Altar Girl
Marc Zuber as Guard
Paul Weston as Guard
Ian Dewar as Guard
Graham Rees as Guard
Plot: A British-made chiller about a blood-thirsty count who takes up residence in modern London to develop a new strain of bubonic plague, with the evil intention of annihilating all life on Earth. This film takes place two years after the events of the previous film. A large headquarter owned by a reclusive personality has been built upon the cemetery where Dracula died in the previous film. Van Helsing is once more approached by the Secret Service after one of their officer gets hold of information regarding elite personalities performing satanic rituals in a mansion located on the outskirts.
Credits:
Christopher Lee as Count Dracula / D.D. Denham
Peter Cushing as Lorrimer Van Helsing
Michael Coles as Inspector Murray
William Franklyn as Peter Torrence
Richard Vernon as Colonel Mathews
Joanna Lumley as Jessica Van Helsing
Valerie Van Ost as Jane
Barbara Yu Ling as Chin Yang
Freddie Jones as Dr. Julian Keeley
Maurice O'Connell as Agent Hanson
Richard Mathews as John Porter, MP
Patrick Barr as Lord Carradine
Lockwood West as General Sir Arthur Freeborne
Peter Adair as Doctor
John Harvey as Commissionaire
Maggie Fitzgerald as Vampire Girl
Pauline Peart as Vampire Girl
Finnuala O'Shannon as Vampire Girl
Mia Martin as Altar Girl
Marc Zuber as Guard
Paul Weston as Guard
Ian Dewar as Guard
Graham Rees as Guard
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00:02:59We dedicate ourselves to your service and your commands.
00:03:08We accept your guidance and your mighty power.
00:03:13By the nameless mountainers of the lower depths are you called.
00:08:01Each time.
00:08:02Same.
00:08:08Obscene.
00:08:12Some...
00:08:13Some power.
00:08:15something great.
00:08:23You're sure John Porter was there?
00:08:27You're sure it was John Porter?
00:08:32Sure.
00:08:34There you have filthy, obscene rights.
00:08:39A sort of altar.
00:08:41A young girl, naked.
00:08:42She lies there, waiting for the sacrifice.
00:08:47A cockerel to be killed.
00:09:12They call on the name of the devil.
00:09:28They seem to take strength from their own blasphemy.
00:09:33You want proof?
00:09:34Oh, God.
00:09:35Photos?
00:09:39Five of them.
00:09:40All involved.
00:09:42All right.
00:09:43All right.
00:09:44Now let's go through this again.
00:09:45Tell me more about this ritual.
00:09:46All right.
00:09:47All right.
00:09:48All right.
00:09:49All right.
00:09:50Now let's go through this again.
00:09:51Tell me more about this ritual.
00:09:52If you'd never have gone in, putting him in as one of the guards, they must have been picked men.
00:10:07And is bound to be caught.
00:10:08He volunteered.
00:10:09Nobody volunteers in this department.
00:10:10Does he still maintain that John Porter was there?
00:10:11Yes, he seems to be certain about that.
00:10:12Porter and four others.
00:10:13Five men in all.
00:10:14It's going to make life difficult for all of us, isn't it?
00:10:15Because he's a minister of the crown.
00:10:16Because the right honourable John Porter is direct responsibility for this department.
00:10:17Perhaps he just forgot about us.
00:10:18I'm sure he's going to have gone in.
00:10:19I'm sure he's going to have gone in.
00:10:20Putting him in as one of the guards.
00:10:21They must have been picked men.
00:10:22And is bound to be caught.
00:10:23He volunteered.
00:10:24Nobody volunteers in this department.
00:10:25Does he still maintain that John Porter was there?
00:10:26Yes, he seems to be certain about that.
00:10:27Porter and four others.
00:10:28Five men in all.
00:10:29It's going to make life difficult for all of us, isn't it?
00:10:30Because he's a minister of the crown.
00:10:31Because the right honourable John Porter is direct responsibility for this department.
00:10:44Perhaps he just forgot about us.
00:10:46In any case, we have no proof.
00:10:48No real proof.
00:10:49A group of middle aged men indulging themselves in some sort of sick orgy.
00:10:53That's what we've got.
00:10:54Maybe the proof's in there.
00:10:56Even if it is, we don't know if we can use it.
00:10:59So that poor devil is simply suffering for absolutely nothing.
00:11:02That poor devil isn't suffering any longer.
00:11:05He's dead.
00:11:14It's a miracle he lasted as long as he did.
00:11:16Obviously, he'd been systematically beaten and tortured.
00:11:19Yes, but thank you, Doctor.
00:11:20Let me have your written report later.
00:11:26I don't suppose anyone will be allowed to claim him, will they?
00:11:29Usual routine, quote, name, and the death certificate.
00:11:33Then the department will put Brown to the burial.
00:11:36Would you like to hear this played back now, sir?
00:11:48No, not now.
00:11:49But leave it here.
00:11:50Get this done at the photo lab.
00:11:51Tell them to make prints of anything that comes up.
