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.
Yes yes...
Yes, it's all clear now.
They were the ones.
But what does this mean to you?
I have in my possession the remains
of the original Frankenstein monster,
put to rest in oakmoor cemetery
by one of a group of scientists
whose experiments with the monster were cut short
byan epidemic which plagued this area
many many years ago.
The only remaining scientist
had secretly buried the monster hoping to resume his experiments
at a later date.
He also was the man who discredited you
for fear that you had knowledge of his work with the monster--
Dr. beaumont.
Beaumont.
When groton returns, he will be--
relax, doctor.
I will give you orders
and you will follow them.
You don't frighten me.
I live beyond fear.
I think you will find
that working with me will be
a more intelligent decision, doctor.
We cannot wait. I will help you now.
We must prepare your laboratory for him.
The monster.
Yes. And all those
who would meddle in the destinies
of Frankenstein and Dracula
will see an infernal blood bath
the likes of which has not swept the earth before.
Laura, you're gonna have to learn to relax.
Iam relaxed. I wish you wouldn't keep saying that.
Oh, I love to have you in my arms like this.
I like to think of you as belonging to me.
Oh, come on, will you?
The second time you've done that tonight.
I hear it again--
likea huge dog prowling the beach.
Oh, he's probably looking for his mate.
And I've found mine.
Bob, I don't want to stay here any longer.
All right.
The first thing you said when I picked you up tonight is
you were tired of being in a crowd, right?
You wanted to go someplace quiet and alone.
So I blowa dollar on gas, we come all the way out here.
You know what's the matter with you, don't you?
It's that damned imagination of yours.
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- I hear it coming too. - Oh, don't listen to it.
Let's get out of here.
Have you seen this girl?
- What? - Have you seen this girl?
She's a friend of mine.
No, not that I remember.
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no.
Just bring me some coffee.
Rico-- talk to you a minute?
Rico: What's going on?
That broad over there, she's asking questions about you.
- Which one? - Over at the table.
Oh, yeah.
What does she want?
She's looking for some broad.
Here-- give her these.
Dr. Frankenstein,
your scientific skill has not failed us.
We will make the monster walk.
He was born with the electrical fury of the heavens
when the zornov comet passed over the earth.
29
the comet returns,
completing the monster's first life cycle.
Soon he will be born again.
We must work quickly.
The zornov comet has returned.
Dr. beaumont,
tonight you shall meet an old friend.
Who are you?
Keep driving. I will tell you where.
- Who are you? - Iam known
as the count of darkness,
the lord of the manor of corpathia.
Turn here.
Get out of the car, Dr. beaumont.
An old friend of yours, eh, doctor?
You'll see that Frankenstein and I
have made some improvements.
You feeling better?
Somebody thought you were a cop, slipped you a drug.
You were in another world.
Who are you?
- Where am I? - My name is Mike Howard.
This is my pad.
Who are you?
I'm Judith.
No last name?
- Did you want one? - No, not necessarily.
Let me see if I can guess.
Oh, I see the same turn in the nose,
the full upper lip.
- You know joanie. - I knew joanie.
I don't know where she is now.
You know, no one here will talk about anyone.
It's a kind of self-preservation.
Between urban renewal and the country welfare department,
we get bombarded with questions in relays.
Your ears get curled on the inside.
What do you mean you knew joanie?
What I mean is in this part of town, everyone knows everyone
- in one way or another. - But how did I get here?
Come on, i won't hurt you.
They brought you here. That's Samantha.
She goes with that goofy-looking kid over there.
He's strange. That's his name-- also classification.
- You sound rather cynical. - Nota bit.
It's just an observation.
That's my bag. I make observations for later replay,
like the football game on TV.
Man: Hey, Mike!
They found a guy chopped up down at rocky point!
It was all in bloody bits and pieces!
- Vvhat are you talking about? - They never found his girlfriend though.
Guy can't make out in peace anymore.
Man, it's a real bummer.
It's not usually this gory on the premises.
- Maybe we'd better go inside. - No, wait.
Justa little bit more fresh air.
Okay, come on.
Like I told you, she didn't say much.
We saw her on the beach about six months ago.
That's just about the time she left home.
This section of the beach draws a lot of weary, conscious people.
They can take those deep breaths they've been dreaming about.
Joanie was up by the amusement park.
That was the big attraction.
The big attraction?
She used to have fantasies about--
about being a freak.
A freak? Oh, I can't believe that.
