Quotes

[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."

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: 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]

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: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

Van Helsing: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.

Scholar: Nosferatu

Van Helsing: Yes, Nosferatu.

Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.

Renfield: Aren't you drinking?

Count Dracula: I never drink wine.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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]

Van Helsing: What have you to do with Dracula?

Renfield: DRACULA?... I never even heard the name before

Martin: [Referring to Renfield] I've heard to wolves howling at night he thinks that are talking to him. He's CRAZY!