00:11:53Anything at all.
00:11:54Have the tape transcribed later, and then put it in a red dossier
00:11:58and find it in the number two security vault under seal.
00:12:01Yes, sir.
00:12:02Number two vault, eh?
00:12:04You really are going to close the door on this whole issue.
00:12:07I might have to.
00:12:08As far as the department's concerned, as far as I'm concerned.
00:12:12Officially.
00:12:13What's that supposed to mean?
00:12:14I've called somebody in to give you a hand.
00:12:17Someone who doesn't have our resources, but does have a certain independence.
00:12:21Political independence.
00:12:22A man called Murray.
00:12:24Inspector Murray.
00:12:25Scotland Yard.
00:12:26Special branch.
00:12:28Don't worry.
00:12:29He's all right.
00:12:30It's his job.
00:12:31Oh, that's comforting.
00:12:33Inside this room you have my blessing and my cooperation.
00:12:36Outside you're on your own.
00:12:38And I mean that.
00:12:39Put a foot wrong and the powers that be will finish you.
00:12:42Could probably join Hanson.
00:12:45Thanks.
00:12:47Nothing, sirs.
00:12:48Thanks, Sirsas.
00:12:56Thanks.
00:13:00It's still there, Eve.
00:13:01We've been running some routine security checks on certain listed VIPs.
00:13:03We've been running some routine security checks on certain listed VIPs.
00:13:12We got a whisper on the grapevine that some of them may have been visiting a house in Croxtod Heath.
00:13:17Visiting it regularly. We didn't know who they were.
00:13:22This is the place.
00:13:26Pelham House. Headquarters of what has always been regarded as a harmless organization.
00:13:31Psychical examination and research group. Purge for short.
00:13:35So you sent an operative in undercover?
00:13:38Yes, Hanson. He witnessed a couple of pretty weird sessions.
00:13:47Hear ye great demons of hell.
00:13:51Watch over these thy disciples. Give them thy power over frail mankind.
00:13:58Thus, do we dedicate ourselves to your service and your commands.
00:14:04Thus, with this baptism of blood, we walk in the eternal footsteps of the cursed.
00:14:11To know the inner secrets of those who move beyond the realms of the unknown and into the precincts of Hades.
00:14:20Yesterday they rumbled him and tried to make him talk.
00:14:27So they're alerted now. What is it? An espionage network?
00:14:32That must be our assumption.
00:14:33Moscow or Peking?
00:14:34Well, we don't know. Nothing ties in. There's no single known link.
00:14:38And there's no whispers from any informers.
00:14:42From the photo lab.
00:14:43They've found five exposures on the microfilm.
00:14:46Bit blurry, but they've given them special processing.
00:14:49Right. Thanks, Jane.
00:14:50The transcription?
00:14:51All finished, sir. Sealed and vaulted.
00:14:54You can't have had much rest in the last 12 hours. You'd better cut along home.
00:14:57Thank you, sir.
00:14:58Turn off the light as you go out, will you, Jane?
00:15:06Well, no doubt about that one.
00:15:09General Sir Arthur Freeborn, Imperial General Staff.
00:15:13I'm sorry.
00:15:14I'm sorry.
00:15:15I'm sorry.
00:15:16I'm sorry.
00:15:17I'm sorry.
00:15:18I'm sorry.
00:15:19I'm sorry.
00:15:20I'm sorry.
00:15:21I'm sorry.
00:15:22I'm sorry.
00:15:23I'm sorry.
00:15:24I'm sorry.
00:15:25Thus, by the six thousand terrors of hell, are you anointed.
00:15:28Good Lord.
00:15:30Sir Hanson was right.
00:15:31That's Porter, isn't it?
00:15:36Yes.
00:15:37The Right Honorable John Porter.
00:15:38I'm sorry.
00:15:39I'm sorry.
00:15:40I'm sorry.
00:15:41Yes, the Right Honorable John Porter MP.
00:15:44Minister with special responsibilities for our security services.
00:15:49Pity he didn't stick to collecting spiders.
00:15:55Thus by the nameless monsters of the lower depths are you called.
00:16:01A nod from him and a dozen civil service pensions go out of the window, including mine.
00:16:05He could dissolve this department in two seconds flat.
00:16:08So that's why you're working without official sanction.
00:16:13He's not too difficult either. Lord Carradine.
00:16:16Next to the church and the government. One of the biggest landowners in England.
00:16:19Still owns half of London.
00:16:24By the seven lords of darkness are you damned.
00:16:33Professor Julian Keery.
00:16:36Not the Nobel Prize winner.
00:16:38Yes, I'm sure it is.
00:16:39Expert in the fields of bacteriology, germ warfare and diseases of the blood.
00:16:44Runs the Keery Foundation here in London.
00:16:46And seven times seven damned again.
00:17:02Thus to defy the common laws of man and righteousness.
00:17:08There were five photos. Peter, let's have the fifth.
00:17:16What's this then?
00:17:17He slipped up over this one.
00:17:20He spoke of five men.