Two heads, an eye missing,
an elongated spine" anything that vvas grotesque, it turned her on.
Well, that-- that's not the whole story.
The idea was
to turn into something beautiful
by using some magical formula.
That's why she used to
hang around that creature emporium.
What in the world is a creature emporium?
A leftover from the sidewalk carnival days,
run bya Dr. duryea.
At least, that's the name he uses.
You mean this place is a house of freaks?
Oh, everything's phony. It's strictly for the tourists.
On the other hand, i suppose
it all depends on what you're really looking for.
Joanie was looking for her own special fantasy.
This just doesn't sound like joanie.
So we greet the world of Dr. duryea.
It's nothing but a cheap sideshow.
I told you it's strictly for the tourists.
Mike, I don't want to go in there.
There's nothing I can find out about joanie in a place like that.
Rule number one about observation collecting:
Never take a situation at face value.
What you see is not what really is.
Better get out his pipe and slippers, Sam.
- He's showing his age again. - You two better be careful.
- The doctor may be casting today. - Don't you let him touch me.
- What about me? - You know how to go invisible.
Only from the waist down.
Strange: Wonder where that little scary guy is that takes the tickets.
Samantha: Maybe he's out to lunch.
Yeah, I can just imagine what he's eating.
Exhibit recording: Welcome to the creature emporium.
My name is Dr. duryea,
and I am the creator of all you are about to witness.
It's like listening to dial-a-prayer on the telephone.
Please follow my voice to the first platform.
Mike, we didn't come here
to hear a recording of some doctor's voice.
I've never been in this place before.
Maybe there isn't any Dr. duryea.
Strange: Mike, take my word for it. He's around.
The guillotine was invented
by a French physician educated at a jesuit college.
As a deputy to the national assembly,
he proposed that decapitation
be adopted as the method of capital punishment
in order to make executions
as swift and painless as possible.
Of course, there is no way we are able to determine
if the method is entirely painless,
but we certainly know by observation
that the entire procedure is swift.
If this had been an actual demonstration,
you would have noted the extreme lack of blood.
Sounds like he enjoys every word of it.
Look, Mike, there are wires all over the place.
This whole exhibit must be mechanical.
Maybe you were right about Dr. duryea.
And what is right about Dr. duryea?
Oh, I'm-- I'm-- I'm sorry.
I didn't know there was anyone about.
Iam everywhere, particularly in this room,
since all of these creatures are byproducts of my mind.
I'm afraid we came here for another reason, doctor.
My sister visited your exhibit...
Many young people come here
to study to mysteries of the occult.
- ...and now she's missing. - Missing?
Yes, she was last seen on the beach right by your very exhibit.
Oh, I see.
I have a picture of joanie.
The face is not familiar to me.
I know she's been here in the past, doctor.
Many people come here
to study the exquisite work of Dr. duryea.
Afterwards, their faces all blend in my mind.
However, you may leave your address at the box office
and I will contact you immediately if she reappears.
He was right about being all over the place.
Did you see his eyes when i showed him the picture of joanie?
- Yeah, I saw his eyes. - He knows joanie.
- I just know it. - What he knows
and what he'll talk about are two different things.
According to latest research,
the male gorilla may attain a height of six feet.
Hey, do we have to listen to Dr. Doolittle again?
I think we've had it.
It is interesting to note
the canine teeth of the female
are not developed into tusks.
Yeah, that's real interesting,
especially if you're going with a female-type gorilla.
Hey, Samantha! Look, a tire!
Samantha: You're on that kick?
Oh, but it's got meaning! Everything's got meaning.
You're dreaming again, strange.
Hey, Samantha, fetch.
Hey, baby, where you been keeping yourself?
Why don't you cut out, rico?
I've pulled myself out of the sewer.
I don't think she likes us. I think I'm gonna cry.
Let me tell you something, baby:
Nobody leaves us. Do you understand?
I think you've been around these squares long enough.
I need myself a new chick today,
so hop on the back and we'll cut out of here.
You all right, Sam?
Hey, look at the hero.
Ain't he cute?
Leave him alone.
Hey, that's a nice lookin' piece you got there.
Okay, baby, you want it this way,
but next time--
well, you'll see.
Come on, you guys, let's make it.
Well, I see you've moved into our neighborhood.
Sergeant Martin, did you see those motorcyclists?
Yeah, that's just part of the environment.
Well, they almost attacked Samantha.
Samantha? She knows how to take care of herself.
I can't believe the police would sayathing like that.
The police aren't saying it, miss fontaine.
