Doctor Dracula

Who's there?

- That was great. - Yeah, let's put it in tonight.

Yeah, just leave the rocks out of the suitcases tonight, uh?

- Oh, I'll see yqu later in my dressing rqom. - Okay.

- Miss fontaine. - Yes?

- Telegram. - Thank you.

Judith's voice: "Joanie fontaine still reported as missing.

Sergeant Martin, missing persons bureau."

Do you think you could remember to find your way back, miss fontaine?

I'm afraid I lost you on the second turn.

Have a seat.

I didn't ask you that question to be funny,

but if you think our few corridors are complicated,

wait till you start roaming the back streets of venice.

I've got to find my sister, sergeant Martin.

You know, joanie and I were both orphaned for quite some time

and I'm the only one she's got.

I got the iivipression when we first met

that you're just not the kind to sit around

and wait for things to happen.

That's quite true.

Let me tell you something, miss fontaine--

in this case that's the best thing you can do.

Sit around and just wait.

Here.

Your kid sister chose to live with a bunch of hippies out near the beach.

Now it seems that living near the water

brings out the best and the worst in us.

There's an amusement park just east of the pier.

It's a hang-out for pushers and white-slavery operators.

Oh yeah, we've still got them around.

And you'd be surprised just how many young girls

come out here just hoping to get involved in all this kind of stuff.

Murder,

rape

and beatings.

Now maybe you ask yourself a question--

why do all these terrible things have to happen?

Well, took me 21 years of my 22 on this business

to get the answer, and at last I have it.

What is the answer?

These people want these things to happen.

Does that sound too simple? Well, not really.

It's the most complicated thing in the world.

Nobody but nobody knows anything

about the subconscious, miss fontaine--

not even ourselves.

Yeah, it's a dark dark world, miss fontaine.

Barker: See Dr. duryea's creature emporium.

It's the greatest living thing in the whole wide world.

Only 50¢ a person--

50¢ for the ladies, 50¢ for the men.

Dr. duryea's creature eiviporium" living creatures.

See how his head is chopped off.

See the blood squirting right out before your very eyes.

When you see this creature, you will be so stunned

that you won't know that you're alive.

Hey, where are we going?

This way. Come right inside.

Hey!

You gotta have a ticket to go in here.

All right. We wanna buyaticket.

"We wanna buy a ticket." "We wanna buy a ticket."

"We wanna buya ticket."

One dollar.

Ha ha.

See what I do with it?

I eat it!

Let's go.

Barker: Come right in.

Do not be afraid.

This is Dr. duryea's creature emporium,

before you, you will see sights

that you will not believe,

but I assure you that each and every one of them

is true and has happened many times in history.

But I don't even see anything.

Barker:You see,

you must open your eyes to see things.

There's more to come.

It is only an illusion, children.

It's all right.

Of course you are frightened because this is all unknown for you.

The greatest mysteries in the world are not mysteries at all

unless we take time to become familiar with them.

He's really a gentle fellow.

But put that mask on him

and the whole world will gladly turn against him.

I have this exhibit unattended for several reasons.

I believe we all should experience life

with a natural spontaneity.

And this can only happen if there are no restraints.

Do you agree?

The romans had their circus Maximus

seating over 200,000,

but their spectacles were no more bizarre

than that which I can conjure up for you right here.

Now look here.

Now look there.

- Man, that sure looks real. - True-- all illusions look real

or they wouldn't be illusions, would they?

Man, that place would give anybody the creeps.

Poor baby, you're afraid of everything.

Yeah.

Come on, let's get ready for the big protest tonight.

What are we protesting tonight?

I don't know but I'll bet it's fun.

Well, groton, i see you've arranged

the tables correctly this time.

What about the temperature?

Have you tested it to the exact degree?

You heard them up there, groton.

They want to see an illusion.

They do not realize that reality itself

is the grandest illusion of all

and that human blood is the essence

from which future illusions may be created.

But the secret is not to have the blood at rest.

No, the circulatory system

must experience a traumatic shock--

one that is inconceivable to the human mind.

The idea of trauma is nota new one.

But I am sure

I am the first such experimenter

to incorporate the horror of an actual decapitation

with the later rejuvenation of a human body.

My, it's remarkable...

A few scars-

scars that with time will dissolve away--

nothing more.

Had she not be drugged into a surface somnolence,

she could walk away from us now

as though nothing had happened on that fateful night.

But of course we cannot allow that to happen.

No, not until enough of the serum has been made and tested.

Oh, she's a lucky young woman, groton.

We have desperate need of her blood.

She has survived decapitation

and is manufacturing the right type of vital fluid for us.

We are not butchers, groton.

We don't have this young lady here

to merely drain her body and cast her aside.

No.

We are scientists

and we must have others to experiment with.

You understand that, groton?

And you also understand

what must happen to you once again?

Now, groton, on with the work we must continue tonight.

I have my tools, groton. You have yours.

Don't wander away from the pier.

We all wait for you, groton.

Walk silent

and walk well.

Dr. duryea, i presume.

I hope your busy schedule will allow me

a brief visit with you.

What do you want?

It's late and my exhibit is closed.

And how did you get in here anyway?

All that is unimportant, doctor.

You see, i know your secret.

There are ways we can help each other.

All right.

Come into the light and we'll talk?

Pleasant surroundings.

That sounds like peculiar conversation fora man

who is the last living member of the family of Frankenstein,

is it not, Dr. duryea?

Or should I say Frankenstein?

I am too old

and too sick

to be interested or surprised by anything.

But when a man comes into my house

and casts no reflection on my mirror

and upon his hand wears the unholy crest of Dracula...

There is no scientific answer

to anything.

Now what is on your mind,

count Dracula?

Dr. Frankenstein,

I know you were raised by the duryea family.

Before your crippling accident

you were discredited by members of the medical institute

because of your real family's background--

cut shorta rather brilliant career--

but your mind and surgeon's skill

were meant to fulfill the Frankenstein dream

and to infuse life into that artificially-created man,

the likes of which civilization will never forget.

You cannot escape your destiny,

just as I cannot escape mine.

What you say is very true.

Very true.

If only I had away to get the power I should have,

I'd show those fools out there

who think of me only as a carnival freak an d--

and get your revenge on drs. Beaumont, stedmen and marky

who ruined your career and caused the accidental fire

which crippled you as you are now.