All language subtitles for The Shiver of the Vampires. Le frisson des vampires (1971) Eng. subs 720p

Listen, in a while I will return
to the radiant darkness of death.

But first, I want to give you
the means to save your lives...

...and even a chance to save my soul.

Later tonight,
as soon as death has taken me...

...I want you go to the cemetery.

Hurry, before it's too late.

Go to their tomb and drive
this stake into their hearts...

...so they are destroyed for ever.

Pull this stake from my heart
and kill them.

Listen, if you are too late...

...swear that you will serve them.

That way your lives
will be spared.

They need living accomplices
to supply them with victims.

Now let the light strike me down.

Do you think it's a good place
for a honeymoon?

It's a very beautiful castle,
you'll see.

I really want to see
my two cousins again.

I only saw them once or twice
when I was a little girl...

...and I have wonderful
memories of it.

They're quite strange...

...but children are always
fascinated by anything unusual.

I'd like to go, I just hope it
doesn't delay our trip to Italy.

The castle is at the end
of that lane...

...but you will find it empty.

Empty?

They both died yesterday.

You will only be able to see
their two servants.

Strange things have been
happening here...

...since they're not here
to protect us.

But...

Go up to the castle. Go on!

Isle, do you know
what I've just been told?

I hope you won't be too upset but...

- What is it?
- Your cousins are dead.

- Dead?
- Yes.

They've not long been buried.

That's strange. Are you sure?

Yes.

I can't believe it.

Hello. My cousins were expecting us.
We've just got married and...

That explains our inappropriate
dress but we had no way of knowing.

The occupants are delighted
to welcome you.

The rooms are ready,
if you'd just follow us.

What a peculiar place.

I won't be able to relax until I've
visited my cousins one last time.

I'm going to visit their tomb.

I really have to.

I feel I owe it to them.

- I'm going to go alone.
- But why?

Please.

I'm Isabelle.

Why are you praying at this tomb?

- Two men are buried here.
- I know.

They were my last relatives.

Your dress is new.

Mine was worn by my mother
when my father died.

She died not long after.

Now I'm the one
wearing the widow's veils.

Who for?

- For them.
- For them?

We were to be married...

...but I was already their bride.

Whose bride?

Who knows? Maybe both of them.

Now I am mourning both of them.

I have been twice widowed.

Antoine, let me sleep
alone tonight, please.

My cousins' deaths
have really upset me.

Please understand, Antoine.
Don't be mad with me. Good night.

Good night.

Who are you?

I am Isolde.

You are Isle.

I am your friend.

I have some things to tell you,
to explain to you, to show you.

This is where the living make
a religion of respecting the dead.

This is where the dead make a
religion of preserving their lives.

Why, Master?

It has to be done.

The terrible curse which is ours
must not be passed on.

Couldn't she live, Master?

She could,
but only as the dead live.

She would have to share
our eternity.

She should never have entered
this sinister vault.

This is the price we pay
for our safety.

Our evil should not be propagated,
we would be discovered.

Go and see
if our hosts are resting.

What will happen to you
now you are here alone?

Loneliness does not trouble us
when we are near our masters.

What about now they've left?

They haven't left us, they
haven't left anything or anyone.

The way you remember them
is touching...

...but the fact is,
we will never see them again and...

We will see them once
their work is finished.

In the library.

What do you mean?

What library?

I really don't know what's going on.

This is the time of day
they usually work.

They will come to see you
when they are finished.

So, they're alive?

But we were told they were dead.
Isle went to their tomb and now...

They could at least meet us.

What about Isabelle?
She thinks they're dead too.

That's what people
in the village are saying.

You shouldn't pay
attention to rumors.

Of course,
it was them I saw last night.

- You saw them last night?
- Don't you remember?

I was asleep.

Listen, you weren't in your room so
I went looking for you in the park.

I saw two men in a chapel.

The two servants were there.

Some sort of ceremony was being
carried out, a human sacrifice.

The two men were covered in blood.

I was afraid for you, I hurried back
but you were sound asleep.

I thought I was hallucinating.

Now, if the lords are alive,
I wonder...

I'm going to try to find them.

They work during the day,
in their library.

What happened?

Where were you?

