Blood Sabbath (1972) - full transcript

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC - CHUCK COWAN, "TITLE
SONG"]

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[HOOTING]

-Would you like a cold tea?

-Oh, sure.

Thank--

-Whoa!

-Why you--

[HOOTING]

-Bye bye.



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Bye bye!

[MUSIC - CHUCK COWAN, "TITLE
SONG"]

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[LAUGHTER]

MAN: Hey man, we're outta beer.

Let's go get some
more out of the cabin.

Come on.

-Aww.

-(WHISPERING) Hey,
there's that kid again.

-(WHISPERING) Shh.

Let's have some fun.

[GIGGLING]

Sweet Jesus, ain't he something.



DAVID: Ow!

Hey!

What is this?

[GIGGLING]

-Think he's got money on him.

Come on.

Come on, get his pants.

Come on, get his pants.

-Christ, get away from me!

Goddammit!

-Ooh!

-Ow!

[GROANING]

-Wanda, don't let him go.

Hey, there he goes.

That way.

-Hurry up.

-Let's get him.

WOMAN 1: Hey, there he is.

WOMAN 2: Oh.

You think he's dead?

WOMAN 1: I don't know.

Let's get the hell out of here.

[GROAN]

-Who are you?

How'd I get here?

Oh wait, please.

Don't go.

-Let me go.

-Only if you promise
to come back.

-Please let me go.

-Will you come back?

Will you?

-Yes.

But I have to go now.

-When?

-Tomorrow.

LONZO: Are you all right?

-Mm.

-Shh, shh, shh, shh.

Never mind.

Do not try to speak.

Come, let me help you.

[GRUNTING]

What happened to you?

-I don't know.

-Where did you come from?

-Come from?

I come from-- Vietnam.

-Morning, amigo.

I found you near the lake.

I found those clothes in
the woods not far from here.

I take it they must be yours.

Oh, there was nothing else.

Are you feeling any better?

-Something very
strange happened.

-Mm.

First we'll eat something,
then I will take you

and show you to the
nearest village.

-There was a girl.

-Always.

Always there's a girl
in a man's dream.

-No, no, no.

This, this wasn't a dream.

She was there.

She was there and she-- she
said that she'd come back to me.

Which way is the lake?

-No good comes of that lake--
except the fish I catch.

Even they are
getting hard to find.

-Thank you.

-Wait!

Wait, don't go.

-I've got to find the girl.

I've--

-Dreams can wait, but empty
stomachs must be filled.

Please.

Please.

-You live here by yourself?

-Yes, my name is Lonzo.

What is yours?

DAVID: David.

DAVID (VOICEOVER):
She said tomorrow.

That was yesterday.

Or was it?

Vietnam-- was that
yesterday too?

Did I really see her
or did I imagine it?

No.

No, dammit, I did
see her, I know it.

Gotta find her.

Got to.

[SIGH]

-Well?

Did you find your dream?

'Course you didn't.

You'll never find her.

You know why?

Because she does not exist.

This place was never meant
to be your destination.

This place means
only loneliness.

You should be moving on.

-Oh no, I, I can't leave yet.

Not yet.

Lonzo, let me stay.

Please.

[SIGH]

-All right.

Go inside, get some rest.

-You are real.

-Do you think I am?

-I want you to be.

-Then I am.

-I looked everywhere for you.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

My name's David.

What's yours?

-Yyala.

-Yyala.

Where are we going?

-This is the place where I
come when the spirits are

angry with me-- and when
I want to be by myself.

-Uh, these, um, spirits--
are they mad at you now?

[SIGH]

-Yes.

-Well, guess you want
to be alone then.

-No.

-I don't want to
be alone either.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I must-- I must go, David.

-Oh no.

No, wait, please.

Stay with me a little while.

I want to be with you.

Yyala, I've never
known before what

it is to really want someone.

-I want you too.

But it can't be.

I'm going to the lake.

-Why are you here?

What is it you want of me?

-There is a boy.

I saw him in the cave.

-He is not of our village.

-He is your friend.

-Yes, he is my friend.