00:17:22Well, he was punchy. He had a hell of a beating.
00:17:24It's a wonder we got anything at all out of him.
00:17:27It could only have been four.
00:17:28It's enough.
00:17:29I'll have the dossiers released on Keeley, Potter and the others.
00:17:35I'll, er, see what can be dug up.
00:17:47I've never seen the Colonel Novus.
00:17:48Perhaps the Colonel's never had quite so much provocation before.
00:17:57I've never seen such provocation before.
00:17:58I've never seen such provocation before.
00:18:27VAR, he would have jouiced a lot, but those were quite affinity to theurar route against the transmitter.
00:18:34Then, in Time for the
00:18:51camellons…
00:18:55Oh, my God.
00:19:25The baptism of blood, it acts on them like some kind of drug.
00:19:55The girl dies, the woman puts a cloak over her, over the blood, this blood pouring from
00:20:22the wound. There's blood, all right? There's a man I've worked with once, he's an academic
00:20:34type, but he knows about this sort of thing. Professor Lorimer Van Helsing. He's a university
00:20:41lecturer in anthropology and Eastern European history. He's a scientist, but what may prove
00:20:45to be even more important to us, he's an authority on the occult. He really knows
00:20:52about the black art, satanic rites, and... And what? Other things?
00:21:05Crosses. They have inverted crosses marked in blood. And as the woman goes to the altar,
00:21:21there's a strange power there, filling the whole house. I felt it. Strong, weird power.
00:21:34Death is no prison to those who have given their souls to the Prince of Darkness.
00:21:42The gem, the world, I can tell you in the temple. I hope you might find it. I thought
00:21:43it's gone to them. It's one of the most famous people. I think never
00:21:44that's right, but I swear this is one of the most famous people. It's two of the
00:21:45books. It's one of the most famous people. It has been a long time. It has been a long time.
00:21:49Oh, my God.
00:22:19Hobgoblins and witches and things that go. Bump in the night.
00:22:42Yes. Well, hobgoblins are fantasy creatures of the nursery, Mr. Thomas.
00:22:51As for witches, they certainly exist, although 90% of them are charlatans.
00:22:56But things do go bump in the night. Quite often.
00:23:00Oh, what do you think, Professor? Is it just a black mass ritual?
00:23:05No. No, not exactly.
00:23:09In the Dark Ages, the worship of natural substances was quite common.
00:23:14The soil, water, sands of the desert, various plants.
00:23:18But the strongest cults were those that worshipped the most mystical substance of all,
00:23:23the fountainhead of life itself.
00:23:26The glorification of blood.
00:23:29More often than not, human blood.
00:23:38Now, what your man, Hanson, witnessed was a very ancient ritual ceremony.
00:23:43It has all the elements.
00:23:44The slaughter of the cockroach,
00:23:46the inherent vileness of evil triumphant,
00:23:49the obscenities,
00:23:50the marking of the supplicants,
00:23:52the human sacrifice.
00:23:53Now, that, of course, could be faked.
00:23:55But it's the symbolism that counts.
00:23:57The worship of blood.
00:24:00Well, I can understand young kids taking a fly at it just for kicks,
00:24:02but we're talking about sophisticated, mature adults.
00:24:07It isn't unique.
00:24:09The notorious Hellfire Club of the 18th century
00:24:11was comprised solely of the elite brains of this country.
00:24:15The wisest men of Asia were firmly convinced
00:24:17that human blood was the elixir of youth.
00:24:21And those who adhere to the cult of vampirism
00:24:23are usually sophisticated, mature adults.
00:24:28These are the people who fully realize its tremendous potential.
00:24:32And one of these men could be the motivating force,
00:24:35the menace,
00:24:37and the power.
00:24:39Are these men involved in this whole business
00:24:41because they're under some kind of threat?
00:24:43Or drugs?
00:24:44Or hypnosis.
00:24:47This particular evil is more potent
00:24:49and more addictive than heroin, I assure you.
00:24:51And the end result is just as fatal.
00:24:55I'd like to see inside Perlham House.
00:24:57Yes, but they're already alerted.
00:24:59Coffee, Grandfather.
00:25:01What a pleasant surprise.
00:25:05You know my granddaughter, Inspector?
00:25:07Yes, indeed.
00:25:08Nice to see you again, Jessica.
00:25:10Hello.
00:25:10Jessica, this is Mr. Peter Torrance.
00:25:12Excuse me.
00:25:14Jessica is my right hand.
00:25:16Sometimes I think she knows more about my work than I do myself.
00:25:18There's little sense in trying to keep secrets from her.
00:25:22She has an ingrained curiosity.
00:25:24The hallmark of a true scientist.
00:25:26Do you take milk and sugar in your coffee, Mr. Torrance?
00:25:28No, plain black.
00:25:32I still think it'd be worth a trip out of the crocs of me.
00:25:35What?
00:25:35Perlham House.
00:25:37I'd still like to take a look inside.
00:25:40Ah, Professor Julian Keeley.
00:25:43You know him.
00:25:44I've met him.
