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twin archaeologists Karl and Franz Schiller seek the mythical, power-granting Ring of the Nibelungen. Franz arrives first in Transylvania, entering a vampire-infested castle owned by Countess Dolingen de Vries. The Countess uses the ring to lure local virgins, murdering them to bathe in their blood to remain eternally youthful.
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00:04:09Could it be that perhaps it's the same ring?
00:04:39And much of his strange and evil power was attributed to this mysterious unknown ring, which endowed him with extraordinary
00:04:48and supernatural powers, not merely over creatures of his own curious ilk, but over mankind as well.
00:04:59The ring's golden band had embedded in it a large glowing stone having the color of blood, and when the
00:05:06light of the full moon struck its surface, weird, eerie, and uncanny phenomena took place, and the sinister night creatures
00:05:14lurking in the shadows would have their black feast.
00:05:38Once upon a midnight dreary,
00:05:42as he pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
00:05:51Well, Edgar Allan Poe, a writer from the new world who's quite the rage these days, I'd say his morbid
00:05:57style is rather suited to you, Carl.
00:06:00Well, don't you ever tire of pondering, dear boy.
00:06:04Franz, I've just made an important discovery.
00:06:07Well, I hope it's important enough to cover all my gambling debts with.
00:06:11Again, lady luck wasn't very kind to me tonight.
00:06:15It's incredible, Franz.
00:06:17The long-lost ring of the Nibelungen.
00:06:19I think I've discovered its whereabouts.
00:06:22The ring of the Nibelungen?
00:06:24I thought it only existed in Wagner's operas.
00:06:28We're out of brandy.
00:06:30It's legend they spack much farther.
00:06:32Much before Wagner.
00:06:34Jeoda spoke of it in 200 B.C.
00:06:36So did Tarpon 1300, and here again, Sinesia the Greek.
00:06:42The possessor of the ring may have power over all mankind if he's willing to renounce love.
00:06:48Hmm.
00:06:49Quite a price to pay, love.
00:06:53It's reputed to have passed through the hands of some of the most powerful figures in history.
00:06:58Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan,
00:07:01Attila the Hun, Ivan the Terrible,
00:07:04William the Conqueror.
00:07:05Shilla the Archaeologist.
00:07:07You jest.
00:07:09But I'm convinced that it actually exists, and I intend to find it.
00:07:13Just think of it, Franz.
00:07:15The ring of the Nibelungen.
00:07:17Yes, I've decided to leave in the morning.
00:07:20You're not wasting any time, are you?
00:07:22Well, what does this magnificent treasure look like?
00:07:26Hmm.
00:07:34The ring is singular in its aspect.
00:07:36It's banned fashioned from common gold, but with a huge stone that, although similar in appearance to a ruby, is
00:07:43comprised of a substance unlike that of any to be found on earth.
00:07:48One theory has it that the stone itself was extricated from an ancient meteorite which landed in the Carpathian Mountains.
00:07:53I dare say it must be quite valuable.
00:07:57Invaluable.
00:07:58Any collector would be willing to pay millions for it.
00:08:01But if I find it, I shall never allow it to fall into private hands.
00:08:05Too precarious for mankind.
00:08:08No.
00:08:09I shall consign it straight away to the Karnstein Museum of Archaeology, where, safe and secure, the ring will go
00:08:16on display for all to see.
00:08:17Karl, your benevolence overwhelms me.
00:08:21And where did you say was last seen this fantastic ring of yours?
00:08:25The Carpathian Mountains?
00:08:27In Transylvania.
00:08:30Transylvania.
00:08:33But that's vampire country.
00:08:38You have heard of those blood-sucking creatures, haven't you?
00:08:49Eliphas, in his Book of Occult Mysteries, describes them thusly.
00:08:54Sine morte mortus, sine vite vivent.
00:08:59Alive without life, dead without death.
00:09:03Aren't you frightened you might get bitten on the neck?
00:09:08I never exclude any possibility.
00:09:11So I shall go protect it.
00:09:13I found this talisman, this amulet, during my expedition in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
00:09:21It was worn in homage to the demon god Pazuzu.
00:09:24Pazuzu?
00:09:25It's supposed to protect the wearer against all forms of supernatural evil, of any sort.
00:09:30Which, I take it, would apply to vampires, too.
00:09:33Hm.
00:09:35If indeed they do exist.
