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(Bell tolling)

- Thanks. - All right, let's get out of here.

Hello.

Excuse me, but does anybody here speak English?

Hello.

Could you tell me where the church is, please?

Chris.

I'm Peter.

I didn't expect you to get here this quickly.

I made it as fast as I could.

Oh, don't feel badly about that. It's because you're a stranger here.

I've been here over a year and they still consider me an outsider.

They don't have to worry about me.

I'll be out of here as soon as I say my goodbyes.

Thanks.

- Tired, huh? - I'll rest later.

I'd like to see where my father died, first.

- Those look kind of like totem poles. - Yeah, kind of.

- To ward off evil spirits? - That's right.

Looks like my father chose the right island to study primitive culture.

Is the graveyard next to the, uh, church, up here?

Yes.

You must be tired. Got a room set for you at the inn.

I'd rather stay in the, uh, rectory, in father's room.

My father really loved this church, didn't he?

Among other things.

He was restoring it when he died.

- Where is your sister? - We'll meet her later.

Why don't you change and I'll take you down to where your father is.

Your father was a fine man. Really fine.

You probably knew him better than I did.

Don't feel badly. He understood.

He used to say how he was digging into the past like an old snoop.

While you were building into the future.

He was very proud of you.

Your father was getting into paganism, heathenism and all the other things

this island once went in for.

Probably still does.

I just can't understand how he got killed like that.

Like I told you in the letter, I don't know.

He just wasn't a careless man.

We didn't even know that your father had found this place.

An old ruin hat's been buried six hundred years.

The tomb itself is over seven hundred years old.

He's under that?

There was no way to get him out.

I mean we tried, but we couldn't budge it.

Must weigh tons.

The only thing I've been able to figure out

is that these supports were old and about to give away

and your father brushed against one of them.

What was he doing under there?

I don't know.

We never knew about this tomb.

And there's a maze of tunnels coming in and out of here.

How do you know about them?

Why do they keep it a secret from everyone?

I'm afraid that's something we'll never know.

And there's nothing we can do.

We can bury him.

I'm not going to leave him here.

This is the heraldry of the Dauphin.

Louis VII chose it for his bride.

- Was this island ever French? - No.

But King Louis touched down here once, in the middle of the Second Crusade.

During the Thirteenth Century.

As a matter of fact, that's why I'm here.

I'm writing an historical novel about that crusade.

- Naneo? -"I remain"...it implies forever.

Hannah, 1269...

For the sake of the dead and the welfare of the living...

might this tomb remain untouched and its occupant undisturbed...

until the time of Christ.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...

By order of his Majesty, King Louis VII.

You know Hannah was supposed to have been quite a beauty.

The reason King Louis had brought her along in the crusade

was so that they could get married in the Holy Land.

After he conquered the heathens.

What is that animal next to her supposed to represent?

That's a werewolf.

Do you mean that she was supposed to have been a vampire?

So goes the myth.

Oh, I see, I see. Vampires are never supposed to die

so she's in that tomb fangs and all, ready to go after seven hundred years!

Unless someone put a stake through her heart.

Our only hope, according to my sister.

We have very few facts.

The fewer the facts the harder it is to dispel superstition.

Tell me the facts you do know.

How do you separate fact from fantasy?

Anyway, the story goes like this...

King Louis left Leon for the Crusades with twenty thousand strong.

At sea there was a terrible storm.

And the ship carrying the King's young bride, Hannah

crashed on this island.

The King was frantic over the lost ship and his lost bride.

He searched and searched until he found the wreckage here.

The wise men think he must have come ashore.

Because in those days this was known as 'Vampire Island'.

But the King overrode their fears and objections

and landed with his men.

He was a little too late. When he finally found his lost crew

they had all become vampires.

And Hannah?

I see! And people actually believed a thing like this look place!

- Oh, yes. - And so did your father.

No way!

There was never a man with a greater belief in science.

His faith was unshakable.

This has nothing to do with faith or science.

He studied and watched and...

Come on, Mary, you sound like you're beginning to believe that stuff yourself.

It's written in that book. Signed by the King's personal mark.

They found vampires.

And the King ordered his crusaders to kill all of them.