I'm saying it. This is my area.
I know it. People like to play games,
and pretty soon you know what they are.
You learn when to leave something alone or break it up.
What do you know about Dr. duryea?
Well, now are you trying to play detective again?
No, I'm just trying to find my sister.
I told you to leave that to me, miss fontaine.
- Cop: Lieutenant? - That'll be something important.
If you've gota fireplace, burn some wood in it.
It'll be a lot better than running around loose on the streets.
Miss fontaine, stay away from the beaches.
Theresa maniac running loose.
What do you think of my little hideaway?
Oh, Mike, it's beautiful.
It's hard to believe
there's so much trouble in the world
when you're sitting here listening to the sound of the ocean,
and being here with someone so nice.
Well, it's about time you admitted it.
I just haven't wanted to get involved.
So many things i have to do.
You're right.
We don't want to get involved, do we?
Just be good friends, right?
Duryea: Yes, you're seeing it
coming into being now, groton.
The final stages of the adrenaline molecular structure.
The traumatic shock
which has vibrated through these bodies
has now been tempered,
tempered to an even rhythm.
The blood has reversed through the pulmonary artery.
We are all going through changes
of having the same blood.
It is following throughout all our bodies.
We shall soon become more and more as one.
Soon perhaps we will even look as one.
Your cure is here. I promised.
I promised you that,
but I must have the full force of the serum first.
I can no longer remain in this wheelchair.
I'm chained to it.
I need to feel the earth beneath my feet.
Without that, groton, none of you will experience a normal life.
What is it, groton?
I've not given you your shots
for transformation for the past 24 hours.
You should not be experiencing
any forms of metamorphosis.
I will not have that, groton.
No, I cannot have you work with me like this.
Your only quest in this form is for blood.
You're forcing me,
forcing me to give you a portion of the serum, groton.
You forced me because of your weakness.
Because of your weakness, we will lose a measure of the serum.
I will not help you again, groton.
Not again.
Mike, I've been thinking about what you said before.
About what?
Oh, about joanie being old enough to live by herself.
Are you giving up?
No, I'm not giving up.
Just giving joanie something she's always needed--
her freedom from a big sister who thinks she knows
what's right and what's wrong.
I'm sure joanie will thank you for that,
but maybe there's something else you don't know about.
Something else?
I've been thinking about everything that's happened.
I may have come up with a new idea.
Everything that's happened in the last week
is centered around the amusement park.
And the only amusement that extends out onto the beach
is Dr. duryea's creature emporium.
You mean the place where joanie got her parchivient?
Yeah, and who knows what else?
Then duryea is the answer.
Well, not the complete answer.
There's a couple things I want to check on
that may give us enough information
to force duryea to tell us about joanie.
This has gotta be some kind of a gag.
Drop her.
Stop or I'll shoot.
Oh, Mike.
Oh, thank god it was you.
Oh, I was scared to death.
You shouldn't be out here alone.
I know, but i just got tired
of waiting for you to come back.
Did you find out anything about duryea?
Sure, I found out he's a doctor all right,
but I still don't trust him.
Come on, let's check the pier under his exhibit.
Be careful, Mike.
We should be under the creature emporium by now.
This could be what we've been looking for.
- Vvhat is it? - The panel this chain's attached to
doesn't seem to match the others.
If I'm right, it could open likeatrapdoor.
If I'm right about that, I'm right about Dr. duryea.
Come on, Mike. I don't want to stay here anymore.
- Come on, let's go. - Okay, we'll go...
If I can figure out what we're gonna do about it.
Mike, do you really believe what you just said?
I believe the doctor is a collector of humans.
Oh, that's horrible.
I also believe he's trapped in that--
trapped in his wheelchair
and somebody...
Or something does his work for him.
But what about that trapdoor we just saw?
Easy exit for the hunter.
Mike, we just met the man. I know he's strange,
but he's not mad.
How do you-- how do you recognize madness?
Of all the aspects in a man,
madness can be the most impossible to observe.
But there's nothing we can do without proof.
We'll get proof.
Mike, why are you doing all this?
Rico.
No.
What are you so surprised for?
I told you nobody quits me.
Aaughs)
Ha! Gaughs)
Rico! Rico! Please help me.
Please help me!
Rico!
Oh, don't hurt me please!
Rico!
No.
Rico.
Help me, rico.
- Vvell, you gave yourself to that flower freak, huh'? - No.
It's all right. I just knocked the pollen out of him.