00:25:45He's been here once or twice.
00:25:47But you know him, Grandfather.
00:25:49You know him very well.
00:25:53Is that true, sir?
00:25:54Yes, I know him.
00:25:56We met at Oxford.
00:25:58He was reading biochemistry.
00:25:59But when I saw that photograph, I just couldn't believe it.
00:26:05Not Keeley.
00:26:07I was going to tell you.
00:26:08Later.
00:26:10Old college chums and all that.
00:26:11I thought I might see him first.
00:26:13Speak to him.
00:26:13Find out if he's really involved.
00:26:17Why not?
00:26:18Eh?
00:26:19It's worth a try.
00:26:22Well, chances are that a friend could get more out of him than you or I.
00:26:24Yes, it's worth a try.
00:26:28Oh, my God.
00:26:58No.
00:27:00Bye.
00:27:03See you.
00:27:25Bye.
00:27:26Bye.
00:27:26Bye.
00:27:27Bye.
00:27:27Bye.
00:27:28Let's go.
00:27:58Let's go.
00:28:28Hello Julian. It's Lorimer. Lorimer. Lorimer. Lorimer van Helsing. Lorimer. You told me any time I was past. Lorimer. Van Helsing.
00:28:42It's not terribly convenient just now. What I mean is... I'm sorry. I happen to be in the neighbourhood.
00:28:49Very busy. On what?
00:28:52What are you working on these days? I must say you have some splendid equipment here.
00:28:57I'm sorry if I startled you. I was concentrating.
00:29:10Leave that will you?
00:29:17What's wrong Julian?
00:29:24Nothing. Nothing.
00:29:34And...
00:29:37Just a bit tense Lorimer.
00:29:40You know...
00:29:42You know...
00:29:43Sleepless nights.
00:29:45Mental fatigue.
00:29:48I...
00:29:52I have been ill.
00:29:54A sort of contemporary breakdown but I'll be over it soon.
00:29:58Oh my dear Jeff I'm so sorry.
00:30:00The project.
00:30:01I...
00:30:02Had a deadline you see.
00:30:06It had to be completed by the 23rd of this month.
00:30:11Always fighting the clock.
00:30:14But I did what they wanted me to and I've still time to spare.
00:30:23All the answers just came quite suddenly.
00:30:30It happens like that occasionally doesn't it?
00:30:38There is still time before the 23rd isn't there?
00:30:44What...
00:30:45No, no...
00:31:06Just a while.
00:31:09No, why not?
00:31:12Let's go.
00:31:42Let's go.
00:32:12Let's go.
00:32:42Let's go.
00:33:12Let's go.
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00:33:58Let's go.
00:34:00That's it.
00:34:03Let's go.
00:34:04Now, the horror, Lorimer, you need to feel the thrill of disgust, the beauty of obscenity.
00:34:20Julian, in God's name.
00:34:25What is it you're working on?
00:34:27Julian, help me, help me, Lorimer, Julian!
00:34:38These notes, they refer to a new strain of bacillus pestis, bubonic plague, the Black Death, not a cure for it, not a preventative technique, but a means of accelerating it.
00:34:52That is necessary. I had to do it.
00:34:57I found the new strain.
00:35:02Bacillus pestis, but more virulent than any known species.
00:35:08I grew the bacilli in agar and then exposed them to radioactive neutrons.
00:35:18Any infected creature suffers the most indescribable symptoms.
00:35:24The flesh literally rots on the bones.
00:35:29And the contagion spreads by touch like wildfire.
00:35:35Everything accelerates beyond any imagination.
00:35:39Within seconds, the disease takes over the whole system.
00:35:44And the bacilli is growing in these petri dishes?
00:35:49They are now fully matured.
00:35:52You can live in a saline solution indefinitely.
00:35:55Why the plague, Bacillus Julian?
00:35:59You, Professor Julian Keeley, awarded the Nobel Prize for Science and Humanity.
00:36:04Why, Julian?
00:36:06You are going to tell me who commissioned you to work on this, this atrocity?
00:36:11Not so important to you and to them about the 23rd of this month.
00:36:16Otherwise, I shall have no alternative but to report this whole matter to higher authorities.
00:36:20Don't blame me!
00:36:32It's not my fault!
00:36:43He threatened me.
00:36:45My work's all finished.
00:36:50I was so sorry to interrupt.
00:36:52I know him.
00:36:53He gave me the right word on his face.
00:36:56He killed me.
00:36:57He was killed.
00:36:58He must have been killed.
00:36:59There was killed.
00:37:00I was probably 11-30,000.
00:37:01He was killed.
00:37:02I was killed.
00:37:03I was killed.
00:37:04I was killed.
00:37:06I was killed.
00:37:08I was killed.
00:37:10Universe of the enfermer.
00:37:13So, I was killed.
00:37:14I was killed.
00:37:15And he died in the last half.
00:37:17Pogging me.
00:37:18Oh, dear God.
00:37:48Look, you heard what my grandfather said. I know his work. I might spot something you could overlook.