Ah, yeah.

So when the Knights held the pointed stake to the last vampire's heart...

Hannah's... about to thrust it in and slay her...

the King wept and stopped the knight from the murder.

Even now he was too much in love with his queen to see her put to death.

So he ordered a great tomb built in which to inter her.

Hannah screamed for pity. For her it would be a living death.

But the King's orders were followed. She was

buried alive... and forever in the marble tomb.

Well I'm going to move that tomb. And I'm going to bury my father.

(Latch noise)

(Noise sounds again)

(Noise rattles)

(Laughter)

- Wait! - Where is he!

- Where's who? - The man! The man who was here!

Take it easy now. Who'?

Come on to my room... come to my room!

(Mad laughing)

I swear to you, he was right there. He was right there.

You think I'm imaging things.

- Am I? - Mary's ghost stories.

Sometimes they get to me too.

Especially on an empty stomach and after a long trip and no sleep.

Here.

- You all right'? - Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks.

Okay then, why don't you try and get some sleep?

Goodnight.

Pete... I don't know, I just...

I saw my father's face.

I know.

Sometimes I think I see it myself.

- Morning. - Oh, hi.

I hope I didn't wake you up too early this morning with all this banging...

but I had to get these hooks ready for the men to go to work.

That's all right.

Come on, Hussein.

- Have you a nice cup of coffee? - You bet.

Morning.

Oh, excuse me.

Morning.

They're crazy about you.

They'll like you better when they get to know you.

- Yeah. - Mmm.

Why don't you stick around about twenty years?

Give them the chance.

You know, it's quite a little set-up you got here.

Well, fishing is the life blood of this island.

It was your father's idea to lure the islanders here by

Providing them with a shop to make all of the necessary equipment.

They had the know how, I helped them out.

I kind of a jack of all trades.

And so while I was banging away at fishing gear, he got to know them.

Sort of like the neighbourhood barber shop.

Exactly.

I guess he was also the local judge, doctor and marriage counselor?

You got the picture.

Hey, where's Mary work?

The school's right around the corner there.

(Singing A-B-Cs)

Very good.

On tomorrows geography test, I will expect you to know

the names and shapes of every major island in the Mediterranean.

And since we live so close, all the countries between here and India.

And now I want you to remember, that anyone that I find playing in the cemetery

will spend the whole day in the corner.

Just like Arthur.

Okay, school's out.

Hi.

Well, I don't know... must be my boyish charm.

Every time I run into one of the locals I just seem to turn them all off.

Look, teacher, could you just answer me one question...

What are you doing here?

Teaching school.

And that's what brought you to this miserable island.

I had a few weeks off. I caught up to Peter, here.

I liked it and I stayed.

Travelled halfway around the world just to teach in this little room, right?

Why not'? Peter's the only family I have.

Your father was a good friend.

Darwin and vampires! Hell of a combination.

What was my father after that scares you so much'?

You are frightened, aren't you?

Yes. I'm frightened.

Of vampires?

I've learned not to scoff at unnatural things that seem unanswerable.

There may be answers even if I don't know what they are.

What are the answers?

You wouldn't believe them.

Do you think my father was starting to believe in this garbage?

- He was starting to. - And you'?

That doesn't matter.

It matters plenty because you're damned-near accusing him of paganism.

Or worse!

Look, I'm not accusing him of anything.

I'm just telling you that you're meddling where you have no right.

Burying my father isn't meddling.

I warned you.

I can't do anything more.

- Do you think you'll be able to lift it? - Well see.

It's about four tons of marble.

Do you think you can round up some strong backs to give me a hand?

I'm not going to be anxious.

I'm going to need some help.

I'll get them for you.

Good. Oh, I'll need enough lumber for scaffolds...

I'll need rocks and timbers to reinforce the foundation.

Now what are my chances for that?

That part of it I'll guarantee.

Okay, is there anything on this island heavier than davits?

I've got a really strong hoist to lift this thing.

What are you doing?

I'm breaking the seal.

- You can't! - Well, it's too heavy otherwise.

This tomb must weigh three tons.

We've got to move it in two sections.

Don't. She's in there.

Only what's left of her is.

Don't!

