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Oh, Hannah.

Come and inflame us with such love,

as to light up our eyes.

That we should never sleep in death.

- Hah!

- Thank you.

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!

Whoa.

I'm Peter.

Didn't expect you to get here this quickly.

I made it as fast as I could.

Oh.

Don't feel badly about that.

Just because you're a stranger here.

I've been here over a year.

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 goodbye.

- Thanks. - Tired, huh?

- I'll rest later.

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

- Hey-up!

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 church up there?

Yes.

You must be tired.

We've got a room set for you at the inn.

I'd rather stay in the rectory,

in my 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?

You'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, we don't know.

He just wasn't a careless man.

We didn't even know

that your father had found this place.

It's an old ruin that's been buried 600 years.

The tomb itself is over 700 years old.

- He's under that?

- There was no way to get him out.

- 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 way,

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 you 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 Dauphins.

Mm-hmm.

King 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 13th century.

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

I'm writing a historical novel about that Crusade.

- "Manere."

"I remain."

It implies "Forever."

Huh, now.

1269.

"For the sake of the dead,

"and the welfare of the living,

"that this tomb remain untouched

"and its occupant undisturbed

"until the coming 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 Crusades

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

after he had conquered the Heathens.

- What's that animal next to her

supposed to represent?

- That's her 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 700 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 Lyon for the Crusades with 20,000 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.

His wise men begged him not to come ashore.

Because in those days,

this was known as

Vampire Island.

But the King overruled their fears and objections

and landed with his men.

He was a little too late.

When he finally found his lost crew,

they'd all become vampires.

- And Hannah?

- Mm-hmm. - I see.

And people actually believe a thing like this took place.

- Oh, yes.

- And so did your father.

- No way.

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

His faith was unshakeable.

- That's nothing to do with faith of 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 monk.

They found vampires.

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

- Ah, yeah.

"But when the knight 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."

I'm going to move that tomb.

And I'm going to bury my father.

Chris!

- Where is he? - Where's who?

The man!

The man who's here!

Take it easy now. Who?

Come into my room!

Come to my room!

I swear to you, he was right there.

He was right there.

You think I'm imagining things.

Am I?

- It's Mary's ghost stories.

Sometimes they get to me too.

Especially on an empty stomach,

and after a long trip with no sleep.

Here.

You all right?

- Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks.

- Okay, then. Why don't you try and get some sleep?

Good night.

- Pete? - Hmm?

- I don't know.

I just...

I saw my father's face.

- I know.

Sometimes I think I see it myself.

- Morning.

- 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, Hussain.

How do you go for 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? - Mm.

Why don't you stick around about 20 years?

Give them a chance.

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

- Mm-hmm.

Fishing is the lifeblood of this island.

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

by providing them with his shop

to make all the necessary equipment.

Since I had the know-how I helped him out.

I'm kind of a Jack of all trades.

So while I was banging away and fishing here

he got to know them.

- Sort of like the neighborhood barber shop.

- Exactly.

- I guess he was also the local judge,

doctor, marriage counsellor.

- You've got the picture.

- Hey.

Where's Mary work?

- Her schoolroom's right around the corner there.

- Very good.

Now, on tomorrow's geography test,

I'll expect you to know the name and shape

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 Arlda.

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 off.

Look, teacher,

could you just answer me one question?

What are you doing here?

- Teaching school.

- That's what brought you to this miserable island?

I had a few weeks off.

I caught up to Peter here.

I liked that, and then I stayed.

Mm-hmm?

Travelled halfway around the world,

just to teach in this little room, right?

- Why not?

Peter was the only family I had.

Your father was a good friend.

- Darwin and vampires.

Hell of a combination.

What was my father after that scared 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?

- It doesn't matter. - It matters plenty,

because you're damn near accusing him

of paganism, or worse.

- Look, I'm not accusing him of anything.

I'm just telling you,

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?

- We'll see.

It's about four tons of marble.

Do you think you can round up

some strong backs to give me a hand?

- They're not going to be anxious.

- I'm going to need some help.

- I'll get them here.

- 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?

- Well that part of it I'll guarantee.

- Okay.

Is there anything on this island heavier than davits.

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

What are you doing?

- I'm breaking the seal.

- You can't.

It's too heavy otherwise.

This tomb must weight three tons.

We've got to move it in two sections.

- Don't.

She's in there.

- Only what's left of her is.

Bones!

That's all there can be after 700 years.

- They're opening the tomb.

Ali!

We've got to stop them before it's 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, the American is a fine engineer.

His father told me.

- His 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

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, god damn it.

I don't think that there's a man here

who doesn't owe the Professor a favor.

You, Ihsan.

When your son fell off the cliff.

And you, Amir. Your wife.

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?

Keep it tight.

Pull it.

Tie it off.

I can't get over it.

She's perfectly preserved.

She looks alive.

Could have been a vacuum.

After 700 years?

Or some kind of lost embalming art.

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 if he wanted.

Which he didn't.

- I don't know.

There's just no logical explanation for all this.

- Your father had a saying.

"Logic comes by the cold light of dawn."

- What is it, Bonny?

Who's out there?

Bonny?

Bonny!

Don't you go near there.

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Bonny!

Zora, Zora, come on!

Bonny got killed.

How did it happen?

The old sailor says the vampire did it.

Come on.

Where are they?

- At the tavern. Everybody's there.

Come on! Hurry!

- It was a wolf. - 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 Bonny.

It came straight at me.

Blood dripping from its mouth.

- If you don't stop scaring them,

we're never going to get them back to work.

- 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's playing tricks on you.

- You fool.

You freed the vampire.

And my dog lies dead to prove it.

- That's a myth!

It's a story for old women and children.

- No telling,

when she'll find all the sealed-up vampires

and they'll go cavorting around naked.