00:38:10I'm sorry, Jessica. It's just out of the question. We're not playing games.
00:38:14Actually, there is a way you can be of use to us, Jessica.
00:38:18How? By waiting here.
00:38:20And if by some chance we shouldn't be back within an hour, get on to Gadsby at the yard on 356 and tell him what happened, will you?
00:38:26And be quiet.
00:38:30Stay your name and business, please.
00:38:46Murray. Inspector Murray. Police.
00:38:50Okay.
00:39:06Let's go.
00:39:36You are the law.
00:39:57What is it?
00:40:00Police smoke.
00:40:01Police?
00:40:02What can the police possibly want with us?
00:40:04Well apparently there was some sort of disturbance in the roadway just outside your gates last night.
00:40:10Some nearby residents complained.
00:40:13There are no nearby residents.
00:40:15It was a very still night. Perhaps the sound carried.
00:40:18Didn't you hear anything?
00:40:20Yes as a matter of fact I did.
00:40:22Some hooligans on motorcycles.
00:40:24I hardly thought it worth reporting.
00:40:26Well the complainants felt that the hooligans might be using this house as a rallying point.
00:40:31It's ridiculous of course but we have to look into these things.
00:40:36How very bizarre.
00:40:37They are supposed to hide in the dark corners of Pelham House are they?
00:41:01They are supposed to work.
00:41:11It's supposed to hide in the dark corners.
00:44:18Oh, please, let's get out of here.
00:44:45Oh, please, take me away.
00:44:52Peter, please.
00:44:54Oh, don't leave me here.
00:44:57Oh, please.
00:44:59Help me.
00:45:00Help me.
00:45:01Stop him.
00:45:02Stop him.
00:45:04She's a vampire.
00:45:05Peter!
00:45:07Put yourself free, man.
00:45:16Oh, my.
00:45:18Don't leave me.
00:45:20Oh, my God.
00:45:26Oh, my God.
00:45:28Hey.
00:45:32Oh, my God.
00:45:34Oh, my God.
00:45:37Oh, my God.
00:45:39I can't.
00:46:09Come on.
00:46:39Come on.
00:47:09Come on.
00:47:19Keeley behaved like a man, demented, obsessed, utterly lost.
00:47:24All but the last vestige of sanity had left him.
00:47:29His words were prompted by some force, some nightmare outside himself.
00:47:35It is a shadow, a specter, that haunts us all.
00:47:37Murray, why the hell didn't you get your people to raid Pelham House?
00:47:41You should have called them the moment you got out of the dam.
00:47:42As a matter of fact, sir...
00:47:43I'm sorry, Colonel.
00:47:45Inspector Murray was quite right.
00:47:48At the time the police could have got there, they would have found nothing.
00:47:50Nothing?
00:47:52What about that Chinese woman?
00:47:53What about all those unfortunate creatures in the cellar?
00:47:55We are not dealing with ordinary criminals, Colonel Matthews.
00:47:59Nor with enemy agents.
00:48:02These people have powers beyond anything you can imagine.
00:48:07It didn't help Professor Keeley.
00:48:09Well, he's out of it now, anyway.
00:48:12One down and three to go.
00:48:14The Keeley Foundation.
00:48:16Who started it?
00:48:18The money's behind it.
00:48:21Some tycoon called Denham.
00:48:23D.D. Denham.
00:48:25There's very little known about him.
00:48:27He lives in the heart of the Denham building, no, thank you?
00:48:30He allows no press interviews or photographs.
00:48:33You've got a clue.
00:48:34Denham.
00:48:36You mean something?
00:48:37A link.
00:48:38Possibly a major one.
00:48:39Yes, here we are.
00:48:46The Denham group of companies.
00:48:48Chemicals, oils, banks.
00:48:51Board of directors, Denham himself.
00:48:54The Right Honourable John Porter.
00:48:57Lord Carradine.
00:48:58General Freeborn.
00:49:00And Keeley.
00:49:01And Uncle Tom Copley and all.
00:49:03This man.
00:49:04Denham.
00:49:05Perhaps Hanson was right.
00:49:07I think he was.
00:49:09You've already seen a manifestation of vampirism.
00:49:14The cult lives.
00:49:15It breathes.
00:49:16It spreads its vileness like a contagion.
00:49:18Like the plague.
00:49:22My family has fought this corruption for generations.
00:49:26Each time it was destroyed, so it has risen again.
00:49:28Like the phoenix.
00:49:29Not held bench on revenge.
00:49:31Only this time.
00:49:32This time, I believe it's not merely a personal vendetta,
00:49:36but something infinitely more far-reaching.
00:49:38The plague bacillus, Pelham House,
00:49:40the mental destruction of intellectuals,
00:49:43such as Professor Keeley and the others.
00:49:45It is all an integral part of a means to a definite end.
00:49:49The real force, the shadow I spoke of,
00:49:55is more sinister, more obscene than any monstrosity you can think of.
00:50:01Lord of corruption.
00:50:02Master of the undead.
00:50:05Count Dracula.
