Three little children went a-gleaning in the fields
To a butcher dressed in white they asked to spend the night
DRACULA'S FIANCEE
"Come in children I've room for you all"
Inside the hall the butcher slew them all
Chopped them into bits to fill the salt-pork pit
Think he'll come tonight?
The moon's full. He'll come.
And her? She might not even exist.
My informer saw her from a distance.
A figure in white. She was moving.
Alive?
She's dead, but retains a semblance of life, thanks to him.
He loves her that much? Passionately.
We'll use it against him.
- If he comes. - Quiet.
Listen.
Place them on the grave.
- He's alone. - What time is it?
Midnight.
Look!
Here, drink.
Now is our chance.
My beloved!
How I adore your pale skin!
The circus will need a new jester if you don't talk!
What do you want?
You're one of the Parallels,
those who live in the shadows, who worship the Master.
He's the one I want!
What Master? What are you talking about?
- Look into my eyes. - No!
You resist hypnosis? So be it.
My assistant will open your beloved's grave
and daylight will turn her to dust.
Have mercy! Not that!
Where is the Master?
Ask the other Parallels.
I don't known but they will.
- Where are they? - Nearby.
In the ruins of the accursed tower, you'll find one.
- Who? - I don't know.
You'll recognize her.
The accursed Tower of Assassins.
She will come, drawn by the spirits of the dead.
Go to the tower and you'll find her.
If this is a trick, your dead girl will be dust.
Good-bye, Triboulet. Go back to your circus.
Damned brutes! You'll never find the Master.
The Parallels will kill you.
- What are we looking for? - I don't know. Someone who looks strange.
- It miight take hours. - However long it takes.
Scram!
Who are you?
I don't know. No one.
Why do you come to this tower?
Tower?
To dance by the tower.
Look at men child. Look into my eyes.
She's just the village idiot.
The dwarf sent us on a wild-goose chase.
This poor fool can't be a Parallel.
Look at her.
Her eyes are as empty as her head.
Yet she might have an imagination beyond our wildest dreams.
In her vagabond mind, she goes on a thousand adventures.
Look at me. Look into my eyes.
Open your mind. Tell me what you see.
I'm in the heart of Africa, chased by a horde of cannibals.
I'm on a vine over a watering hole.
An alligator is going to eat me!
Me, my boots, my white safari outfit,
and my pith helmet.
What happens after that?
I scream. I'm frantic.
Dangling from a rope below a hot-air balloon.
It's losing air and dropping toward the ocean. Sharks are circling.
What happens next? Please, keep going.
I'm in an opium den in Hong Kong.
Three Chinese men take me out, unconscious, through a secret passage.
I'm a cabin boy in the French navy.
I wear a beret with a red pom-pom.
Tell me about the Master. Where is he?
I know he's there in your wonderful imagination.
The Master? Oh, yes.
He's waiting for me in his castle.
He'll love me. He'll take me in his arms.
I am his! All his!
Where is he? Where is his coffin?
No one knows.
Only the Queen of Shadows can find him.
- Where is she? - In Paris.
The big city.
He infected her with madness.
The Queen of Shadows is insane.
But she'll run away and rejoin him.
- She's imprisoned. - Where?
In Paris, at the Mansion of Madness.
The nuns of the Order of the White Virgin...
are her guards.
They keep her far from the Master.
She won't say more.
Its odd. I sense two personalities:
the village idiot
and something more wild, vicious, nocturnal.
- Do you believe in this Queen of Shadows? - Of course.
In Paris, it shouldn't be hard to find out
where the Order of the White Virgin is hiding a madwoman.
Definitely not in an asylum. Maybe in a mansion.
Lets go find her.
I'm the Madwoman of the Tower!
Tonight I'll be another, so watch out.
Watch out for the Ogress!
Your Mother Superior is expecting us.
I'll ask someone to bring you to her.
Sister Cigar, Sister Pipe!
Escort these gentlemen to Mother Superior.
- They've come for her. - We must tell Triboulet.
Our friends must help her escape tonight.
Before they take her.
You wanted to see me?
Yes, Reverend Mother. Thank you for seeing us.
Can you tell us about the young lady?
The poor child has always been insane,
perhaps due to having the same genes as the infamous Count Dracula.
Dracula is still alive somewhere,
it is said,
and psychically, he calls to her.
He drove her mad...
and her madness contaminated us all.
The girl is deranged.
Her inheritance allows her to live in this mansion,
cared for by our most devout nuns,
who've been infected by her evil influence.
We all go a bit mad by being near her.
If only you could help her.
Now, my sons, I'll have you brought to her.
Thanks, Reverend Mother.
Get out of here! We must not be disturbed.
Where is she?
I'll summon her.
She's deranged, you know.
As they say,
she's special!
We're aware of that.
Sister Martha!
Kitty, kitty.
- Where's Isabelle? - Upstairs.
She's spying on us.
If she agrees to see you, she'll appear.
Sister, I'm cold.
I'm shivering.
Come here, Sister Martha. I'll warm you up.
Thank you, Sister.
It shouldn't shock you.
