Do you think he'll come tonight?
There's a full moon, he'll be here.
What about her?
We are not even sure that she exists!
My informer has seen her.
From a distance, of course.
A white shape...
But she moved!
Was she alive?
She's dead.
And yet, she is alive, somehow...
Thanks to him!
Does he love her that much?
He's passionately, madly in love with her...
...and we'll make use of that.
Assuming he comes...
Hush!
Listen...
Put it down.
He is alone...
What time is it?
It's midnight.
Look!
Here you go...
Come, now is the time!
My love, my love, how I love your pallid skin!
You'd better talk, if you don't want the circus to start looking for a new clown!
What do you want from me?
Your are one of the parallel creatures...
...who live in the shadows...
...you're from the throng of the Master's worshippers!
I want him, I must have him!
What Master?
What are you blathering about?
Look me in the eyes!
No, no!
Do you think you can resist being hypnotized?
Fine then, my assistant will open your beloved's coffin...
...and the light of day will turn her to dust!
No, have pity, don't do it!
Tell me then, where can I find the Master?
You must ask the parallel ones...
The others...
Me, I know nothing, but they can put you on the right track...
Take me to them, then!
T-They are close by...
The ruins of the Tower of the Damned!
You'll find someone there!
Who shall I find?
That I do not know!
Your will recognize her...
...at the Tower of the Damned, the Murderers' Tower!
She will go there, guided by the ghosts of those who were slaughtered!
Go to the Tower, that's where you'll find her!
If this is a trick, your dead cutie will turn to dust!
Goodbye, Triboulet, go back to your circus!
You are accursed!
You'll never find the Master!
The parallel ones will kill you!
What should we look for?
I have no idea...
But I would guess something strange, unusual!
How long is this going to take?
Whatever time it takes!
The idiot, the idiot!
Get the hell out of here!
Who are you?
Don't know...
I am nobody...
Why do you stay near the tower?
Tower...
...dancing before the tower...
Look at me, little one!
Look me in the eyes!
Can't you see that she's just the village idiot?
That dwarf has tricked us!
This wretch of a woman cannot be one of the parallel creatures that he was talking about.
Look at her!
She has an empty stare, she is empty, she is out of it...
Maybe there's a whole fantasy world...
...living inside her mind, that neither you nor I can imagine.
Maybe her mind wanders so that she can live a thousand adventures inside...
Look at me, woman!
Look me in the eyes!
Open your mind!
Tell me what you see!
I am in the bowels of Africa, pursued by a horde of cannibals...
Suspended by a liana above a pond, I'm about to be swallowed...
...by an alligator, me, my boots, my white safari jacket, my pith helmet...
And later, what happens later?
I'm crying, I'm lost...
...suspended by a rope from a ripped hot-air balloon...
...that's slowly deflating and falling into the ocean.
The sharks are circling, waiting...
What happens next?
Please tell me!
An opium den in Hong-Kong.
Three Chinamen carry me unconscious down a secret tunnel.
I am wearing a French Navy ship-boy suit...
...you know, the one with the blue collar and the red-pompom cap...
Now tell me about the Master.
I want to know where he is.
I know that he's part of your fantasy world!
The Master, oh yes, the Master...
He's expecting me in his castle...
...he'll make love to me, he'll take me in his arms...
I am his woman...
Where is he?
Where is his coffin?
No one knows...
Only the Queen of Shadows can join him...
Well, where is she?
She's in Paris, the great city.
He has infected her with madness.
The Queen of Shadows is demented...
...they are keeping her prisoner, but she will escape and join him...
Where?
She's in Paris...
...that bedlam...
...the Sisters of the Order of the White Virgin have her locked up.
They keep her away from the Master...
That's all she knows.
It's funny, but I feel as if she is double...
A madwoman and someone else...
...someone wilder, more aggressive, a night creature...
Do you really believe this Queen of Shadows exists?
Of course.
It shouldn't be that difficult to find where the...
...Order of the White Virgin is holding a madwoman in Paris.
Not in an asylum, of course, but maybe a private house?
Come, let's go look for her.
I am the madwoman of the tower...
...but tonight, I'll turn into someone else...
So, watch out!
Watch out for the Ogress!
Your Mother Superior is expecting us.
I'll have some one escort you to her.
Sister Cigar!
Sister Pipe!
Take these gentlemen to the Mother Superior's office.
They are coming to get her.
We must let Triboulet know.
This way, our friends can help her to run away tonight....
Before these men take her away...
You wanted to see me?
Yes, Mother.
We are grateful that you consented to this meeting.