00:50:06Is there rarely such a creature?
00:50:11You should have been in that bloody cellar, Colonel.
00:50:18Incredible.
00:50:19My department is being closed down.
00:50:23Orders of John Porter.
00:50:25Half my staff have been arrested.
00:50:27Two have been killed.
00:50:29They've labelled us subversives,
00:50:30and the heavies are damn well looking for us.
00:50:32And all this because of a...
00:50:33a vampire?
00:50:35Van Helsing, for God's sake.
00:50:37Jessica, you should be resting.
00:50:39Oh, I'm all right, grandfather.
00:50:42I destroyed Count Dracula once.
00:50:44It was more than two years ago in Sir Bartos' churchyard.
00:50:47But this creature can live again by reincarnation.
00:50:50It requires a disciple,
00:50:52someone well-versed in the ritual.
00:50:54The Chinese woman, Chin Ye?
00:50:56Possibly.
00:50:56She would have to know the exact location of Dracula's grave.
00:51:01I passed the site of St. Bartos' tonight.
00:51:04The churchyard has long since vanished.
00:51:06An office block has been built there now.
00:51:14That new building is about two years old.
00:51:17Well, if it's been there for two years...
00:51:19That means this thing has been around since then.
00:51:22So it would seem.
00:51:23And those women in the cellar...
00:51:25their names have probably been on the files...
00:51:29of your missing persons bureau for two years.
00:51:35Anyway, that new office block...
00:51:37belongs to the Denham group of companies.
00:51:40Now, I don't know whether...
00:51:43the fifth guest was D.D. Denham...
00:51:45but this I do know.
00:51:47Vampires are spectral creatures.
00:51:49Their image casts no reflection in a mirror.
00:51:53Nor can the lens of a camera...
00:51:54I'll record their likeness.
00:52:02So there was someone there?
00:52:04Or something.
00:52:06Your man Hanson saw it...
00:52:06but his camera couldn't record it.
00:52:08How the hell do you fight a vampire?
00:52:11Cloves of garlic!
00:52:12There are many ways.
00:52:14The symbols of good are used to combat the forces of evil.
00:52:18The crucifix, the word of God, is written in the Holy Bible.
00:52:22Clear, running water, symbolizing purity.
00:52:25And it lives immortal dread of silver.
00:52:27Anything else?
00:52:29The hawthorn tree, which provided Christ with his crown of thorns.
00:52:32The light of day.
00:52:33And a wooden stake driven through the heart.
00:52:37What about the 23rd, the day that Keeley mentioned?
00:52:39Yes, indeed, the 23rd of this month.
00:52:42That, I fear, is the worst of all.
00:52:43It is the sabbat for the undead.
00:52:49What significance has that?
00:52:51There are satanic circles which govern our fate,
00:52:54and the fate of the earth.
00:52:55Perhaps even the universe.
00:52:59Now throughout history,
00:53:01there are certain times, certain dates,
00:53:03which are marked by awesome catastrophes.
00:53:05Each event is carefully plotted,
00:53:08and a definite pattern emerges.
00:53:11Every disaster this world has ever suffered coincides with the point
00:53:15wherein these circles meet and cross.
00:53:18In this century alone, they heralded the outbreak of two devastating world wars.
00:53:23And another disaster is imminent.
00:53:25Could be.
00:53:26The 23rd, that's the day after tomorrow.
00:53:28Now this must happen tomorrow at midnight.
00:53:29Might even sooner.
00:53:30At that hour, the devil holds a balance of power.
00:53:33He marshals his disciples, the living and the dead.
00:53:36In satanic covens, it is a celebration of supreme blasphemy.
00:53:40The sabbat for the undead.
00:53:42I've heard of the witch's sabbat.
00:53:43This date is much more important, more profound.
00:53:46Even more significant than the night of Valporges.
00:53:50Keeley said the bacillus had to be ready by the 23rd.
00:53:54Why?
00:53:56A date chosen by Dracula himself.
00:53:58The 23rd day of this 11th month.
00:54:01The emerging pattern, you see.
00:54:03The night of the soulless ones.
00:54:05And in the turmoil and fear that follows,
00:54:08a group of warped men emerge to take control.
00:54:11A politician, a soldier, an industrialist, a landowner.
00:54:16But Dracula would eventually end up with a totally barren earth.
00:54:19With any disease and dead bodies to feed on, surely even the vampire himself would perish.
00:54:26Perhaps deep in his subconscious, that is what he really wants.
00:54:31An end to it all.
00:54:32He is a cursed immortal, existing on violence, fear and dread.
00:54:39But suppose he, now just suppose he yearns for final peace.
00:54:43What then?
00:54:45He'd want to bring down the whole universe with you.
00:54:48The ultimate revenge.
00:54:50Thousands dying of the plague.
00:54:52Like the shadow of death itself,
00:54:53one figure scything its way through the terror and anguish.
00:54:57Count Dracula.
00:54:59It is the biblical prophecy of Armageddon.
00:55:17It is the biblical prophecy of Armageddon.
00:55:28Nothing.