00:09:37Well, I'd better rest up for the journey ahead.
00:09:39So I bid you goodnight, France.
00:09:43Where exactly in Transylvania are you going?
00:09:45Just in case I should have to come and rescue you.
00:09:48In the proximity of a village called Ladracou.
00:09:51Castle Dracula, to be exact.
00:10:04Let's dig and rescue you, evade.
00:10:15But you didn't want to take possession of, to remember to sell aiarian,
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00:11:57A tall beer, and a soft bed.
00:12:30I'll be right back.
00:12:54My room?
00:12:55My daughter will show you to your room.
00:13:18This way, please.
00:13:28Yes.
00:13:50Rather strange, those boys downstairs.
00:14:40What happens?
00:14:42They go off in the middle of the night, and they never come back.
00:14:48Terrible things are supposed to happen to them.
00:14:50But you don't believe this legend.
00:14:52I don't want to.
00:14:54But some of the elders of the village swear to it.
00:14:58Well, I seem to have arrived in time for the fun.
00:15:01You joke.
00:15:04Why are you worried?
00:15:06I wish I could help.
00:15:09Must you go to that horrible castle?
00:15:16I have nothing to worry about.
00:15:21You see this amulet?
00:15:24It's magic.
00:15:28All I do is put it around my neck.
00:15:33And I'm protected against evil monsters of all sorts.
00:15:37And since they're only interested in virgins, why,
00:15:39I'm doubly protected.
00:15:44How insensitive I must seem, thinking of my own protection,
00:15:51when I should think of yours.
00:16:12Come over again.
00:16:23Born in my grave of a ditch now.
00:16:28That's me.
00:16:29Why, why?!
00:16:29I can not talk it in y'all too.
00:16:29What'd I say about my tulip
00:16:29There you go.
00:16:35I can't believe that.
00:16:38It was hard being gathered until me.
00:16:39Here, here, here, here, here.
00:18:10Oh, excuse me, I didn't see you.
00:18:14I hope you'll forgive this early morning intrusion, but I was quite anxious to visit the castle here.
00:18:18I'm making a tour of the castles in Transylvania to complete my architectural studies, and I...
00:18:23Oh, forgive me.
00:18:24I'm Dr. Schiller.
00:18:26Dr. Franz Schiller.
00:18:29This way.
00:19:01I'll see you next time.
00:19:01I'll see you next time.
00:19:31The Countess Stalingan de Vries is absent.
00:19:35Oh.
00:19:36When do you expect to return?
00:19:38Perhaps in a few hours.
00:19:40Or maybe later.
00:19:44Or only this evening.
00:19:51Perhaps.
00:20:09The amulet.
00:20:11The
00:20:12Mm-hmm.
00:20:12I don't know.
00:20:42I don't know.
00:21:12I don't know.
00:21:54I don't know.
00:22:19I don't know.
00:22:27I don't know.
00:22:42I don't know.
00:22:53I don't know.
00:23:17I don't know.
00:23:46I don't know.
00:24:17You are the Countess Doling and De Vries, I presume?
00:24:20I am.
00:24:23My apologies.
00:24:24I came across the crypt by accident.
00:24:26By accident?
00:24:26Yes.
00:24:28Yes.
00:24:28You see, I was following up.
00:24:30Yes.
00:24:32Shadow of some sort.
00:24:39I don't know.
00:24:42I don't know.
00:25:03You don't know.
00:25:05You don't understand.
00:25:05You don't understand.
00:25:05I found her corpse in an open grave.
00:25:09Perhaps the legend of this castle is having a deleterious effect on your reason or a stimulating effect on your
00:25:16fancy.
00:25:18wouldn't you say so, Lara?
00:25:43wouldn't you say so, Lara?
00:25:47No, no.
00:25:49No.
00:25:52Unfortunately, she has no sense of humor.
00:25:56Lara, set another place at the table.
00:26:00You will stay for dinner, won't you, Mr. Schiller?
00:26:05Yes.
00:26:07Of course.
00:26:28Indeed, and it doesn't give you a strange feeling living here, in the very same castle once inhabited by the...
00:26:37...infamous Count Dracula.
00:26:38Quite frankly, it has no such effect upon me, Mr. Schiller.
00:26:43I feel very much at home here.
00:26:45Oh.
00:26:47Forgive me.
00:26:47I seem to have committed a faux pas.