- No! - I hqpe ycdu saved a little for my friends here.
Hey, baby, you're in the sandpit...
And are you gonna enjoy it!
It's nice and warm.
And you got your tum-tum up against something.
Aaughs)
Rico! No, rico, no!
No, rico!
Oh no!
Did you hear that?
It sounded like achain unwinding.
Oh, Mike, let's not talk about that again.
I heard it before, Judith,
but now I think i know what it is.
- You stay here. I'll be right back. - Mike.
- Mike, don't go without me. - Don't argue with me.
Just stay here. I'll be back.
Mike, I just couldn't stay there by myself anymore.
Mike, that's just about where we were standing over there.
I know.
I could swear i saw something here.
- Vvhat do you think it vvas'? - Looked like somebody trying to pull themselves up--
unless I'm starting to imagine things.
What is it?
Samantha's locket.
Oh, Mike, no.
I'm gonna get in there and find her and...
- Nothing's gonna stop me. - Mike, vve've just gotta get some help.
This way, ladies and gentlemen.
Dr. duryea's creature emporium.
Stop! Hey you! You gotta have aticket to get inside this!
- Not for what I want. - You gotta have a ticket!
You're big! You can do that
toa little man, you wise guy!
But I won't be this way very long! I'll get you.
Your friend waits for you inside.
- My friend? - Yes, of course.
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do not fear me.
I am a little man, of no use to anyone.
- Then you have seen my friend. - Yes yes, of course.
He's waiting for you inside.
You wish to see Dr. duryea?
I've seen your phony exhibit, duryea.
Now I want to see what you have down below.
- Mike! - What-- get up here.
Be quiet.
Listen.
Back this way.
At least this'll be ready for us when we wanna leave.
He's making it too easy.
- This time, ycdu vvait. - Mike, I've gqt to kncdvv what's dovvn there.
Mike! Mike, it's joanie.
Duryea on intercom: Your sister-- alive and well.
You see, you are not visiting a m0nster's lair.
Joanie, are you all right?
She has experienced
a most remarkable scientific venture,
butas you see, she is well
-and no harm has come to her. - Why are you showing us all this, duryea?
Because I want you to understand
why you have been chosen
to participate in my experiments.
Again, you must understand:
You are not trapped,
but rather you will be spiritually released
by what will occur in the next few moments.
Like millions of others,
you believe what you see before you
as an uncontested fact.
A moment ago, you witnessed
the claiming of another being for my experiment.
S-Samantha.
She is well, but because of what she witnessed--
the destruction of three young men who wished her harm--
she produced a remarkable cellular conversion.
Her blood has the exact components
necessary to complete my serum.
I never thought such an alteration was possible
at such a short period of time,
but it happened.
It happened. And now i know it can happen again.
You two are lovers quite obviously.
And when you witness the sudden death of your lover,
the traumatic shock
will draw the reservoirs of blood
into a single electric stream.
You will feel yourself lifted to a new plateau.
And this physical resurrection
will be the beginning of a new life for yourself
and for others--
mainly my friends here.
Grazbo: Yeah, wise guy!
You're not so big now, are you?!
You're gonna get yours!
Groton, they've hurt our friend grazbo.
They must all die. They must all die!
Judith, get out of here! Get help!
Groton, get the girl! Stop her!
Get the girl!
What about Samantha? Something must've happened to her.
We're gonna check the emporium.
I gotahunch she might be there.
Don't forget we found those three bodies underneath it. Come on.
- Sergeant. - Yeah?
On the roof, is that Judith up there?
I don't know for sure.
Sergeant, find a way to the roof.
We'll check out this side.
I'm afraid your quest for knowledge
must end tonight.
Your interference
is going to prove very costly to you.
Your fear will fully energize
the molecular structure of your blood.
The monster will enjoy draining out every bit of warm fluid!
This is your last stop this evening,
your very last stop.
You are responsible
for the death of Dr. duryea,
last of the frankensteins.
I am Dracula.
The serum he perfected
would've rendered me invincible.
But do not worry,
it will not be long
before I get all i need of that serum.
When I do, i will return
with a league of living vampires,
an indestructible army of the undead.
Nobody will stop me then.
No, him!
Him! No!
Him!
My coffin awaits
your becoming immortal in its embrace.
Now you will join me
in the world of the living dead.
Judith: No!
No.
Stop! Stop or I'll destroy you piece by piece
as Dr. Frankenstein created you.
I must escape the burning sun!
I must get back to my coffin!