00:55:29Nothing at all.
00:55:31It all seems so unbelievable by the light of day.
00:55:35But it's not.
00:55:36Well, what's going on?
00:55:48I'm not doing any good hanging around here.
00:55:50Professor Van Helsing is still at home.
00:55:52I'm with the Colonel down in the car.
00:55:55It's all this damned hanging around.
00:55:58Yes, I know.
00:56:06Well, they're all right, sir.
00:56:26A bit impatient, of course, but...
00:56:31Colonel?
00:56:36Well, let's go.
00:57:06Oh, my God.
00:57:36Let's go.
00:58:06It'll be getting dark soon.
00:58:08You should have heard something by now.
00:58:36Let's go.
00:59:06Let's go.
00:59:08Let's go.
00:59:10Let's go.
00:59:12Let's go.
00:59:14Let's go.
00:59:16Let's go.
00:59:18Let's go.
00:59:20Let's go.
00:59:22Let's go.
00:59:24Let's go.
00:59:26Let's go.
00:59:28Let's go.
00:59:30Let's go.
00:59:32Let's go.
00:59:34Let's go.
00:59:36Let's go.
00:59:38Let's go.
00:59:40Let's go.
00:59:42Let's go.
00:59:44Let's go.
00:59:46Let's go.
00:59:48Let's go.
00:59:50Let's go.
00:59:52Let's go.
00:59:54Let's go.
00:59:56Let's go.
00:59:58Let's go.
01:00:00Let's go.
01:00:02Let's go.
01:00:04Let's go.
01:00:06Come on, Jesse.
01:00:07The road can't be far away.
01:00:25Look, Jessica, he's out of the way.
01:00:28Come on, Jesse, the road can't be far away.
01:00:30Look, Jessica, he's only playing with us.
01:00:37He could pick us off at any time.
01:00:39Now, come on.
01:00:41Come on.
01:00:53Thank God the colonel's car's still there.
01:00:55Come on.
01:01:00Come on, let's get the engine started.
01:01:03Let's get moving.
01:01:08No!
01:01:08Stop!
01:01:30No!
01:01:31No!
01:01:32Yeah!
01:01:32No!
01:01:33No!
01:01:35No!
01:01:35No!
01:01:36No!
01:01:36No!
01:01:36No!
01:01:37No!
01:01:38No!
01:01:42Good evening.
01:01:43I'd like to see Mr. Denham.
01:01:45Mr. D.D. Denham.
01:01:46Mr. D.D.
01:01:48Dillon.
01:01:50Yes.
01:01:55Good evening.
01:01:57Good evening. I'd like to see Mr. Denham. Mr. D.D. Denham.
01:02:00I'm sorry, sir. No one sees Mr. Denham. No one at all. Ever.
01:02:05If you were to mention my name, I'm sure he'd see me. Van Helsing.
01:02:09Waste of time, sir. I assure you.
01:02:12Excuse me.
01:02:14Security reception?
01:02:16Yes, sir. But my standing instructions...
01:02:19Yes, sir.
01:02:22You ought to go up to Mr. Denham's private apartment, sir.
01:02:28Doesn't that thing make you feel self-conscious?
01:02:30All part of the job.
01:02:32Take the lift and press the... the red button.
01:02:35It'll stop right outside his suite.
01:02:37And, sir, um... you're... you're not carrying a camera, are you?
01:02:42My instructions... No. No camera.
01:02:57Yeah.
01:02:58That's a normal one here.
01:02:59I need a better...
01:03:00hello?
01:03:02I need a better to...
01:03:04Or else.
01:03:05In?
01:03:06...
01:03:07...
01:03:08Professor Van Helsing, Mr. Denham, I have been expecting you.
01:03:32I rather thought you might.
01:03:36Please sit down.
01:03:38I have been expecting you ever since Julian Keeley took his own life.
01:03:49Or was he murdered?
01:03:51He was a servant of this foundation.
01:03:55I am the master.
01:03:58His nerves failed him.
01:04:00The project he was working on was enough to shatter anyone's nerve.
01:04:04It is merely a deterrent.
01:04:06There is nothing more.
01:04:07There is a group of us who are determined that the decadence of the present day can and will be halted.
01:04:15A new political regime is planned.
01:04:18There is nothing more.
01:04:19To lend weight to one's arguments amid the rush and whirl of humanity, it is sometimes necessary to be persuasive.
01:04:28Persuasive?
01:04:29There are a few vague rituals, it is true, a little occultism, a touch of mysticism at Pelham House, nothing more.
01:04:42Evil begets evil, there is an unholy aura in this place, and it is not a question of a little occultism, or a touch of mysticism, Mr. Denham, it is vampirism, and there's a host of damned souls at Pelham House.
01:05:00What are you going to do with me?
01:05:05You can't let me go, can you?
01:05:07I know too much.
01:05:09Do you mind if I spoke?
01:05:11It's a bad habit, I know, but it helps me to concentrate.
01:05:16I'm sorry.
01:05:28I'm sorry.