I went to look in the library.

Are they the men you saw?

Yes. That's them.

So this is our dear cousin.

And our latest cousin.

Please excuse our late arrival.

Oh, but it's little Isle...

...so different now.

And this must be Antoine.

My dear Antoine,
what happened to you?

An unfortunate accident.

Old castles are dangerous.

Full of traps and mysteries,
you have to be very careful.

Very careful.

We were surprised
to hear of your deaths.

Your reappearance
is even more surprising.

We never disappeared.

That's just a story, a joke.

Made up by the locals.

It's unbelievable.
What kind of life do you lead?

These days everything
is unbelievable, my friend.

We lead the life we have to live.

What about you,
did you choose your life?

Yes. In any case,
mine doesn't seem so strange.

Appearances are deceptive.
What do you do?

I am an electronics engineer.

Is it unbelievable to substitute
an electronic brain for a man's?

It's more than unbelievable,
it's dangerous.

Our life is the result of our work.

It is related to our work.

What work?

Very important work.

We researched the historical
origins of our family.

We've studied the religions...

...our family practised
over the years.

We were lifted very high.

We were taken very low.

We discovered that the roots
of our family go back...

...to very precise religions origins.

Which were of
great scientific interest.

That hardly seems
to be scientific progress.

If you ate instead of talking
at least your meal would progress.

What about you?
You're not eating very much.

In fact, I wonder if you eat at all.

Antoine, really!

Actually we do eat.

But very little lately.

- But before...
- Things were different.

But what about
the research you carried out...

...you must have learned something
important about your origins?

- We learned that our family...
- Which we traced way back.

...significantly helped
some religions survive...

...at the end of the Middle Ages.

We're talking about
the worship of the goddess Isis.

You're egyptologists?

No, I'm mean the religion
which continued in Europe...

...in spite of the persecution it
suffered from the Catholic church.

That is why things were
borrowed from foreign religions...

...as the goddess Isis was.
- Who we already mentioned.

In particular, Christians
hunted down their enemies.

They adopted the ancient
religion of the horned god...

...who has been worshipped
since prehistory.

Violently persecuted,
this religion was destroyed.

Although they claimed
to worship the goddess Isis...

...in fact, they had turned
a male god of local origin...

...into a female god
of foreign origin.

So those who opposed Christianity...

...adopted two arguments
against their persecutors.

They'd say, "We can't be blamed
for worshipping the horned god...

...because she is a woman."

Sometimes they'd say, "She is a
woman, so we do not revere an idol."

This woman was the Virgin Mary.

As I said, it was all about derision
because it was verging on blasphemy.

In fact, it was all about
blaspheming the Virgin Mary.

With this notion of reversal,
derision and blasphemy...

...we then take up
this reversal of rites...

...which was later
to give us black masses.

The worship of the dear Isis...

...is at the very heart of
the Western crisis at that time.

It is also at the heart,
the very heart...

...of our research.

We're alone at last.

Please,
let me be alone again tonight.

We're alone. Your cousins are
weird, don't take them seriously.

- Please.
- I've had enough of your...

Don't get upset, you just said
not to take them seriously.

- They are intelligent.
- Intelligent but crazy.

I'm not hanging around here.

It's nine o'clock.

I remember.

They always went out at this time.

They used to send Anubis,
their dog, to fetch me.

They went out hunting.

They hunted at night, like wolves.

They were so cheerful.

Sometimes I'd slip away
and go with them.

You wouldn't have understood.

They hunted their dreadful prey
with stakes.

They carried holy scapulars
and crosses.

They looked like two lords from
the ancient era of the crusades.

They'd return covered in blood
and drunk from the battle.

But one day they returned
with wounds on their necks.

They had what looked like bites
which were bleeding.

Bleeding...

They bled to death.

It's Anubis, their dog.

He's calling me.

Who are you?

Why did you bring me here?

Did you send Anubis to me?

What do you know?

Miss, I know that Anubis
used to bark under your window...

...when your lovers
wished to see you.

You hounded the two masters of
the castle with your selfish love.

That will have to stop immediately.

The lords have been dead
for several days...

...and my love for them
only troubles me now.

Turn around.

One moment.
You are no longer welcome here.