So?

So?

-Bring him to me.

-No.

That is not part
of our agreement.

-I'm want him, Lonzo.

-I will bring you a child,
just as I have done each year.

Nothing else.

[CHUCKLING]

I am not afraid of you, Alotta,
nor of any of your treachery.

Now get out!

Out!

-We shall see, Lonzo.

We shall see.

-I want her so much!

I don't understand it.

Lonzo, you know
something about her.

You've got to tell me.

-There is a legend of a water
nymph who lives in the cove.

They say she is very dangerous
and has mysterious powers,

but it is only a legend.

They say that, but
they are an ignorant

and superstitious
people, unlike you.

-But I've seen her.

-Look, you are well now.

I think it is time.

It is best you are
on your way, yes?

-Yyala is real, damn you!

-This is David.

This candle is he.

Flame burns as his spirit.

Burns!

This is his heart.

Great is his love for me.

Every wish he moves to fulfill.

No rest shall he know
until beside me he lies!

-Don't come near or I'll
go away and never return.

Then if you don't
care, I will go.

-No, stay!

Please.

I want you to stay.

-And why is it you
want me to stay?

-Because.

[GIGGLING]

Because I think I love you.

-(LAUGHING) So you
only think you love me.

Well, I may come
back after you've

had enough time
to think about it.

-Yyala!

I do love you.

Do you love me?

-Yes.

More than I dare to.

David, if I were to love
you completely, I would die.

-Yyala, I can't play
these games anymore.

I'm going out of
my mind with you.

-But what I say to you is true.

You are of the land
and I am of the sea.

You have a soul and I do not.

-You're really serious.

-I may not love
anyone who has a soul.

-But I can't just
be rid of my soul.

Is that what you want me to do?

-I tell you this so that you'll
understand why-- why we can't

be together and why you must
go back to your own world.

-Yyala, my world has no
meaning for me without you.

Don't you understand?

I want you more than my world.

-I'm sorry, David.

I must go.

-No, wait.

Even if I wanted to
get rid of my soul,

I wouldn't-- I
wouldn't know how.

But you must know a way.

-The danger is too great.

-Then there is a way.

What is it?

Yyala, what is it?

LONZO (VOICEOVER):
This place was

never meant to be
your destination.

DAVID (VOICEOVER): My world
has no meaning without her.

YYALA (VOICEOVER): You have
a soul, David, and I do not.

LONZO (VOICEOVER):
I think it is time.

It is best you were on your way.

YYALA (VOICEOVER): I may not
love anyone who has a soul.

DAVID (VOICEOVER):
But must be a way.

YYALA (VOICEOVER): Go, David.

The danger is too great.

DAVID (VOICEOVER): No.

No.

-Don't ask me about souls.

I don't know about souls.

Fish, sheep-- but souls?

-Well, who else can I ask?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Ah.

Ah, that I can understand.

Eh?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

That music.

That music means my people
have survived another year.

Life is good, the land
is-- the land is fruitful.

-Yeah, life is good for you.

I want it that way for me.

-Here, you wear this
and I wear this.

You know, I haven't been in
that village for a whole year.

A whole year.

How's my hair?

[SNICKERING]

-Good.

-Ah, you wear this.

Ah.

High-spirited women,
tequila, and music

that'll stir the blood.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SINGING IN SPANISH]

[CHEERING]

[APPLAUSE]

VILLAGER: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

-Maria.

Maria!

Dos.

-Mi corazon!

-Oh, Dolores!

Ahh.

Hey, God's great gifts to man.

Later.

Oh, life is good.

The whole year they
struggle, hoping,

trusting in the harvest.

Again they have won.

They celebrate their
victory by sharing

their good fortune
with the gods.

They welcome us to
their wine, their women,

their songs-- and their dances.

This is your custom, is it not?

-Yes.

-He knows it too.

After this is over,
he will forgive them.

They will confess and
he'll forgive them.

-[SINGING IN SPANISH]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Come along.

Go home.

Go home, sleep.

Go.

-I'm sorry, Padre.