That's all there can be after seven hundred years.

They're opening the tomb.

Ali, we've got to stop them before ifs too late.

No! We should help them. And I'm going to!

Ah, you stay here. It's enough that those other fools went down there.

But... but... the American is a fine engineer, and father told me.

Your father said many things. And he's dead.

But that was an accident.

It was no accident!

She caused it.

Somehow.

But Professor Bolton explained all about superstitions like that.

He was a stranger. He didn't know.

And his son doesn't understand either.

What's there to understand?

You can only believe what you see.

No, Adnan. You can know and believe without seeing.

Okay. We should be able to raise it now.

Look, Goddamn it!

I don't think that there's a man here who doesn't owe the Professor a favour.

You, lslan, when your son fell off the cliff...

And you, Ram, your Me...

He gave her medicine the whole night to break her fever.

I mean, what kind of men are you?

Do I have to get down on my knees to beg you to bury a man like that?

It'll be fine... keep pulling.

We're done! Tie it off.

I can't get over it, she's perfectly preserved.

She looks alive!

It could have been a vacuum.

After seven hundred years?

It was some kind of lost embalming rite.

You know, like they did with the mummies.

You know what Mary said?

She said that my father was starting to believe in vampires.

He couldn’t have believed that stuff he he wanted.

Oh, I don't know. There's just no logical explanation for all of this.

Your father had a saying:

"Logic comes by the cold light of dawn."

What is it, Bonnie?

Who's out there?

Bonnie?

Bonnie?

Don't you go near there.

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

Bonnie!

- Zora. Zora, come on. Bonnie got killed.

How did it happen?

The old seaman says the vampire did it. Come on.

- Where are they? - At the tavern. Everybody’s there.

Come on, hurry.

It was a wolf.

You're blind old man, how do you know what it was?

I heard it.

I smelt it. It was a wolf, I tell you.

It was a wolf, running out of that stinking fog. It killed my Bonnie.

Ii came straight at me, blood dripping from its mouth.

If he doesn't stop scaring them we're never going to get them back to work.

(Mutters)

Abdul Hamid, listen...

You know there are no wolves on this island.

It was a wolf from her tomb.

It was probably just a wild dog.

Your imagination is playing tricks on you.

You fool. You freed the vampire, and my dog lies dead to prove it.

That's a myth! A story for old women and children.

No telling when she will find all of the sealed vampires

and they'll go cavorting around naked

holding black mass... sucking off little babies' blood.

Nothing evil they won't try and do.

He's got them convinced.

Why shouldn't they be? It's the truth.

You don't believe this stupid superstition.

Put away them college books and get yourself some dog bane

and garlic flowers to keep that she-wolf down.

Because I want to tell you something.

You let Hannah loose. Just give her a couple of more days to get back her strength.

Vampire Island it was and will be again!

You started Hannah back to killing. We can't forgive you that.

That tomb's got to be sealed back fast.

Going out as a wolf she can only get other animals...

But soon she's strong enough to go out on her own.

She'll be coming after us.

It's our only chance.

We've got to help. We've got to go as fast as we can.

Now that she has blood she will be different.

You with eyes, look at her face.

You will see. You will see.

It's all right.

It's all right. He's gone.

What was he? He was horrible.

I don't know, but he's gone now. You're safe.

You're safe.

I'd vociferate the contained room... as there were a Devil's cult on the island...

And then after the accident there seemed to be no escape.

- L felt all alone. - Oh, Peter was here.

He would never believe any of it.

I did everything I could to get him to wrap this research here and leave the island.

But he got hung up on all the myths, as your father had.

And then when you arrived and wanted to move the tomb.

It seemed as if an awful plan was unfolding.

As if what was happening was meant.

I mean that it was all a plan in order to free Hannah from here tomb.

Look here, little girl, why didn't you tell me all of this when I first got here?

You never would have believed me.

Ali said one thing, to leave everything as it was.

To take no chances.

Are you cold? You want to go on back in?

Can we stay a little while longer?

Li's the first time I've felt something here in such a long time.

Do you mind?

No, I don't mind.

We send astronauts to the moon and we've garlic flowers

to protect ourselves from vampires.

