Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - full transcript
Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Wismar where Jonathan lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off of men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Wismar, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the curse of not being able to get old and die.
Lucy.
Calm down.
I... I see something
horrible.
I'm afraid.
you're just having another nightmare.
Jonathan. This eating on the run
isn't good for you.
It worries me.
Good morning.
Ah, Harker, please come here.
Yes, Mr. Renfield.
I have a task for you.
Something I don't dare
trust to anyone else.
You're very kind, Mr. Renfield.
Count Dracula.
Sent me a letter
from Transylvania.
He wants to buy
a house here.
Of course, it's a
enormous trip to see him.
Where is that?
Over the Carpathian
mountains, isn't it?
Yes.
but, on the other hand,
there will be a large commission.
Oh, then I could get a
nicer house for Lucy.
She deserves a finer setting.
Yes.
Well, this won't be easy.
Make take you a long time.
Cost you a lot of sweat...
and possibly also...
a bit of blood.
It'll be good to get out
of the city for a while...
get away from these canals.
Which go nowhere
but back on themselves.
Transylvania.
There, beyond the forest.
A wonderful place. A little
gloomy, but very exciting.
The Count is just looking
for a beautiful old house.
I've felt about a big one
near your place.
But it's almost in ruins
been abandoned for years.
I'm sure he can make it
into something cozy
Anyway, we'll offer it.. to him.
You'll leave right now.
Right now?
Today?
Certainly. I've got all the papers here.
we mustn't make him wait.
All right then.
If it has to be today..
it has to be.
I'm ready.
Today?
Right away?
Yes, to a castle in the Carpathians.
It's a strange area where
there are still a few wolves
and people believe in ghosts.
Jonathan, I don't want you to go.
- I have this awful feeling.
- That's ridiculous.
You'll be in danger.
Don't go.
Wolves, robbers and ghosts.
You musn't leave like this,
I cannot permit it.
Let's at least spend some
time for us by the see.
We used to enjoy it so much.
Lucy.
I don't know.
Sometimes I'm so blind.
Jonathan..
I have to say this.
Even if you think it's foolish...
coming from a feeble
unprotected heart.
Yes?
I feel a dark force.
An inner.. nameless.. deadly fear.
Lucy is the dearest thing
in the world to me...
take care of her.
Of course.
- Mina, treat her as a sister.
- Yes.
Innkeeper! Quick, my supper.
I have to go to the castle tonight.
Which one?
Count Dracula's.
Must you go there?
Really?
Yes. Why?
At midnight.. all sorts of
evil spirits are set loose.
People disappear
without a trace.
Oh, come on, that's
all superstition.
You will not find a coach
which will take you there
And your own horse needs
care for several days.
I'll find another horse.
Don't go there, sir.
The gypsies...
some of them have been
on the other side...
they know.
He says you shouldn't
go there, young man.
He says there's a great chasm,
it swallows the unwary.
Then comes towering crags.
He says..
that the pass..
the Borgo pass...
where the light
suddenly divides and...
there he says.. the land rises upwards...
towards.. towards.. heaven...
and then falls to..
to no one knows where.
The gypsies here been saying..
that no such castle exists...
except maybe in the
imagination of man.
Just a ruin.
They say.. a ghost castle.
A traveler who enters into the
land of phantoms is lost...
and can never return.
For me?
Vampires...
lets see...
Of vampires and bloodsuckers.
Of corpses which devour their own flesh.
Of incubuses and succubuses.
Of the living dead who follow
strangers in the night..
of werewolves, of milking of axes..
that?s a good one...
milking and axes is blood.
makes men's bodies to quake
and their teeth to shatter in their heads.
Transylvania... Nosferatu,
beyond dead...
to curse will last
until the end of time.
The curse of the vampire Nosferatu.
Coachman, could you take
me to the Borgo pass?
I'll pay you well.
There is no road to the Borgo pass.
But it's right there.
I need your coach.
I haven't got a coach.
Could I have at least
one of your horses.
I'm willing to pay you
double the price.
Sorry, sir.
Can't you not see?
I haven't any horses.
Well...
I'll have to walk.
Count Dracula?
Jonathan Harker.
You've been expected
and welcome to my castle.
Thank you.
Come in.
The night is cold and you
must be tired and hungry.