00:26:50You are related, then, to the Count?
00:26:57You need have no fear.
00:27:00I'm merely indebted to him insofar as his infamous name and reputation...
00:27:04...made it possible for me to acquire this estate for a rather modest sum.
00:27:10I can't help asking myself how a woman, lovely and charming as you are, can bear wasting her beauty in
00:27:18the confines of these melancholy walls.
00:27:20The outside world has so much to offer you.
00:27:23What?
00:27:25Parties?
00:27:26Dances?
00:27:28And other mundane frivolities?
00:27:31No.
00:27:32It can offer me no more than that which I already have.
00:27:36The peace and quiet, this marvelous sense of solitude and eternal tranquility, which permeates everything around here.
00:27:45It makes me feel more alive and sensitive to certain things.
00:27:52Sensations, which one misses in the outside world.
00:27:56Can you understand?
00:27:59Yes, I understand.
00:28:01But I fear that I could never give up to the extent that you have those mundane frivolities, which afford
00:28:07me so much pleasure.
00:28:09Who knows what pleasures you might find if you tried.
00:28:25No, thank you.
00:28:27All this wine, I'm afraid, is making my head spin.
00:28:32My head's spinning also, but not from the wine.
00:28:35Oh, Mr. Schiller, you do have a way about you.
00:28:40I imagine women find you quite irresistible.
00:28:44Do they?
00:28:47Do you?
00:28:50Quite.
00:28:52But perhaps not in the same way as the others.
00:28:57Oh?
00:28:59In what way then?
00:29:02Differently.
00:29:06Oh, my dear Countess.
00:29:08All of the other women in my life, I like so many ladies of the night compared to you.
00:29:16Ah, but I am in my own fashion also a lady of the night.
00:29:57I've never known a woman like you.
00:29:59Oh, Franz.
00:30:03Oh, Franz.
00:30:21Excuse me.
00:30:22In which direction is Castle Dracula?
00:30:27Here.
00:30:38Yeah.
00:30:44Yeah.
00:30:46Yeah.
00:30:48Good.
00:34:05But your reaction is one I know quite well.
00:34:07It tells me my twin brother Franz has already been here.
00:34:11May I see him?
00:34:14I'm Karl Schiller.
00:34:16Or am I intruding?
00:34:19Do come in.
00:34:20Do come in.
00:34:34Follow me.
00:34:37Your brother was here indeed, but he has already departed.
00:34:41He has.
00:34:43He has.
00:34:44That's strange as I was supposed to meet him here.
00:34:47Oh really?
00:34:49Mr. Schiller, the resemblance is truly extraordinary.
00:34:54Yes.
00:35:03I found your brother's comportment strange.
00:35:09I found your brother's comportment strange.
00:35:23architectural studies.
00:35:27And then, and then with hardly word of thanks for the hospitality accorded him, he left.
00:35:34Abruptly.
00:35:36Abruptly.
00:35:37Abruptly.
00:35:43That's not like Franz.
00:35:46Where did he go?
00:35:48A lady may be forgiven curiosity, Mr. Schiller, but not indiscretion.
00:35:55Besides, like I said, he left suddenly without saying anything.
00:36:02I admit I was rather offended, but then, this unexpected appearance of his identical twin brother
00:36:11is having the most placating effect upon me.
00:36:15Hmm.
00:36:17You will stay the night, won't you, Mr. Schiller?
00:36:21If only to make amends for your family's chivalry and honor.
00:36:26If only to make amends.
00:37:13You can't imagine what to make amends for your family.
00:37:16That's not like the family's chivalry and honor, but it's a great humorous man.
00:37:16If only to make amends for your family's chivalry and honor, you'll be here to be there.
00:37:25This is not like you.
00:37:26Oh, oh, oh!
00:37:39Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:41:31Friends, the amulet.
00:41:33The amulet was saved.
00:41:48The amulet was saved.
00:42:32The amulet was saved.
00:42:34The amulet was saved.
00:42:43I shouldn't worry too much about your brother.
00:42:46I trust you enjoyed supper, and I'm quite certain that come tomorrow, you shall find him.
00:42:52I'm certain.
00:42:55Good night, Mr. Schindler.
00:42:57Good night, madam.
00:43:01Good night.
00:43:13Good night.
00:43:15Good night.
00:43:25Good night.
00:43:28Good night.
00:43:41Good night.
00:43:43Good night.
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