-No, it's all right.

I see you've come for
your yearly visit.

-Am I not welcome?

-The villagers say you are.

-And you?

-Will you be going to the
mountain again this year?

-I will go.

-And another child
will be sacrificed?

-Before I brought a child to the
mountain, there was no harvest.

-It is God who provides the
harvest, not the witches.

You cannot pay homage to both.

-Tell that to the people
who go to your church.

-But a child-- an
innocent child!

[GUNFIRE]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Please, you're making
me feel like a funeral.

Funeral?

This is a party.

Here-- have a real
drink now, huh?

Feels good.

Everybody needs it.

Eh?

[COUGHING]

[CHUCKLING]

Hey, Dolores!

Come here.

Come here, baby.

Good.

Hey, Maria.

-Oh.

Hey, Lonzo, uh-- thank you
very much, but I-- no--

[LAUGHTER]

Mm!

Mm!

No!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm sorry about
that girl, Padre.

I don't seem to know
what I'm doing anymore.

-Are you troubled, my son?

You like to talk about it?

-Padre, you know all
about souls, don't you?

I mean, how to s-save
them and all that.

-Yes.

-Do you know how somebody
would go about losing his soul?

-(CHUCKLING) Has the
tequila gone to your head?

-No, I want to be rid of mine.

-Are you serious?

-Dead serious.

Padre, please, you've got
to tell me how to do it.

-What is happening
in my village?

Am I not supposed to hear?

Not supposed to see or feel?

You're asking me to help
you get rid of your soul?

No!

Dammit, I say no!

Go!

Eat!

Drink!

Go have your harvest!

Damn you, all of you!

I say no more!

No more!

Go!

Go!

[VILLAGERS MURMURING]

[COYOTE HOWLING]

[WOMAN MOANING]

Oh my god.

My child, what have
they done to you?

-Oh, help me, Padre, please.

Alotta, she plans to--

ALOTTA: Gemma?

You honor us with your
presence, my friend.

-Release that girl, damn you!

-Oh, Gemma.

She's merely being punished for
some disobedience and lying.

Really, my friend.

Thirsty, no doubt.

Bring the wine and, and
release the prisoner in honor

of the padre's visit.

-Do not think that you
can trick me or fool me.

-Now why would I
want to do that?

You kept your part
of the bargain.

You haven't interfered.

And I've kept mine.

Friendship and peace
which benefits all.

Come, my friend.

You're tired.

Her name is Nadia.

I don't think you've
seen her before.

She's yours if you like.

-I came here for other reasons.

-Oh?

All things in good time.

Which one, Padre?

Which one will it be?

The most secret.

Is your blood on fire?

This one.

This one, Padre, is Karma.

You've known Karma
before-- the memory

of which excites you yet.

-Prisoner!

Where is she?

-How suspicious
you are this night.

As you can see, Padre, the
prisoner's been released.

She's yours to command.

Well, go to him, Gemma.

He is your benefactor.

-No, no, no.

No, my child.

Come, sit down.

Do not be frightened.

Come, you are safe here.

Sit.

Here, drink this.

[LAUGHTER]

Oh.

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

ALOTTA: Ah, she
likes you, Padre.

Enjoy her at your pleasure.

[GIGGLING]

[CACKLING]

-No!

No!

I remember why I came here.

I must warn you, Alotta.

-Warn me?

-All this must stop.

No more children, no more souls.

-You speak for
all the villagers?

-Yes.

I speak for them,
finally, as their priest.

I also speak for my god.

-Oh.

So all of this must stop, hm?

And what of your own pleasures?

Hm?

-This too is in the past.

I will come here no longer.

-No!

Padre, no.

If you go, they'll sacrifice me.

-What?

Are you resuming
the blood sacrifice?

-None of your concern.

-You think me an old and
foolish man, don't you?

Perhaps I am, but
I will stop you.

I will destroy
you and your cult!

I swear by my god, I will.

I will destroy
you and your cult.

-What will become of us now?

-Enough!

Samara-- Samara,
bring me his likeness.