These are the papers.
The fully document contains
the ground plane of the house
which I'm sure you'd like to see.
Yes, yes.
Please, help yourself.
Please...
I'm afraid
you must sup alone.
It's nearly midnight...
and I partake of
nothing at this hour.
Unfortunately, the servants
are not at our disposal.
So you allow me...
to see to your comfort.
Listen.
Listen.
The Children of the
Night make their music.
Ah, young man...
you're like the villagers...
who cannot place themselves
in the soul of the hunter.
The knife is old and
could be dirty.
It could give you
blood poisoning.
Please...
let me do it.
It's the oldest
remedy in the world.
Oh, forget it. It's hardly worth
mentioning. Just a little cut.
You know...
it's only for the best.
Let's sit up for a while.
It's still many
hours before dawn.
And during the daytime
I am always away.
Lucy, my love...
there is no postal
service from here...
but I shall write to the diary,
preserving all my thoughts
and feelings for you.
Last night after a tiresome journey,
I finally reached my destination...
the castle of Count Dracula.
I had a bad dream,
but I hope it will pass.
This castle is so strange.
At times I wonder if it
isn't part of that dream.
Everything about it
looks so unreal.
I don't attach importance
to sunshine anymore....
or to glittering fountains,
which youth is so fond of.
I love the darkness
and the shadows.
Where I can be alone
with my thoughts.
I am the descendent
of an old family.
Time is an abyss,
profound as a thousand nights.
Centuries come and go...
to be unable to grow
old is terrible.
That is not the worst. There are
things more horrible than that.
Can you imagine
enduring centuries...
experiencing each day
the same futil things?
I'm glad you found such a
large old house for me.
Very near to your
lodging, I understand.
Yes, it's just around the corner.
May I have a look at the contract?
What?... What a lovely throat.
It's my wife, Lucy.
Your hand is so cold.
The document... the contract for the
house, I must sign it immediately.
Yes, but we haven't
settled a price.
It's a small matter
between gentlemen...
I accept whatever
you find is just.
Here.
How long did it take you
to get here from Wismar?
Four weeks.
I...
it takes a while to travel on land.
From the seed of Belial
is the vampire born.
He who feeds on the
blood of mankind...
who, unredeemed, taketh his
refuge in caves, tombs...
coffins filled with the
unblessed soil of cemeteries...
wherein the black death
has reaped its harvest...
the plague.
Jonathan!
She has a sudden fever.
Call me at once if you
think it is necessary...
but I don't think it is
really that serious.
Oh, God, he must be
going to Wismar.
Lucy!
Lucy's in danger.
I've got to get out of here.
It's strange...
but the papers are all in order.
Let me see them...
From Varna to Wismar.
Garden soil for
botanical experiments.
Open one of them.
I want to make sure.
This one.
Mother Superior...
Mother Superior...
stop the black coffins.
The patient we got
yesterday is having a fit.
- Which one?
- The one who bit the cow.
The one in solitary.
I'll come.
Blood is life.
Blood is life.
Has he done
this often before?
Yes, a few hours ago,
exactly the same thing,
instead of taking food
he tries to eat flies.
Blood is life.
Give them to me.
Let go!
Help!
Quiet...
I hear the reskin of sails
No letter again.
But, Lucy...
you mustn't worry
Getting mail over the
Carpathians is very dificult.
Something has
happened to Jonathan.
I know it.
Lucy, take comfort,
the Lord will hear our prayers.
God is so far from us
in the our of distress.
The young gentleman is quite ill,
he must not travel yet.
The coffins...
I must get to Wismar
before the coffins.
The young gentleman should wait at
least until the doctor promised tomorrow.
Lucy is in danger,
I have to save her.
The coffins.
Evil is on the way.
The ship seems
burden with a curse.
Since we left the Caspian see,
one after another.
Four Mariners
with the second mate.
Have taken them and gone
with their rewards.
One sailor and our cook have
disappeared without a trace.
A rumor circulated that there
was a stranger onboard
it terrified all.
We searched but there
was nothing but the rats.
We threw to our course.
Northwest at 30 degrees.
The wind is steady.
12 knots this day.
Mr. Renfield...
you ordered my husband
to Transylvania...
for weeks now I haven't
read word from him.
And I'm sorry worried...