Could you tell us about this young creature?
This poor wretch has always been demented...
Maybe she shares genes with the famous Count Dracula, as the rumors say.
Apparently Dracula is alive somewhere, and he calls to her mentally.
He has turned her mad, and her madness is poisoning all of us.
She is incoherent.
We manage her estate...
...and that's why she can live in...
...this town house where she is taken care of by some of our most pious sisters.
Yet, even they are falling under the spell of such wicked influence.
We all lose our mind somewhat when we interact with her...
If you can help her, do so.
And now, I'll have someone escort you to her room.
Thank you Mother.
Please leave!
Our guests want to be alone!
Where is she?
I'll ask that she be brought here.
She is incoherent, you know?
How should I say...
She's special...
That we know!
Sister Martha!
Where is lsabelle?
Upstairs, somewhere!
She is undoubtedly watching us.
If she agrees to meet you, then we'll go to her room.
Sister, I am cold, I am trembling...
Come, Sister Martha, let me warm you!
Thank you, my sister.
You may be shocked, but you are wrong.
It's the Lady's proximity that makes us all a little berserk.
It's impossible to take care of a crazy person without becoming crazy yourself.
But, you should know that we are still sisters of the Order of the White Virgin.
Now I'll ask that she be brought here.
Can you hear her music?
She is coming.
Please do not be shocked...
...she is demented, you know, she's always been incoherent.
But we love our little lsabelle.
Even if our spirit, our mind sometimes is weak...
The Presbytery has lost none of its charm, nor the garden its colors!
I am, I am the small boy who went to look for your scarf by the sea...
Dear, dear, oh dear Cordelia!
Tonight, it's murder by the sword!
I see...
I go back to the radiating darkness of death!
I see, I see, I shall not contradict you today, but we'll talk again tomorrow...
...from the bottom of our tombs!
Now there's something else!
The girl has clearly lost her mind.
I can't make anything out of it.
All madness has a hidden coherence that's invisible...
...to the eyes of normal people.
She's one of the parallels...
...a member of that mysterious brotherhood of different beings.
At two-fifteen, like always, may Jesus fill your heart.
Lord, have pity on her.
I have named the time of the Skull Clocks...
Come then into her room, she is waiting there for us.
I take leave of you.
Mother Superior believes you might be of help to her...
It's about time, because her madness is slowing getting the better of us.
This degenerate mansion that used to belong to her family is not a...
...proper residence for the Sisters of the Order of the White Virgin.
Are you a parallel?
Do you belong to a double world, those who worship the Master?
He's in the clock chamber...
Where is this room?
The clock chamber...
His coffin lies there, in the ancestral land where he sleeps forever.
Ah, I am the Queen of Shadows!
His queen...
Oh, my Prince...
Oh, King of Darkness, I am no more than your shadow...
Where is he?
Where the clocks are...
I see him!
Dracula!
She has seen him, maybe she can lead us to him...
The more he talked to me, the more I saw myself become mad...
Look here, look at me!
Tonight, at midnight...
...you will rise and leave this place...
You will let no one stop you.
Once you are out, you will turn to the left...
We shall be waiting in a car.
Sleep, now.
Let's go, Eric.
Look, Sister Martha, she is sleeping.
It's not a real sleep, this man has cast a spell on her.
I saw him make some gestures from the half-open door.
You are not afraid, you are one of us.
When night falls, something strange will happen, I can feel it.
Those who want to take you away are roaming in the park...
Tell me more, Mother.
You seem to be the least affected by the madness that is infecting all of us.
Therefore, I'll tell you.
She was an abandoned baby.
A little, starving street kid.
It was at the time of the Mother of the Crucifixion.
She took the little girl in.
We never did learn her real name.
She was, I don't know, marked...
Like she does now...
...she would repeat strange sentences that seemed to be from another world...
Mother, come quick, we have visitors who want to speak with you!
Fine, I'm coming.
The coffin opens...
...the cover creaks...
...he rises...
...now he stands.
He looks at me.
He opens his arms to me...
Now I am in his arms.
Take me away, sweet Lord, far from these walls, far from everything...
Tonight at midnight, you will rise.
Yes, I know, I promised.
At midnight I shall listen to your voice and shall meet you in the park.
Who are you?
What do you want from me?
My God, I am all alone, I feel so lonely.
They are coming!
They want you!
Who are you, really?
Mother Superior wants you.
Far, far away, on an island, someone else also wants you.
He is looking for a fiancée who will save him.
And the professor and his helper also want you...
They are waiting outside...
I don't know!
I know nothing!