It seems to me we haven't come very far in the last thousand years.

You'll feel a lot worse if she gets out tonight.

What about the wolf pan of her?

She can't get past them flowers either.

So she's beaten either way. Tomorrow we are going to have that lid back on her.

Maybe.

She's smart. Seven hundred years smart, and she ain't about to get sealed up again.

If she can help it.

You know this is crazy. Crazy!

Before the moon comes up make sure that dog bane is around Hannah's tomb.

It is the only thing that will keep her in there.

Well... hello.

Caught in the act, huh?

Okay, I approve. And how I approve!

Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that, Pete, because

I want to take Mary away from this island.

Why, that's great!

Just great! I should never have let her come in the first place.

Chris, that's not fair. I never decided to go.

Oh, yes, you'll go. And the sooner the better.

But who'll take care of you?

Who's going to take care of screwball brother?

Oh, Peter, I didn't mean it to sound like that.

Well, you see Chris.

I was a bloody genius. Jead, Hemmingway, Mahler.

I could put them all away.

Come on, Peter.

Betwixt the word and the deed. I mean, getting it down on paper...

something didn't connect.

I mean, I had plenty of ideas.

I saw the whole scene before it started.

Once I got into the research I'd get hung up.

And I never wrote the book.

So what did I do?

I dropped out.

I mean I tried every scene in the book and then some.

You name it, I did it.

I took uppers and downers and inners and outers...

until I was blown out, spaced out, beaten up, shot up...

and I tripped and I ripped.

I mean I shot everything but apsrin.

I blew my house down.

Thank god for Mary.

She came just in time and dragged that kid out of there.

I feel like a reformed hooker.

I mean, man, I'm functioning now.

This island, Mary, it all straightened out my head.

And you know something, I'm writing good stuff now.

So, my sister, my nursemaid, my friend

don't you think it's time you began concentrating a bit on your own life?

Maybe Chris here's just the guy to help you do it.

Don't you think?

My father would kill me if he knew what I was doing.

Just make sure that stake is good and sharp... or we're all dead.

Are you really going to stick this through her heart?

I'm blind, yet I am the only one that can see what's happening.

Sure, I'm going to kill her.

It's the only way to stop her.

Let's get on with it. The men will be getting to work soon.

I was taught by Professor Bolton that vampires were myths.

That they aren't real.

They're real enough... if you ever feel her fangs sinking in your neck.

What do you want me to do?

All you have to do is lead me into the tomb.

Show me where her heart is... then make sure I drive the stake right into it.

Do really believe that Hannah is seven hundred years old?

It doesn't make any sense.

It'll make sense if you wake up one morning with two holes in your neck.

But what if she comes after us?

I told you to bring a cross.

Hold it over her. It's like dog bane. Burns through her like acid.

Adnan! Adnan! Where are you?

I'll be right with you, I'm making a cross.

Hurry! We have no time.

We must get to the tomb before the men get back to work.

Do you hear me? Adnan?

I'm coming as fast as I can.

We'll be ready to seal her back up this afternoon. You satisfied now?

Maybe.

But I don't know what she's figuring out in there.

Well, we'll give her another couple of hundred years to think it over.

- The rope is broken. - No, it's been cut.

Let's take him home.

Will you men come back later?

Why?

Isn't one victim enough for you.

We may never know what went on down there.

But we know this, he was trying to put an end to Hannah.

He was trying to rid this island of her and the vampire superstition

that has haunted you all for generations!

- Now if he was right... - He was right.

Why else is he dead?

All right, if he was right, then the only way out

is for us to finish what he started.

How? The lid is covering her heart, there is no way to kill her.

Yes there is, if we move the tomb like we started to do!

Then we'll seal the lid back on her tight- and forever!

We tried and failed. We can't.

We can if every man will help.

Now I can fix that rigging.

With a little bit of muscle we can do this job and do it quickly.

Who would do this thing to my son?

Whoever killed the old sailor, and tried to carry off Mary.

Come, let us sit with our dead.

That's all well and good, but remember there's still Hannah.

She's in back of all of this.

The killing won't stop until we get her buried again and sealed up in her tomb!

Mary.

Hey! You men, listen to me- Hannah's out!