I'm ready to sail out
to Transylvania myself
Stay here. If the master comes.
Who is coming?
Tell us all.
The master of the Rats.
Some consecrated and
400 thousand strong.
We should leave now.
Plague.
In Transylvania in the Black Sea
port of Varna the plague has appeared.
The Master has arrived.
The Master has arrived.
Hey, put a plank across.
The ship must be fully checked.
Untie him.
Not a soul on board.
Very little freight.
But the hole is teaming with rats.
Here's the log.
It is truly a mystery.
A chance gentlemen, the
ship's log may hold a clue to it.
Varna, June 6. Five hands,
two mates, a cook and myself,
direction, the Dardanelles.
Course westward.
Today the third man
died of fever.
Last night, the mate who had the
watch disappeared without a trace.
June 20th. Course northward see high
making 40 knots towards Biscaya.
Fear grows daily
among the men.
Only the first mate
and I remain alive.
Rats are everywhere.
Could it be the plague?
The Plague.
Go home quietly, please.
Shut the doors and windows.
Gentlemen.
Gracious lady, we're
delivering this man.
He seems to belong
to this house.
Lucy!
Jonathan!
Who is this woman?
Lets bring him in.
It must be a very
severe brain fever.
The sun is hurting me.
Dr. Van Helsing. Do you think it is
possible that we're so insane...
that one day we will all wake
and find ourselves in straight-jackets?
You must excuse
my utter entrance...
I am Count Dracula.
I know of you from
Jonathan's diary.
Since he has been
with you he's ruined
- He will not die.
- Yes he will...
Death is
overwellming.
Eventually
we're all his.
Stars's been
reeling confusion.
Time passes
in blindness.
Rivers flow without
knowing their course.
Only death is
cruelly sure.
Dying is cruelty against
the unsuspecting.
But death is
not everything.
Is more cruel not
to be able to die.
I wish I could partake
of the love...
which is between
you and Jonathan.
Nothing in this world.
Not even God can touch that.
And it will
not change.
Even if Jonathan never
recognizes me again.
I could change everything...
Will you come to me...
and be my ally.
Be the salvation
for your husband...
and to me.
The absence of love...
is the most abject pain.
Salvation comes
from ourselves alone.
And you may rest assured
even the unthinkable
will not deter me...
Good night.
Stop!
Help! Help!
Nosferatu, the undead.
He who drinketh
blood of his victims,
and turns them as well into
phantoms of the night.
He is as a shadow,
and have no reflection.
At night he penetrates
through walls and doors.
In shape of bat he wafts into
the chambers of the sleeping.
In shape of black wolf he
hunts down those who flee.
Abandon all hope,
he who he does approach.
And yet do the vampire,
being an unnatural being...
he must obey some natural laws.
The sign of the cross bans him.
The consecrated host...
can bar his retreat.
Ensure a woman pure of heart...
to make him forget
the cry of the cock...
the first light of day
will destroy him.
What does the Master command?
Go north...
to Riga.
The army of rats and the
Black Death will beseech you.
Oh... Thy will be done.
Amen!, Amen!.
The plague! The plague!
What are you doing here?
I must go to
the town council.
It's dissolved.
It exists no more.
Then, I have to see the mayor.
He's dead.
Go as quickly as you can.
I know the reason
for all this evil!
I know the reason
for all this!
Why don't you listen?!
I know the reason.
But my child. These are all
figments of your imagination.
You have read
Jonathan's diary.
You've seen what has
happened to him.
It's getting worse
here every day.
The plague.
The rats.
And this book about the vampire.
This book explains it.
We live in a most enlightened era,
superstitions such as you mention...
have been refuted by science.
I am absolutly certain this exists.
I believe what I see
with my own eyes.
Faith... Faith...
Faith, Dr. Van Helsing.
Faith.
Faith is the amazing
faculty of men...
which enables us to
believe things...
which we know to be untrue.
You must come with me and help
me to crush this... this monster.
Coffins have come by
boat from the Black Sea.
We can find where they're hidden
then we can destroy them.
We can search for them tonight.
My child, you need some
rest and relaxation.
The affair with your husband
has completely worn you out.
No, Dr. Van Helsing. Tonight.
This has to be
studied first, scientifically.
No! Tonight!
