Count Dracula:
For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.
[
first lines]
Young Girl Passenger:
[
reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."
Renfield:
No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything, I told them nothing. I am loyal to you master.
Count Dracula:
I am Dracula.
Renfield:
Oh, it's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage and... Well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula:
I bid you welcome.
[
Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling]
Count Dracula:
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
[
Dracula goes up the steps and waits for Renfield, who, without difficulty, cuts open a hole in a huge spider's web using his walking stick]
Count Dracula:
The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield:
Why, er... yes.
Renfield:
Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me.
Renfield:
I'm loyal to you, Master, I am your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh, no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!
[
Dracula picks up Renfield with his bony hands and in a few seconds, Renfield dies]
Innkeeper:
Castle Dracula?
Renfield:
Yes. That's where I'm going.
Innkeeper:
To the castle?
Renfield:
Yes.
Innkeeper:
No. You musn't go there. We people of the mountains believe in the castle there are vampires. Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.
Count Dracula:
Van Helsing.
[
Van Helsing turns to face Count Dracula]
Count Dracula:
Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country.
Van Helsing:
I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy.
Count Dracula:
You are too late. My blood now flows through her veins. She will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived.
Van Helsing:
Should you escape us, Dracula. We know how to save Miss Mina's soul if not her life.
Count Dracula:
If she dies by day. But I shall see that she dies by night.
Van Helsing:
And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down, stone by stone, excavated a mile around. I will find your earth-box and drive that stake through your heart.
Count Dracula:
Come here.
[
Dracula raises his hand to hypnotise Van Helsing]
Count Dracula:
Come here.
[
Van Helsing takes three hypnotised steps towards Dracula but soon steps back, resisting Dracula's hypnotic power over him]
Count Dracula:
Your will is strong, Van Helsing.
[
Van Helsing reaches out for his crucifix as Dracula looms toward him]
Count Dracula:
More wolfbane?
Van Helsing:
More effective than wolfbane, Count.
Count Dracula:
Indeed.
[
Dracula lunges towards Van Helsing. Van Helsing holds up the crucifix. Dracula snarls and turns away. Van Helsing, in triumph, puts away the crucifix]
Count Dracula:
I am Dracula. I bid you welcome.
Count Dracula:
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Martin:
Aren't you ashamed now? Aren't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough!
Renfield:
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?
Martin:
You do, you loony!
Renfield:
Not when I can get nice fat spiders!
Martin:
All right, have it your own way.
Van Helsing:
Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.
Scholar:
Nosferatu
Van Helsing:
Yes, Nosferatu.
Count Dracula:
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music *they* make.
Count Dracula:
This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield:
Aren't you drinking?
Count Dracula:
I never drink wine.
Renfield:
I'm loyal to you Master, I 'm your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me - torture me - but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands!
Van Helsing:
You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
Renfield:
God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.
Count Dracula:
To die, to be *really* dead, that must be glorious!
Mina Seward:
Why, Count Dracula!
Count Dracula:
There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Lucy Weston:
Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there... Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!
Van Helsing:
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
Maid:
He's crazy!
Martin:
They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have my doubts about you.
Maid:
Yes.
Count Dracula:
The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly... The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Mina Seward:
...I heard dogs howling. And when the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist. It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog. And then I saw two red eyes glaring at me. And a white livid face came down out of the mist. It came closer and closer. I felt its breath on my face and then its lips... oh!
Renfield:
[
overhearing Van Helsing discussing vampires] Isn't this a strange conversation, for people who aren't crazy?
Count Dracula:
[
tries to hypnotize Van Helsing and fails] Your will is strong.
[
tries to attack]
Van Helsing:
[
takes out a crucifix without fear] Indeed.
Mina Seward:
[
doing an impression of Dracula] It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania.
[
chuckles]
Mina Seward:
Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!
Lucy Weston:
Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.
Mina Seward:
Oh, I suppose he's all right. But give me someone a little more normal.
Lucy Weston:
Like John?
Mina Seward:
Yes, dear, like John.
Lucy Weston:
[
dreamily] Castle... Dracula... Transylvania!
Mina Seward:
Well, Countess! I'll leave you to your count and his ruined abbey!
[
both giggle]
Mina Seward:
Good night, Lucy.
Lucy Weston:
Good night, dear.
Renfield:
He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.
Van Helsing:
Doing them?
Renfield:
By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red,l ike his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"
Van Helsing:
What did he want you to do?
Renfield:
That which has already been done!
[
giggles sinisterly]
Renfield:
You know too much to live, Van Helsing!
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