Holding black mass.

Sucking up little babies' blood.

Nothing evil they won't try and do.

- He's got 'em 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 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'll be different.

You with eyes, look at her face.

You will see.

You will see.

It's all right.

That's all right.

- He's gone. - Who was he?

He's horrible!

- I don't know.

But he's gone now.

You'll be safe.

You're safe.

I've been so frightened.

I kept hearing rumors of a devil's cult on the island.

Then after the accident,

there seemed to be no escape.

I felt all alone.

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 with me.

But he got us hung up on all the messes your father had.

And then when you arrived,

I wanted to move the tomb.

It seemed as if some awful plan was unfolding.

As if what was happening was meant.

That it was all a plan

in order to free Hannah from her tomb.

- Look here, little girl.

Why didn't you tell me all this when I first got here?

- You never would have believed me.

I only thought of one thing.

To leave everything as it was.

To take no chances.

- Are you cold?

Do you want to go on back in?

- Can we stay a little while longer?

It's the first time I've felt secure in such a long time.

Do you mind?

- No, I don't mind.

I've picked the dog bane.

It's almost finished.

To put around Hannah.

It'll keep her in all right.

- They send astronauts to the moon,

and we've magic flowers to protect ourselves from vampires.

Seems to me we haven't come very far

in the last 1,000 years.

- You'll feel lots worse.

If she gets out tonight.

- What about the wolf part of her?

- She can't get past them flowers neither.

- She's beaten either way.

Tomorrow we're going to have that lid back on her.

- Maybe.

She's smart.

700 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?

- Oh... - Okay, I approve.

And how I approve.

- I'm glad to hear you say that, Pete,

because I want to take Mary away from this island.

- That's great!

Just great.

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

- Chris, that's not fair.

I never said I'd 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, Pete, I didn't mean it to sound like that.

Well, you see, Chris.

I was a bloody genius.

Gide, Hemingway, Mailer.

I could put them all away.

- Come on, Peter.

Betwixt the word and the deed,

and 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 get into the research,

I get hung up.

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.

I took uppers and downers, and inners and outers,

until I was blown out, spaced up,

beat up, shot up.

And I tripped.

And I ripped.

I mean, I shot everything but aspirin.

I blew my house down.

Thank God for Mary.

She came in just in time,

and dragged that cat out the bag.

I feel like a reformed hooker.

I mean, man, I'm functioning now.

This island, your father, Mary,

it all straightens out in my head.

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 is just the guy to help you do it.

Don't you think?

Hmm?

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'm 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 are 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 you really believe

that Hannah is 700 years old?

It doesn't make any sense.

It'll make sense if you wake up some 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.

Are you satisfied now?

Maybe.

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

We'll give her another

couple of hundred years to think it over.

The rope is broken.

I know.

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's 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's 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'll help!

Now, I could fix that rigging.

With a little bit of muscle,

we can do this job, and we can 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 very well and good,

but remember there's still Hannah.

She's in back of all this.

The killing won't stop until we get her buried again

and sealed up in her tomb!

Hey!

- 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!

Now get crucifixes, stakes.

Warn everybody you see!

Ali, did you hear that?

Hannah's escaped!

Come on!

- Look, have you see Mary?

- I haven't seen her.

Search the whole island.

Don't go down to the beach.

Warn everybody!

Torches!

Get crosses!

Don't take any chances now.

This way, come on with me.

Come on.

Mary!

Mary!

Mary?

Chris, are you down there?

I've been waiting for you.

Chris?

For all those faithful to you, Hannah,

life has changed.

Hear me, oh Hannah.

For you are our all and our strength.

In you who rise from the dead

dawns our hope of resurrection.

Rising, you restore our life.

You promise immortality.

- Oh, Peter.

Mary!

Mary?

Mary?

Get out of here!

- 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.

But leave 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 lighten up my eyes... - Peter, listen to me.

So that I shall never sleep in death.

- Peter, it'll be like before. You and me.

I shall never die, but live.

- Oh my God.

- That's blasphemy!

This is a sacred temple for her.

- That such love is to light up my eyes...

- Peter! - So that I shall

- never sleep in death. - I'll leave Chris.

- I'll stay with you! - I shall not die,

- but live. - Do you understand me?

Peter, we'll always stay together!

- Mary.

Do you really mean that?

Oh.

That 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.

Lately we shall 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's father?

- He would have tried to prevent my setting her free.

- And Chris?

- Chris.

Only helped.

- Come on!

Look!

- Oh, Hannah, our god and our all,

come to nourish our souls and rejoice in us.

You have two faithful servants

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

Forever and eternally.

Come, oh Hannah.

For we will delight in your commands,

which we love exceedingly.

She disappeared in a cloud.

- Look over there. - All right.

It's so dark.

Look down by the creek.

All right.

Nothing.

- No, nothing. - Shh! Wait!

- What is it? - I heard something.

What?

- Oh my God.

Ihsan!

Kill me.

Put this stake in my heart.

Please!

My mind is gone.

I want your blood!

I want your blood!

Please!

Please!

Kill me!

Kill me!

I beg you, Ihsan!

Kill me!

- Oh, Hannah.

Come and inflame us with such love

as to light up our eyes.

That we shall never sleep in death.

You were 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.

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'll 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.

- Mary!

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 'til dawn to get all the blood she needs.

Now, here.

Take these flowers and wrap them round you.

You'll be all right.

Go on.

There! There she is!

I see her!

- 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 'til 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.

Come on, come on!

This way!

Keep looking.

Got to find her soon!

Stay here.

Now, don't move, whatever happens.

All right.

Look, there's someone up there.

Did you do what I told you to do?

- Yes, come out and play now.

They're gone.

- I don't like the sunlight.

Come in here to me.