We mustn't lose a moment.
Even the farmer knows my child, that
everything has a proper time and sequence.
He doesn't dig up the wheat
to make sure it is growing.
Only children playing at being
farmers do something like that.
I see I have to do this alone!
Well, then.
Mother Superior, my medicine.
My lady, how did I come
to make your acquaintance?
God, forgive me for what I do.
Join us, please.
It's our last supper.
We've all caught the plague, You'll
have to enjoy each day is left.
Madam Lucy!
Something terrible has happened!.
Are you alright?.
You have to come to the Schraders.
Calm down, Lucy...
You can come closer.
It is certainly not the plague.
My God!
What has happened?
We don't know exactly.
Except this morning
Shana found Mina dead.
We took'm to hospital.
We still have no explanation.
The causes will be gone into,
with scientific thoroughness.
Leaving aside superstition
and prejudice.
The plague, we can most
certainly rule that out.
I know, now, what I have to do.
The consecrated host
bans the vampire.
Ensure a woman pure of heart...
to make him forget
the cry of the cock...
the first light of day
will destroy him.
Now I know her...
oh God if I had only
listened to her before.
A stake and a hammer quickly.
I have to dispatch
this demon forever.
Stop.
Don't do it!
Help.
Van Helsing!
Get him!
Yes, him!
Seize him!
That man has
murdered the Count!
Have you done that?
With that stake?
Yes.
Yes... But there was some
urgent reason for doing it.
That's for the court to decide.
You're under arrest,
Dr. Van Helsing.
Arrest this man.
Arrest him?
You're asking me to arrest him?
Yes!
I've never arrested.
Then get the police.
But they are gone.
Then take him to prison.
There's no one there
to guard him anymore.
Then you must arrest him yourself!
After all you're
a town employee.
And how should I do it?.
I need arms for it.
- Go on!, get on with it.
- I can't, I'm unarmed.
Nevertheless, you
to arrest this man!
Well.. where will you take me, then?
I wonder myself,
to the prison I think.
What are you
doing standing there?
Fetch a broom, can't you see,
everything here is full of dust.
Seal the bedroom for
official investigation.
And bring me my horse.
I have much to do.
Now!
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Calm down.
I... I see something
horrible.
I'm afraid.
you're just having another nightmare.
Jonathan. This eating on the run
isn't good for you.
It worries me.
Good morning.
Ah, Harker, please come here.
Yes, Mr. Renfield.
I have a task for you.
Something I don't dare
trust to anyone else.
You're very kind, Mr. Renfield.
Count Dracula.
Sent me a letter
from Transylvania.
He wants to buy
a house here.
Of course, it's a
enormous trip to see him.
Where is that?
Over the Carpathian
mountains, isn't it?
Yes.
but, on the other hand,
there will be a large commission.
Oh, then I could get a
nicer house for Lucy.
She deserves a finer setting.
Yes.
Well, this won't be easy.
Make take you a long time.
Cost you a lot of sweat...
and possibly also...
a bit of blood.
It'll be good to get out
of the city for a while...
get away from these canals.
Which go nowhere
but back on themselves.
Transylvania.
There, beyond the forest.
A wonderful place. A little
gloomy, but very exciting.
The Count is just looking
for a beautiful old house.
I've felt about a big one
near your place.
But it's almost in ruins
been abandoned for years.
I'm sure he can make it
into something cozy
Anyway, we'll offer it.. to him.
You'll leave right now.
Right now?
Today?
Certainly. I've got all the papers here.
we mustn't make him wait.
All right then.
If it has to be today..
it has to be.
I'm ready.
Today?
Right away?
Yes, to a castle in the Carpathians.
It's a strange area where
there are still a few wolves
and people believe in ghosts.
Jonathan, I don't want you to go.
- I have this awful feeling.
- That's ridiculous.
You'll be in danger.
Don't go.
Wolves, robbers and ghosts.
You musn't leave like this,
I cannot permit it.
Let's at least spend some
time for us by the see.
We used to enjoy it so much.
Lucy.
I don't know.
Sometimes I'm so blind.
Jonathan..
I have to say this.
Even if you think it's foolish...
coming from a feeble
unprotected heart.
Yes?
I feel a dark force.
An inner.. nameless.. deadly fear.