You cannot deal with what I am
or what they are now.

What's going on?

What's happened to you?

I loved you.

Remember?

You were men when I loved you.

Look at you now.

Why do you obey this creature?

That was good. You adopted the only
behaviour that was appropriate...

...silence.

She was the last connection
with our former life.

We are now free. Free...

...never to die again.

We are free never to live again.

You have forgotten something else
about your past.

Isle.

You mean to say you're going
to kill poor Isle too.

No.

I seduced her. It's taken care of.

Would it matter to you?

He have to turn her into one
of our own race, your own race.

That's enough! Don't be insolent.

Her name is Isle...

...she was predestined for it,
just like you were.

I implore you, Isolde,
don't rub salt into the wound.

I see.

You have not yet forgotten...

...that not long ago
you were vampire slayers.

It didn't stop you becoming
vampires because it was your fate.

It was an accident.
If this monster hadn't bitten us...

Who are you calling a monster?

Do you think this is
an ideal situation for us?

Our body requires that we satisfy
our most beastly appetites...

...whilst our lucid spirits
wish to fight against them.

And, above all, fight
against your atrocious revenge.

I'm proud of the way I am.

I appreciate my position
as a wandering vampire.

It is an honour,
a very important privilege.

The master of the world sends me
where I can be of use.

Without me, the monster, as you call
him, would never have infected you.

I remember that your sudden
appearance that night paralyzed us.

The same way my gaze paralyzed Isle
and placed her at my mercy.

- Why us?
- Yes, why us?

I will remind you again.

It was your destiny.

In antiquity, this region
was a kingdom of vampires.

There are many in the world.

Even your research
brought you to us.

Nothing in life happens by chance.

It's outrageous.

It isn't. You're still at home...

...you have your own tombs
to escape the light of day...

...devoted servants.

You're bourgeois vampires.

Why aren't we the same as you?

You're a wandering vampire and
we're bourgeois vampires, you say?

My parents were both vampires...

...who were able to give me
eternal life.

When I was born, the master of the
world invested them as initiates.

In short, you killed Isabelle,
who could have given us a child...

...so we couldn't become initiates,
making us your superiors.

Isabelle loved you
because you hunted vampires...

...she'd never accept you like this.

What do you know?

Why didn't you try to seduce
Isabelle like you did Isle?

You had made her a woman.
She was too set in her ways.

You gave her a joyous life
in that village.

But I'll give you Isle
to console you.

She is all ready.

You are just as desirable
as Isabelle, Isolde.

And we are still masters
of this faraway village.

We could both take you,
just like we took Isabelle.

Stop!

Stop it! I hate men. I hate them!

Stop!

No! Leave me alone.

Who is going to wake him and how?
He must wake up naturally.

We'll wake him gently.
One of us will slip next to him.

He's had a long period
of abstinence.

We need to awaken his desire
so he'll open his eyes.

- You do it.
- You do it.

- No, you.
- No, you.

We'll both have to do it.

Where are they?

I'm going mad. Isle!

I don't really know
what I saw, or thought I saw...

...but I know these
people are dangerous.

We must leave straight away.

No, it's not possible.
I feel weak. I need peace and rest.

You won't get any rest here.

I'll help you, I'll even carry you,
but we must go.

You don't understand. I love
my cousins, they're my only family.

I thought I'd lost them.

Your only family... What about me?
I'm your husband.

Of course you are, Antoine,
but it's not the same.

In any case,
you aren't truly my husband yet.

Is that my fault?

OK, if that's the way it is,
I'll stay.

Isle, what's the matter?

It's the window, the light.

What are you talking about?

The daylight hurts my eyes.

You're not awake yet. Let's go out,
the fresh air will do you good.

You've changed
since we've been here.

You seem distant...

...Iost.

Isolde.

What did you say?

Isolde.

Isolde?

It's the name of that woman who took
you to that ceremony, isn't it?

So I wasn't dreaming.

Leave it! Leave it alone.

What's happening?
What's the matter?

Are you ill?

No, it's nothing. I'm alright.

The daylight hurts my eyes.

The daylight hurts your eyes?

Go and fetch my sunglasses
from the car, please.

No, don't open it.