Any man who's got a family, go home. Hannah's loose!

- How do you know? - I saw her.

Get crucifixes, stakes... warn everybody you see!

Ali, did you hear that? Hannah's escaped!

Come on!

- Look, have you seen Mary? - I haven't seen her.

Search the whole island.

- Let's go down to the beach. - We'll search and warn everybody..

- This way, come on to the beach. - Hurry up. Come on.

Mary!

Mary!

Mary!

Chris, are you down there? I've been waiting for you.

Chris!

(Chanting)

For all of those faithful to you, Hannah, life has changed my enemy.

(Chanting)

He me , oh Hannah, for you are our all and our strength.

In you who rise from the dead dawns our hope of resurrection.

Rise and you restore our life.

- You promise immortality. - Oh, Peter!

(Chanting)

Mary!

Mary?

Mary?

- Peter. - Get out!

- Come away with me, Peter. - No.

- I shall have immortality. - Immortality!

Happiness. That which you already have in this life.

Rejoice in it. Live it. Believe me...

I will not leave you.

You already have. You've taken on a lover.

- Oh, Hannah, my life and my all. - Peter, stop this!

- Inflame me with such love as to light up my eyes. - Peter, listen to me.

- So that I shall never sleep in death. - Peter, it will be like before, you and me.

I shall never die, but live.

Oh my god!

That's blasphemy!

This is a sacred temple.

Such love is the light in my eyes so that I shall never sleep in death.

- I'll keep Chris, but stay with you. - I shall not die but live.

- Do you understand me, Peter, we'll always stay together.

Mary, will you mean that?

Oh, then I'm saved. Saved from the tortures and the heaviness.

Yes, Peter. Yes, my darling.

- Come, come away with me. - Yes.

Hannah.

Mary, do you hear that?

- It's Hannah! - Peter, come quickly.

Mary, she's come for us.

We'll be her angels of death.

Couriers for our devil goddess.

I think we should make our rounds hand in hand.

The only world where the love of brother and sister is blessed.

And not cursed.

Oh, how I've worked for this day.

Struggled to set Hannah free.

You mean you killed Chris' father?

He would have tried to prevent my setting her free.

- And Chris. - Chris only helped.

Come on!

Look.

Oh Hannah...

Come to nourish our souls and rejoice in us.

Your two faithful servants.

Who wish to be united to each other and to you.

Forever and eternally.

(Chanting)

Come, oh Hannah, for we will delight in your commands

which we love exceedingly.

(indistinct chanting)

It appeared...

- Look over there. - All right.

It's so dark.

- Look down by the creek. - All right.

Nothing.

Wait, I heard something.

What noise?

Oh my god!

Kill me!

Put the stake in my heart.

Please!

Mine... mine is gone.

I want your blood!

I need it, please.

Kill me!

I beg you, Adnan.

Kill me!

Oh Hannah...

Come and inflame us with so much love as to light up our eyes.

That we shall never sleep in death.

(Chanting)

You who have risen from the dead to unite us in black matrimony.

Witness this most sacred proof of our desire to join you in a better world.

Witness and receive our blood oath.

(Chanting)

Now wait a minute. Now listen. Listen to me!

I'll stand by you.

I'll help you in any way I can

if you just let me get you and your sister out of this place.

Just hold on.

Everything's going to be all right.

I've always been your friend, and I want you to believe me.

Are you all right, Mary?

I don't know. He made me drink something.

Hey!

Now I want you to stay in my room until I get back.

What are you going to do?

I'm going to find Hannah.

She only has till dawn to get all of the blood she needs. Now here!

Take these flowers and wrap them around you. You'll be all right.

Go on.

There... There she is!

Hannah?

Hannah!

Hannah! Come out!

I know you're here.

You're still hungry, aren't you?

You need more blood.

Well, here I am, Hannah. Why don't you try me?

Come on, Hannah. Come on.

There's only one more hour till sunrise and I won't let you back in your tomb.

Chris, are you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right. Here, give me that. Come on, we've got to find her!

This way.

Stay here. Now don't move, whatever happens.

Look! There's someone up there.

(Screams)

Subtitles: 2017 Elphinstone Dalrymple