Lucy is the dearest thing
in the world to me...
take care of her.
Of course.
- Mina, treat her as a sister.
- Yes.
Innkeeper! Quick, my supper.
I have to go to the castle tonight.
Which one?
Count Dracula's.
Must you go there?
Really?
Yes. Why?
At midnight.. all sorts of
evil spirits are set loose.
People disappear
without a trace.
Oh, come on, that's
all superstition.
You will not find a coach
which will take you there
And your own horse needs
care for several days.
I'll find another horse.
Don't go there, sir.
The gypsies...
some of them have been
on the other side...
they know.
He says you shouldn't
go there, young man.
He says there's a great chasm,
it swallows the unwary.
Then comes towering crags.
He says..
that the pass..
the Borgo pass...
where the light
suddenly divides and...
there he says.. the land rises upwards...
towards.. towards.. heaven...
and then falls to..
to no one knows where.
The gypsies here been saying..
that no such castle exists...
except maybe in the
imagination of man.
Just a ruin.
They say.. a ghost castle.
A traveler who enters into the
land of phantoms is lost...
and can never return.
For me?
Vampires...
lets see...
Of vampires and bloodsuckers.
Of corpses which devour their own flesh.
Of incubuses and succubuses.
Of the living dead who follow
strangers in the night..
of werewolves, of milking of axes..
that?s a good one...
milking and axes is blood.
makes men's bodies to quake
and their teeth to shatter in their heads.
Transylvania... Nosferatu,
beyond dead...
to curse will last
until the end of time.
The curse of the vampire Nosferatu.
Coachman, could you take
me to the Borgo pass?
I'll pay you well.
There is no road to the Borgo pass.
But it's right there.
I need your coach.
I haven't got a coach.
Could I have at least
one of your horses.
I'm willing to pay you
double the price.
Sorry, sir.
Can't you not see?
I haven't any horses.
Well...
I'll have to walk.
Count Dracula?
Jonathan Harker.
You've been expected
and welcome to my castle.
Thank you.
Come in.
The night is cold and you
must be tired and hungry.
These are the papers.
The fully document contains
the ground plane of the house
which I'm sure you'd like to see.
Yes, yes.
Please, help yourself.
Please...
I'm afraid
you must sup alone.
It's nearly midnight...
and I partake of
nothing at this hour.
Unfortunately, the servants
are not at our disposal.
So you allow me...
to see to your comfort.
Listen.
Listen.
The Children of the
Night make their music.
Ah, young man...
you're like the villagers...
who cannot place themselves
in the soul of the hunter.
The knife is old and
could be dirty.
It could give you
blood poisoning.
Please...
let me do it.
It's the oldest
remedy in the world.
Oh, forget it. It's hardly worth
mentioning. Just a little cut.
You know...
it's only for the best.
Let's sit up for a while.
It's still many
hours before dawn.
And during the daytime
I am always away.
Lucy, my love...
there is no postal
service from here...
but I shall write to the diary,
preserving all my thoughts
and feelings for you.
Last night after a tiresome journey,
I finally reached my destination...
the castle of Count Dracula.
I had a bad dream,
but I hope it will pass.
This castle is so strange.
At times I wonder if it
isn't part of that dream.
Everything about it
looks so unreal.
I don't attach importance
to sunshine anymore....
or to glittering fountains,
which youth is so fond of.
I love the darkness
and the shadows.
Where I can be alone
with my thoughts.
I am the descendent
of an old family.
Time is an abyss,
profound as a thousand nights.
Centuries come and go...
to be unable to grow
old is terrible.
That is not the worst. There are
things more horrible than that.
Can you imagine
enduring centuries...
experiencing each day
the same futil things?
I'm glad you found such a
large old house for me.
Very near to your
lodging, I understand.
Yes, it's just around the corner.
May I have a look at the contract?
What?... What a lovely throat.
It's my wife, Lucy.
Your hand is so cold.
The document... the contract for the
house, I must sign it immediately.
Yes, but we haven't
settled a price.
It's a small matter
between gentlemen...
I accept whatever
you find is just.
Here.
How long did it take you
to get here from Wismar?
Four weeks.
I...
it takes a while to travel on land.
From the seed of Belial
is the vampire born.