01:05:46Am I to suffer the same fate as Professor Keeley?
01:05:54You are an interfering man, Professor.
01:05:58Do not meddle, or you will have to deal with me.
01:06:07You are Count Dracula.
01:06:11Of course, Mr. Denham.
01:06:14The powerful recluse.
01:06:16Here you are safe.
01:06:17No one expects to see him.
01:06:19Not in the daytime.
01:06:25Sole Deo Gloria.
01:06:27Missi Dominus.
01:06:29Frustra.
01:06:37You foolish man.
01:06:39A bullet cannot harm me.
01:06:42A silver bullet, Dracula.
01:07:05Kill him.
01:07:06He threatened you.
01:07:11It cannot be made so simple for him.
01:07:15Not for Van Helsing.
01:07:20Nor for his granddaughter.
01:07:36No.
01:07:37I got that.
01:07:38You Eric, that's not the only way.
01:07:39You are lying to her.
01:07:40No, no, no.
01:07:41You are lying to me.
01:07:42I would just hurt you, Roger.
01:07:43In thei.
01:07:44You are lying.
01:07:45It's a trap.
01:07:46You are lying to her.
01:07:47You are lying to me.
01:07:48You are lying to me.
01:07:50You are lying to me.
01:07:52Ideally, I'm lying to him.
01:07:53You are lying to her.
01:07:54When did he look at you?
01:07:55where's jessica i have hidden away well i suggest you go and find her i would i promise you but
01:08:13first you must help me help you i too want to get away from this place i'm as much a prisoner as you
01:08:20yeah but but you live here not by choice
01:08:24nilla donna diaccei moini volami e sialu molicila nilla molicila nilla moini
01:08:40in god's name
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01:11:54Please, God.
01:12:24Please, God.
01:12:54Please, God.
01:13:24Please, God.
01:13:54Please, God.
01:14:24The eve of the sabbath of the undead.
01:14:29I call upon you to witness my supreme triumph.
01:14:37And Helsing, I choose the spawn of your blood to be my consort.
01:14:47I know my son.
01:14:51I know my son.
01:14:53I'm sorry.
01:14:59The instrument of my final conquest.
01:15:20Swifter, more awesome than the black death, the plague.
01:15:44In the first moments, every muscle, every fiber will be a fire with
01:15:49torment and agony. In the days to come, you will pray for death.
01:16:02Release.
01:16:04And so you destroy every living soul on this earth, and are left with an empty world to command.
01:16:11Is that what you want, Count Dracula? A last blaze of utter horror and violence?
01:16:17The ghastly annihilation of an entire planet? Is this your own death wish?
01:16:24I have chosen four messengers of death. Four horsemen of my created apocalypse.
01:16:37Four carriers of the plague who will infect their miserable brethren.
01:16:41You, Van Helsing, are now one of the four.
01:16:50The body of your granddaughter will never be corrupted.
01:16:56It will be her joy to walk at my side.
01:17:02Four carriers.
01:17:06Us?
01:17:08You mean us?
01:17:10You said we would use the plague only as a deterrent.
01:17:12To hold governments to ransom.
01:17:14You promised us power.
01:17:16I have served you faithfully.
01:17:17Silence!
01:17:24The girl that you love is mine already, and through her you will yet do my bidding.
01:17:33In your name, for you, everything we did exactly as we were commanded.
01:17:46In return you promised.
01:18:03In return you promised.
01:18:08In return you promised.
01:18:10In return.
01:18:13In return you promised.
01:18:15In return to trial.
01:18:18For you, what?
01:18:20In return you promised!
01:18:22The girl is in return from now!
01:18:24A single day!
01:18:26In return you promised.
01:18:27In return you promised.
01:18:31You open too many deals?
01:19:01Ah! Ah! Ah!
01:19:31Ah!
01:19:40Ah!
01:20:01Ah!
01:20:04Ah!
01:20:06Ah!
01:20:09Ah!
01:20:11Ah!
01:20:14Ah!
01:20:16Ah!
01:20:19Ah!
01:20:31Ah!
01:20:39Hurry!
01:20:40Get Jessica away!
01:20:41Get her away, men! Hurry!
01:20:56My revenge has spread over centuries
01:20:58and has just begun!
01:21:01Ah!
01:21:03Ah!
01:21:06No!
01:21:08No!
01:21:09No!
01:21:10Come on.
01:21:40Come on.
01:22:10Come on.
01:22:11Come on.
01:22:12Come on.
01:22:13Come on.
01:22:14Come on.
01:22:15Jessica.
01:22:16Jessica.
01:22:17Jessica.
01:22:18Jessica.
01:22:19Jessica.
01:22:20Jessica.
01:22:21Jessica.
01:22:22Jessica.
01:22:23How the hell do you fight a vampire?
01:22:27There are many ways.
01:22:28The symbols of good are used to combat the forces of evil.
01:22:34The hawthorn tree, which provided price for his crown of thorns.
01:22:35Count Dracula!
01:22:36Count Dracula!
01:22:37Count Dracula!
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