How dare he threaten
the power of your queen.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[GIGGLING]

[LAUGHTER]

His fate is sealed.

[CROW CAWING]

-A signal.

Oh my god.

It is time.

They're here.

What if I don't go?

No, then Alotta-- she would
take revenge on the villagers.

No.

No, no, no, I must go, I must.

Come here, little one.

[SOBBING]

-(SOBBING) Not-- no--

DAVID: Lonzo!

-Hmm?

-What the hell is going on here?

What are you doing
with this child?

-This is none of your business.

-Where are you taking her?

-You would not understand.

This has nothing to do with you.

-Where are you taking
this child, Lonzo?

-Look, this is
something that has

been going on for
many, many years.

-What has?

-An agreement.

An agreement with the witches.

Each year, a child
must be delivered.

-You mean sacrificed.

-She will not die.

No harm will come to her.

-What will they
do with her then?

-They will take her
soul and, after a while,

she will become one of them.

-And then?

Lonzo, wait-- you don't
have to take them the child.

There's another way.

-Hmm?

-They want a soul, right?

-Right.

-I don't want mine.

Don't you see?

Lonzo, it's the only
way I can be with Yyala.

-No, David, you can't.

-Lonzo, you've got
to help me, please.

Please help me.

LONZO (VOICEOVER): The queen of
the witches is called Alotta.

She is very powerful
and treacherous.

She is served by a coven
of witches who are totally

in her power-- the children of
the villagers, now grown up.

She will try to trick
you, David, so be careful

or you may yet lose both
your soul and Yyala.

[CACKLING]

[CACKLING]

[CACKLING]

[CACKLING]

[CACKLING]

-Hello?

[CACKLING]

Are you Alotta?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[CACKLING]

I want Alotta!

Alotta!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Looking for Alotta!

Alotta!

Alotta!

If I don't return, Lonzo
won't bring you the child!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-You dare to threaten me?

DAVID: Wait!

Lonzo won't bring the child.

-And how does that concern you?

-I sent them back.

-If that's true, the villagers
will pay very heavily.

And so will you.

-Alotta, you want a soul.

-Mhm.

-I've got one for you.

-You?

And whose will you bring me?

-Mine.

-Yours?

You offer yours in
place of the child?

-You take the souls of children.

Why not take mine?

-Ah, in return for which
you want, um-- let me see.

D-d-don't tell me.

Yyala!

-I love Yyala.

-And you can't
have her, can you?

Until you get rid of your soul.

Mm.

Did Yyala send
you here to plead?

-No, and I'm not
pleading with you.

I'm offering you a trade.

-Yyala is inconstant
and short-loving.

She will leave you and
you will have no soul

and you will have no love.

-No.

No, sh-she won't.

She won't leave me.

-Ah yes, but if--
if she does, do

you promise to
return here to me?

Hm?

Come.

Come.

Come with me, while
I consider it.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

You understand the terms?

-Just get it over with.

-Afterwards, you
can never return

to your world, your people.

-I don't care about that.

All I want is Yyala.

-Oh.

And if Yyala leaves you, you
must return here to be with me.

Agreed?

Agreed?

-Yes!

Take my soul, damn you!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAMING]

-Flame burn as his spirit burns.

[SCREAMING]

[SOBBING]

My every wish he
moves to fulfill.

-Oh my god!

[SCREAMING]

ALOTTA: On the eve of
the next full moon,

he will return here
on the Blood Sabbath.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-I'm free!

I'm free!

I'm free!

You can love me now.

Free!

Yyala!

You can love me, Yyala.

Nothing stands between us.

Yyala!

I'm free, Yyala!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SQUEAL]

[LAUGHTER]

Ahh.

Ohh.

ALOTTA (VOICEOVER):
Remember, David--

on the eve of the
next full moon.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAM]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAM]

ALOTTA: David, come here.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAM]

-Yyala.

-Oh!

David-- Ah!

No!

No!

Ah!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Lonzo.

Lonzo!

-Yyala?

-Lonzo, David-- he came
into the cave with,

with blood all over him.

Sacrificial blood.