Leave me alone!
You wanted to see me?
Yes, well, you know, actually, we are coming for...
We've come to take lsabelle.
Isabelle?
Isabelle who?
The little girl, the foundling.
You know, the girl you are raising away from it all, in this house...
We are her family, distant relatives...
I see...
You shall immediately depart from this holy house.
We shall protect this child even until death, if necessary!
You shall regret it!
You have no idea what you are up against!
Know that lsabelle is the fiancée of a great man!
You shall learn all about him!
Sister Martha!
Please escort these visitors out!
Not much more time left, it's almost midnight!
Mother?
Yes, Sister Martha?
You know I have a gift, I feel things...
This night, is full of dangers...
I know.
Do not be alarmed, Sister Martha.
The two intruders are gone, I ordered them to leave!
If I dared...
Dare, Sister Martha, dare!
Something has survived in me from my childhood in a gypsy camp...
I know exorcisms are pagan rights...
And you would like to resort to those rituals to protect our little lsabelle?
That's it, Mother.
We are alone, no one can see us.
Sister Martha, you can't be serious!
Sister Martha, from now on I'll call you Sister Folies-Bergères!
Come to us, lsabelle, leave this house, especially, don't let anyone stop you!
Baby, baby, what are you doing here, it's midnight!
Don't let her go, get a hold of her!
Come with me!
I won't let them have you, I'll hide you!
You are the five-legged, box-like dwarf.
And me, I am the Sabbath Queen.
Yes, yes, this is the night, the night of your engagement.
You are Dracula's girl!
There, it's Triboulet!
He took her away!
Hurry, let's go!
Our mission is accomplished, now we can leave.
We've had enough of these good sisters!
Hey, Ogress, are you there?
It's me, it's Triboulet!
I have a surprise for you!
Oh the little darling...
Thank you, Triboulet, thank you for this offer.
But it's a little boy!
Oh, he is adorable.
Why are you crying?
I hate crying babies!
Now be quiet...
Tell me, Triboulet, what is that you want?
You never bring presents without a reason!
This girl belongs to the Master!
We must help her escape from her enemies.
The Master?
The Master is alive?
Yes, and she's the only one who can take us to him.
You must hide her until tonight, until the engagement ceremony.
The clock chamber...
The clock chamber.
Another bite, he's so tender and delicious...
Hurry up now!
Someone could have followed me...
Be not afraid, I won't touch her.
It's a pity though, she must be quite tender and juicy...
Quiet, I hear someone coming!
You're right.
Go this way, you'll see a passage that leads down to the Castle.
The Master's ancient castle!
What is this creature?
Stop right there, where is lsabelle?
Have pity!
I'm a prisoner of these tunnels, buried alive!
I haven't seen the rays of the sun since I was thrown here by men.
I am reduced to stealing the only food my body will accept...
...these horrible, small, howling creatures...
I have no one to hold me...
No one to quench my lust...
You're one of the parallels, aren't you?
I am nothing, I'm fading day by day.
Maybe I am one of those parallels, I wouldn't know.
I forget who I am...
...because I walk under the crust of the earth eating mushrooms and flesh...
Oh yes, throbbing flesh...
Triboulet, the dwarf, have you seen him?
Triboulet, you say?
Well, maybe, I think someone was here.
He was with a young woman.
Yes, when I close my eyes I see two vague shadows dancing before me.
Maybe they're the people you're looking for!
What can we do for your?
Take me with you, I beg you.
See how I offer you my breasts, my womb, see how I want you.
Please don't leave me here, don't leave me behind.
Take me in your arms, take me away with you.
Professor, we can't leave this poor woman here...
How disgusting!
Kill her, Eric!
Human dogs!
I am an ogress!
I despise you!
The parallels will destroy you!
I can already feel my teeth shredding you...
...to pieces, chewing you.
I will tear your skin and turn it into pulp...
...like I've done with this baby!
Eric, destroy this evil creature!
He is alive!
He is alive and sees you!
I will meet him!
Together we'll slit your throat!
Dracula, Dracula, Dracula...
Let's go!
Triboulet hasn't come back.
There must be another exit at the end of the tunnel.
Hurry, we must find lsabelle!
Cowards!
You're cowards...
...the ogress will not die before having seen the Master again!
Do you think they are hiding here?
We are in the antechamber of evil.
I feel it.
Don 't forget, I am a medium...
Some kind of satanic ritual is going to take place here.
Let's hide, someone is coming.
Who are those creatures?
Quiet, they are witches.
They are summoning the Mistress of Ceremonies who will make the invocation.