He who feeds on the
blood of mankind...
who, unredeemed, taketh his
refuge in caves, tombs...
coffins filled with the
unblessed soil of cemeteries...
wherein the black death
has reaped its harvest...
the plague.
Jonathan!
She has a sudden fever.
Call me at once if you
think it is necessary...
but I don't think it is
really that serious.
Oh, God, he must be
going to Wismar.
Lucy!
Lucy's in danger.
I've got to get out of here.
It's strange...
but the papers are all in order.
Let me see them...
From Varna to Wismar.
Garden soil for
botanical experiments.
Open one of them.
I want to make sure.
This one.
Mother Superior...
Mother Superior...
stop the black coffins.
The patient we got
yesterday is having a fit.
- Which one?
- The one who bit the cow.
The one in solitary.
I'll come.
Blood is life.
Blood is life.
Has he done
this often before?
Yes, a few hours ago,
exactly the same thing,
instead of taking food
he tries to eat flies.
Blood is life.
Give them to me.
Let go!
Help!
Quiet...
I hear the reskin of sails
No letter again.
But, Lucy...
you mustn't worry
Getting mail over the
Carpathians is very dificult.
Something has
happened to Jonathan.
I know it.
Lucy, take comfort,
the Lord will hear our prayers.
God is so far from us
in the our of distress.
The young gentleman is quite ill,
he must not travel yet.
The coffins...
I must get to Wismar
before the coffins.
The young gentleman should wait at
least until the doctor promised tomorrow.
Lucy is in danger,
I have to save her.
The coffins.
Evil is on the way.
The ship seems
burden with a curse.
Since we left the Caspian see,
one after another.
Four Mariners
with the second mate.
Have taken them and gone
with their rewards.
One sailor and our cook have
disappeared without a trace.
A rumor circulated that there
was a stranger onboard
it terrified all.
We searched but there
was nothing but the rats.
We threw to our course.
Northwest at 30 degrees.
The wind is steady.
12 knots this day.
Mr. Renfield...
you ordered my husband
to Transylvania...
for weeks now I haven't
read word from him.
And I'm sorry worried...
I'm ready to sail out
to Transylvania myself
Stay here. If the master comes.
Who is coming?
Tell us all.
The master of the Rats.
Some consecrated and
400 thousand strong.
We should leave now.
Plague.
In Transylvania in the Black Sea
port of Varna the plague has appeared.
The Master has arrived.
The Master has arrived.
Hey, put a plank across.
The ship must be fully checked.
Untie him.
Not a soul on board.
Very little freight.
But the hole is teaming with rats.
Here's the log.
It is truly a mystery.
A chance gentlemen, the
ship's log may hold a clue to it.
Varna, June 6. Five hands,
two mates, a cook and myself,
direction, the Dardanelles.
Course westward.
Today the third man
died of fever.
Last night, the mate who had the
watch disappeared without a trace.
June 20th. Course northward see high
making 40 knots towards Biscaya.
Fear grows daily
among the men.
Only the first mate
and I remain alive.
Rats are everywhere.
Could it be the plague?
The Plague.
Go home quietly, please.
Shut the doors and windows.
Gentlemen.
Gracious lady, we're
delivering this man.
He seems to belong
to this house.
Lucy!
Jonathan!
Who is this woman?
Lets bring him in.
It must be a very
severe brain fever.
The sun is hurting me.
Dr. Van Helsing. Do you think it is
possible that we're so insane...
that one day we will all wake
and find ourselves in straight-jackets?
You must excuse
my utter entrance...
I am Count Dracula.
I know of you from
Jonathan's diary.
Since he has been
with you he's ruined
- He will not die.
- Yes he will...
Death is
overwellming.
Eventually
we're all his.
Stars's been
reeling confusion.
Time passes
in blindness.
Rivers flow without
knowing their course.
Only death is
cruelly sure.
Dying is cruelty against
the unsuspecting.
But death is
not everything.
Is more cruel not
to be able to die.
I wish I could partake
of the love...
which is between
you and Jonathan.
Nothing in this world.
Not even God can touch that.
And it will
not change.
Even if Jonathan never
recognizes me again.
I could change everything...
Will you come to me...
and be my ally.
Be the salvation
for your husband...
and to me.
The absence of love...
is the most abject pain.