-Well, what did you expect?

-I don't know.

Not this.

Not this change in him.

-I tried to keep them away
from you, from the lake,

but he was obsessed.

-And I tried to stay
away from him too.

-You didn't try hard enough.

-I couldn't help myself, Lonzo.

I was drawn to him.

-You were just indulging
yourself at his expense.

-I warned him of the
barrier between us

and that he should leave.

-You told him of
the barrier so he

could find a way to break it.

-I didn't know it
would come to this.

-You didn't want to know.

You didn't care.

You were only amusing yourself.

-No, Lonzo, I love him.

I truly love him.

-Then leave him.

Let him go, so he can get out
from under the evil influence

of Alotta.

Let him go, Yyala,
before it is too late.

-She's left you, David.

I told you she would.

-No, she didn't leave me.

I'll find her.

-I've seen her.

-You know where she is?

Tell me!

Alotta, please, you must
tell me where she is.

[LAUGHTER]

Where is she?

-Do something for me and
I'll tell you where she is.

-Anything.

-Anything?

-Anything.

[LAUGHTER]

-That's your task.

Bring me his head on a platter
and I'll give you Yyala.

-I can't.

I can't do it.

[LAUGHTER]

-Not even for Yyala?

[CHUCKLING]

-David?

David?

[GIGGLING]

-No, not this-- no,
get away from me.

David!

[CACKLING]

Stop it!

Leave me alone, please!

David!

No!

David!

-You've lost him, Yyala.

-What have you done to him?

-Oh, David gave
his soul for you.

He's drunk the blood
of our sacrifice.

Soon, he'll be one of us.

-No.

No, I won't let that happen.

-Oh?

And how do you
propose to stop it?

-I'll fight you, Alotta.

I'll fight you with
everything I have.

-I control David now.

He will do my bidding,
exactly what I want.

Only in death can
David be free of me.

Even now, as we talk, he
is sealing his own fate.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Murderer.

Murderer!

-No!

-Murderer!

-I'm no murderer.

-Murderer.

-Yyala did it.

I tell you, Yyala did it.

She did it because of David.

-You lie.

Where are they?

What have you done to them?

-It's them.

They're together.

-No.

No, it is you who
have done this.

-Yyala.

It's Yyala's fault.

-Yyala!

-Yyala.

You came back.

-Yes.

-You don't have to
be afraid of me.

-I'm not-- anymore.

Mm.

-Don't ever leave me.

-I won't.

-You might, when you
find out what I've done.

-Whatever it is, it isn't
your fault-- not really.

-So many things have happened
I, I don't understand.

-Not now, David.

Not now, my love.

Here, drink this.

-Run, Yyala!

[SCREAM]

[GROAN]

-(DISTRAUGHT) Lonzo.

-Oh god.

[SOBBING]

-It's going to be
all right, David.

-He tried to kill me.

-He was after me,
and he was right.

I'm to blame.

I'm to blame for everything.

Forgive me.

Forgive me, David.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

-Yyala, I love you.

[SOBBING]

[BELL RINGING]

ALOTTA (VOICEOVER): If
Yyala leaves you, David,

you must return here, to me.

-I kept my part of the bargain.

Why couldn't you keep yours?

Why?

Samara?

Why are you all hiding from me?

DAVID: Lonzo is dead.

-And what of Yyala?

-Gone.

-Oh.

Oh, David.

So Yyala's gone and you've
come back to me as agreed.

Come.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[GASP]

Oh, damn you!

Oh, you're not rid
of me yet, David.

I lay on you my last
curse-- dying curse.

I call forth your own
people to kill you!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

ALOTTA (VOICEOVER): I
call forth your own people

to come and kill you!

[EXPLOSIONS]

-Elephant Spotter Two
to Forward Air Control.

Repeat, Elephant Spotter
Two to Forward Air Control.

Change your heading, damn you!

Change your heading!

You're bombing your own people!

Repeat, you are bombing
your own people!

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SCREAM]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC - CHUCK COWAN, "TITLE
SONG"]

[BELL RINGING]