Do you think lsabelle is in that casket?
Of course not, look!
That's her!
That's the She-Wolf.
The Mistress of Ceremonies!
You called me, Triboulet!
What do you want?
Beautiful She-Wolf, you shall serve the Master!
You must sacrifice three religious sisters to him.
This must be done before he can appear and see his fiancée.
This means he shall soon be free.
I shall do everything in my power for him.
Are we the only followers here?
Oh She-Wolf, the Vampire Woman and the Ogress will be here instantly.
Pity, give me strength...
...snatch me away from the death that's pulling me by the legs...
I feel life flowing through me.
Allow me to get dressed!
I can't appear naked before God!
Oh, the wretched creatures!
Run, if you don't want to have your throat slit by one of the parallels, run!
You must escape!
See if they can get away!
Come, let's go!
You have been promised to him.
Come, if he wants you, he will appear before you!
The clock is a passage to the clock chamber where his corpse is lying...
If he is inside, it means that he is willing to let you see his image...
...but if the clock is empty, I will come back instantly to kill you!
Save me, I beseech you!
Sister Almoner, Sister Martha, I shall meet you in Heaven.
My mission is accomplished, the three nuns are dead.
But, what about lsabelle?
The Master is with her, this means that she'll live.
Wait!
Can you tell me once and for all, what I am supposed to do?
Ah, here you are, finally.
You know, the Master is here...
The Master is here, he is finally meeting his fiancée.
He's meeting his fiancée.
So, we don't have to wait any more.
The presbytery has lost none of its charm...
...nor the garden its colors.
I am a mere image.
Accept the sacrifice that the nuns shall require from you...
...and you shall see me in my bodily reality.
I understand now.
I've seen him with my own eyes.
Dracula appeared before her.
Now she will try to meet up with him.
Careful, she's there!
Hey, what, what is it?
It's daylight, the Master had to leave.
We must find lsabelle.
Let's go down to look for her.
You, tell the last parallels to leave.
It's day, where is my vampire woman?
The woman I love, where is she?
The daylight could kill her.
It's daylight!
Hide the light!
Come, my beloved, I'll save you.
The light!
The light, the light!
I'll drop you into the depths of your universe.
Quick!
Triboulet, I know you love me...
We'll meet again!
Eric, look, it's lsabelle, go up and try to get her, right away!
I will snatch you from them, lsabelle.
I shan't leave you in their hands.
When you wake up, I will be next to you, and...
This is not the time to fall in love!
I can't help it, it's happening!
She can't be left alone, or they'll try to grab her again.
I will keep watch for the first shift.
Fine, wake me up in two hours.
I really don't know who you are, yet I will bring you back to life.
The Professor will snatch you from the monster that's lying in wait for you...
...and that cult that's keeping you prisoner.
You'll be mine!
The clock chamber...
...with them he can travel...
...like a ghost...
Forget all that!
How lovely is his coffin!
How welcoming this funeral chamber...
I shall meet him and he will fly me to the supernatural world...
...where the charm of the presbytery and the garden's colors--
Isabelle!
Wake up!
It does not exist!
Come back to real life!
The presbytery has lost none of its charm, nor the garden its colors.
Goodbye, you kind young man.
The Master is calling me...
I must meet him.
But if you must know, I'll never forget you!
Come, it's time you lead us to the Master.
Are you in contact with her?
Yes, yes, they are walking toward the beach...
Let's follow them, she will lead us to him.
Does she know where he is?
She feels his presence.
From what I can read in her mind, the monster is locked up underground.
Each night he leaves his coffin to...
...drink the blood of the victims his keepers catch for him.
He is counting on lsabelle to free him.
His keepers?
Yes, nuns from the Order of the White Virgin.
But Dracula, as you know, can bestow madness.
Like lsabelle, who is almost mad...
...the nuns who are guarding him have also been infected with evil.
Although they try to resist, still they must feed the monster...
We'll save her from her own plan, she will be sane again.
Eric, the madness that this monster spreads is horrible.
It even reached the nuns who were watching lsabelle in the Paris town house.
We have no idea of what we'll find where she is taking us.
But it's going to be a demented world.
What do you see in her mind, though?
I see the sea, I see cliffs, and the tide waxing and waning...
On an island, somewhere, locked away, the body of the monster.
No one knows where he is, not even his keepers...
Not even lsabelle knows...
Do you think it's prudent to let her travel alone?
She is not alone, Dracula's ghost is with her!
I am Sister Simplicity.
I will take you to Mother Superior.
It's all that's left of Sister Desdemona.