Salvation comes
from ourselves alone.
And you may rest assured
even the unthinkable
will not deter me...
Good night.
Stop!
Help! Help!
Nosferatu, the undead.
He who drinketh
blood of his victims,
and turns them as well into
phantoms of the night.
He is as a shadow,
and have no reflection.
At night he penetrates
through walls and doors.
In shape of bat he wafts into
the chambers of the sleeping.
In shape of black wolf he
hunts down those who flee.
Abandon all hope,
he who he does approach.
And yet do the vampire,
being an unnatural being...
he must obey some natural laws.
The sign of the cross bans him.
The consecrated host...
can bar his retreat.
Ensure a woman pure of heart...
to make him forget
the cry of the cock...
the first light of day
will destroy him.
What does the Master command?
Go north...
to Riga.
The army of rats and the
Black Death will beseech you.
Oh... Thy will be done.
Amen!, Amen!.
The plague! The plague!
What are you doing here?
I must go to
the town council.
It's dissolved.
It exists no more.
Then, I have to see the mayor.
He's dead.
Go as quickly as you can.
I know the reason
for all this evil!
I know the reason
for all this!
Why don't you listen?!
I know the reason.
But my child. These are all
figments of your imagination.
You have read
Jonathan's diary.
You've seen what has
happened to him.
It's getting worse
here every day.
The plague.
The rats.
And this book about the vampire.
This book explains it.
We live in a most enlightened era,
superstitions such as you mention...
have been refuted by science.
I am absolutly certain this exists.
I believe what I see
with my own eyes.
Faith... Faith...
Faith, Dr. Van Helsing.
Faith.
Faith is the amazing
faculty of men...
which enables us to
believe things...
which we know to be untrue.
You must come with me and help
me to crush this... this monster.
Coffins have come by
boat from the Black Sea.
We can find where they're hidden
then we can destroy them.
We can search for them tonight.
My child, you need some
rest and relaxation.
The affair with your husband
has completely worn you out.
No, Dr. Van Helsing. Tonight.
This has to be
studied first, scientifically.
No! Tonight!
We mustn't lose a moment.
Even the farmer knows my child, that
everything has a proper time and sequence.
He doesn't dig up the wheat
to make sure it is growing.
Only children playing at being
farmers do something like that.
I see I have to do this alone!
Well, then.
Mother Superior, my medicine.
My lady, how did I come
to make your acquaintance?
God, forgive me for what I do.
Join us, please.
It's our last supper.
We've all caught the plague, You'll
have to enjoy each day is left.
Madam Lucy!
Something terrible has happened!.
Are you alright?.
You have to come to the Schraders.
Calm down, Lucy...
You can come closer.
It is certainly not the plague.
My God!
What has happened?
We don't know exactly.
Except this morning
Shana found Mina dead.
We took'm to hospital.
We still have no explanation.
The causes will be gone into,
with scientific thoroughness.
Leaving aside superstition
and prejudice.
The plague, we can most
certainly rule that out.
I know, now, what I have to do.
The consecrated host
bans the vampire.
Ensure a woman pure of heart...
to make him forget
the cry of the cock...
the first light of day
will destroy him.
Now I know her...
oh God if I had only
listened to her before.
A stake and a hammer quickly.
I have to dispatch
this demon forever.
Stop.
Don't do it!
Help.
Van Helsing!
Get him!
Yes, him!
Seize him!
That man has
murdered the Count!
Have you done that?
With that stake?
Yes.
Yes... But there was some
urgent reason for doing it.
That's for the court to decide.
You're under arrest,
Dr. Van Helsing.
Arrest this man.
Arrest him?
You're asking me to arrest him?
Yes!
I've never arrested.
Then get the police.
But they are gone.
Then take him to prison.
There's no one there
to guard him anymore.
Then you must arrest him yourself!
After all you're
a town employee.
And how should I do it?.
I need arms for it.
- Go on!, get on with it.
- I can't, I'm unarmed.
Nevertheless, you
to arrest this man!
Well.. where will you take me, then?
I wonder myself,
to the prison I think.
What are you
doing standing there?
Fetch a broom, can't you see,
everything here is full of dust.
Seal the bedroom for
official investigation.
And bring me my horse.
I have much to do.
Now!
Subtitles done by:
Goldrake