The daylight will kill me.

The blood that you spilled near
to me woke me before time.

If my eyes were to see the daylight
it would kill me.

Isle, I can feel you are hesitating,
are you going to open it?

What will you decide?

I don't know.

I don't know what to do.

I don't really know who you are.

Or even who I am.

I belong to the world of darkness
whose eternal joys will be yours.

Your cousins and I
are messengers down here.

If you spare me, you will become
one of us and others like us.

lf, on the other hand,
you open this coffin...

...you will be left alone
in this world...

...to carry the weight
of an unbearable mortality.

Take me back to my room,
I'll feel better tonight.

No, I'm too weary to walk.

You're wrong to be afraid of my
cousins, they don't mean any harm.

I love them.
I love all three of them.

Quick, we must get out of here.

Why? What happened?

They are vampires, both of them.

I saw them,
they were drinking blood.

We must leave
while we're still alive.

They are alive,
and will be so eternally.

What? What are you saying?

Why are you dressed like that?

There is a wedding today.

The ceremony which will make me
the same as Isolde...

...and my two companions.

Isle, I don't recognize you.
Who is Isolde?

You will see her, any time now.

It's time.

How will she appear?

From where will she arise?

This is Isolde, she is my friend.

It's too late.

You seem anxious, Antoine.

Why is the table only set for one?

Isle fears the light,
can't she eat now?

- Food?
- Food.

As you are aware, we need just
a small diet, from time to time.

A little diet
has never hurt any woman.

As for her fear of daylight, well...

It is photophobia.
It's quite common.

It's quite normal.

And it is recognized
by psychiatrists.

All it takes is a slight imbalance.

Slightly high blood pressure.

A little bit of tiredness.

Take me for example, often I...

The slightest psychological disorder
and photophobia occurs.

You needn't worry.

It's quite normal.

I'd say the fear of sunlight
is just as normal as...

The fear of God.

Sunlight, I say,
is the beginning of lunar...

...wisdom.

The wisdom that was our ancestors',
great admirers of the night sky.

Direct ancestors
of us and our cousin.

Direct ancestors.

Get rid of that crucifix!

Grab him.

Fetch the ropes!

I've got him.

Isle, you betrayed me.

Isle!

They'll turn you into a monstrous
vampire. It's inadmissible.

But everything is admissible.

We are just as admissible as you.

Despite all the differences
between us.

We understand that these differences
might shock you at first.

If we're so different
why can't you leave us alone?

You've touched a sore point.

A sore point for Isle and me!

A sore point for us, believe me.

Don't think that
we have always been this way.

I don't care what you were like!

Very well,
but you are making a mistake.

- It will help you understand.
- To understand us.

It will help you understand
the situation we're all in today.

You and us.

In brief,
the research we spoke of earlier...

Took us from one religion
to another.

Each one more underground.

Until we came
to the most underground of all.

And not just a religion but also
a symptom of the human state.

If the word human still
applies to our host.

In short, we were lead
into contact with vampirism.

That first contact wasn't exactly
to the vampires' liking...

...because we were
their sworn enemies.

I think we were the most fearsome...

...and extraordinary vampire hunters
in the whole universe.

Our tally was impressive.

- That's right.
- Fantastic.

Until the day...

Until the day a unfortunate event...

- An accident.
- A appalling accident.

Yes, appalling.

They contaminated us
and made us what we are today.

And so what choice did we have?

We could only accept our new duties.

And we accepted them.

Completely.

So maybe now you can understand, my
dear, in light of our sad story...

...that our fate is also worthy
of some compassion.

The initiation ceremony
will take place tonight.

Isle.

Our Isle...

...will receive the final kiss,
the final bite...

...which will allow her to join us.

Those monsters terrorize you.

I can set you free tonight
and give you back your freedom.

Open the gate! Let me out!

Take that crucifix away.

Let me out, I will die.

Let me out!

Let me out!

Let me out!

Let me out! Help me.

Help me!

It will soon be light.

It's time to go back.

We're staying here.

Isle! Maybe it's not too late,
I can still save you.

Come back!

Isle, I love you.

Come back!

Isle, come back. I love you!

No, Isle!

I love you, Isle!