Those of us who were sacrificed...
...to quench the thirst of the monster come back to life as spiders.
They devour corpses that are drained of blood and returned to shore by the sea.
Isn't that true, Sister Mary of the Crucifixion?
Do you want to embrace this holy relic?
The Sisters of the Order of the White Virgin welcome you.
Let us immediately go to the chapel, and we shall celebrate your engagement.
Then we will take you to the site of the sacrifice...
...where perhaps you shall see the one to whom you have been fated.
My dear Sisters, it is now day...
...tonight the one we've been keeping for such a long time will come from his...
...loneliness to receive his fiancée...
...whose blood shall perpetuate his strange life.
We'll now take her to the beach...
...where the tide will carry her to a mysterious passageway below the sea...
...to the one who is waiting for her.
Glory to you, lsabelle, may you rest in peace!
Our friends have been notified.
They will meet us soon!
The vampire as well?
The young vampire girl?
But it's daylight!
It will be fine, her eyes are covered.
Mother...
...where is the corpse of the one we are keeping alive with a daily sacrifice?
So many of us have become flesh-eating spiders for this monster.
No one knows.
Mother Barbara did know, but after she slit her throat, the secret was lost.
But do not be afraid...
...as soon as we feel the madness that he scatters around, it will mean...
...that he survives, that he is there, incapable of freeing himself, but alive.
And who is this woman?
The woman our Sisters were keeping on the continent.
He has requested to have her.
Mother, are you sure that we are not committing blasphemy?
Sister Simplicity, God's ways are mysterious.
Our mission is to keep him a prisoner, but alive.
Isabelle!
I'm going to follow lsabelle so as not to lose touch with her mind.
You go into this passageway and look for the lair of the monster.
I'd rather follow lsabelle.
You will be more useful to her if you can discover where Dracula is locked up.
What a large green candle, Mother Ubu, it's a lovely headdress!
And do you think you are Hamlet?
It's Sister Pallid's skull, do you remember her?
Yes, I do, she was always so colorless.
You too will soon be just a naked skull.
If I find it, I will keep it as a souvenir.
Do you have one last wish, before you die?
I am not going to die.
This is the end.
There is no end.
You poor wretch!
At two-fifteen, like always, may Jesus fill your heart!
The night!
Where is the night?
Master, Master, can you hear me?
I am before a...
...chessboard.
Okay, describe the position of the various pieces.
Soon you shall be with me, in the real world.
Here we are only in the fantasy world.
Our world is blazing.
Satan, Satan!
Come, look.
Look, down there.
The Master is with lsabelle.
The Master.
Look!
The night!
Night has fallen, finally!
Master, can you hear me?
The White Queen.
Thank you, Master.
This, and checkmate!
Master, come back!
Come back, we've come to free you!
Do not move!
Eric, take revenge!
Kill them!
Kill them all!
Careful, these nuns have gone totally berserk!
Have pity!
I am not a monster, I'm only a poor wretch of a woman who's slightly berserk.
Take them to the boat.
The light of day will take care of them!
Your God had said "Thou shall not kill"!
Yes, but I am a madwoman!
Isabelle!
Someone found the secret passage.
I was the only one who knew it.
I will damn him for eternity.
Dracula is forever prisoner.
His monsters can no longer do any harm.
We are mistresses of the situation.
We have all lost our minds, by out mission is accomplished.
This is the final battle.
Isabelle, come, follow me.
Let's close the door on him, and he will have no power over you.
You really don't understand...
...kind young man.
You heard these words...
The presbytery has not lost its charm, nor the garden its colors.
Well, until you understand the meaning, you won't be able to join me.
No!
Isabelle, come back!
Goodbye, kind young man!
No, no!
Come back!
No!
You know, from the time that they seized me, I've been locked in a cave.
I am hungry, you understand that, terribly hungry!
No, spare her!
I have nice, pink-cheeked babies for you.
It's too late.
I know that you love her, but the daylight will kill her.
Now that she is still alive...
You know I need live prey.
Don't do it!
You are damned!
Aren't we all?
Forgive me, my pretty little vampire.
Let me satisfy my hunger...
...and you, Triboulet, destroy me if you can, but I can't control myself.
There where three small kids, they were gleaning in the fields.
One night they went to a butcher's house.
Butcher, can you put us up for the night?
Do come in, come in, kids, I will surely find a place for you.
As soon as they went in, the butcher killed them...
...cut them up in small bits, he did, and threw them in the brine-tub like piglets.
Never forget!
Never forget the ogress!
I loved you.
I can't live without you!