Living with this girl has unhinged our minds.
You can't guard a madwoman without going a bit crazy!
Yet we are still sisters of the Order of the White Virgin.
I'll summon her.
This is her song.
She'll come.
Brace yourselves.
She's deranged, insane from birth.
But we love our little Isabelle,
even if it's her fault we've lost our poor little wits.
QUEEN OF THE SABBATH
The presbytery has not lost its charm, nor the garden its bloom.
I am...
I am the little boy
who fished your scarf out of the sea.
Dear dear Cordelia.
We murder tonight, with blades.
I see...
I return to the shining shadows of death.
I won't argue today,
but we'll discuss it tomorrow
in the depths of the tomb.
Well, that's something new.
She has lost her mind.
She'll tell us nothing.
Madness always has a hidden logic, invisible to normal minds.
She's a Parallel, member of that famous brotherhood of strange beings.
At 12:15,
Like at all hours,
may Jesus be in your heart.
Lord, have mercy on her.
Near the clocks, I said, "Death's head."
Come, she's waiting for us in her boudoir.
I'll leave you with her.
Mother Superior thinks you can help her.
Please hurry, her madness is infecting us all.
This sinister mansion belonging to her family
is no place for the Order of the White Virgin!
You're a Parallel.
You're one of the Others, those who worship the Master.
He's in the Clock Room.
Where is that room?
The Clock Room.
His coffin is there...
filled with soil from his ancestral home.
I am the Queen of Shadows.
I am his queen.
My prince, King of the Night, I am merely your shadow.
- Where is he? - In the Clock Room.
I see him!
Dracula!
She saw him. She can lead us to him.
The more he speaks to me...
the more I feel my sanity slipping.
Look into my eyes.
At midnight, you'll awake.
You'll leave this place. Let no one stop you.
Once outside, turn left.
We'll be waiting with a car.
Now sleep.
Let's go, Eric.
See? She's sleeping.
It's not a natural sleep.
That man cast a spell on her. I saw him do it.
You've nothing to fear. We're here.
This night brings something strange, I feel it.
Those who want you back lurk in the garden.
Reverend Mother, please explain.
I will. Of all the nuns, you're the most sane.
She was abandoned as a child.
Poor, starving girl.
At the time, the Mothers of the Crucifixion took her in.
We never found out who she was, but she was...
marked.
Like now, she would repeat
strange phrases which seemed to come from another source.
Reverend Mother, come quickly! We have visitors.
I'm coming.
The coffin opens.
The lid creaks.
He sits up.
He stands.
He gazes at me.
He opens his arms.
I press myself against him.
Take me away, sweet Master,
far from these walls, far from these nuns.
- At midnight, you'll awake. - Yes, I promised.
I'll listen to your voice and meet you outside.
Who are you?
What do you want?
God, I'm alone.
So alone.
They're coming!
Coming to get you!
But who are you?
Mother Superior wishes...
you were far away on an island.
Someone else wants you too.
He needs a fiancée to save him.
The professor and his assistant want you too.
They're outside.
I don't know.
t-eave me alone.
You asked to see me?
Well, we're finally here to get...
We're here to get Isabelle.
- Isabelle? Who's that? - The girl.
You known the abandoned girl.
The one you've raised here, far from everyone.
We're distant relatives.
I see.
t-eave this holy place immediately.
If necessary, we'll protect that child with our lives.
You'll regret it.
You've no idea what you're up against.
Isabelle has a betrothed. He's an important individual.
Soon, you'll know him.
Sister Martha! Show our visitors out.
Not much longer now. It's nearly midnight.
- Mother? - Yes, Sister Martha?
You know I have a sixth sense.
- Tonight will be full of danger. - I know.
Don't worry. The two intruders have left the house.
I threw them out.
- If I dared... - Go ahead, Sister Martha.
As a child, I learned some Gypsy exorcism rites.
You want to use pagan rites to protect Isabelle?
That's right. We're alone. No one will see us.
Go ahead, Sister Martha.
From now on, we'll call you Sister Folies-Bergére.
Come to us, Isabelle.
t-eave the house.
Let no one stop you.
My child, what are you doing? It's midnight.
Don't let her leave! Catch her!
Come with me.
They won't catch you. I'll hide you.
You're the five-legged parallelepiped dwarf,
and I'm the Queen of the Sabbath.
Whatever you say.
Tonight is the engagement ceremony. You're Dracula's fiancee.
Lets go.
It's Triboulet! He's kidnapping her.
Quickly, follow him.
Our mission is complete. Now we can leave.
We're through with those stupid nuns!
Ogress, are you there? It's men Triboulet.
I have a surprise for you.
What a sweet little darling!
Thanks, Triboulet, for this offering.
It's a boy!
He's adorable.
Why are you crying?
I detest babies who cry.
Be quiet!
Son Triboulet,
what do you want?
- You never give presents for free. - This girl belongs to the Master.
We must save her from his enemies.
The Master?
He's alive?
Yes, and only she can lead us to him.
Hide her until tonight's engagement ceremony.
The Clock Room.
Just one more bite.
It's so sweet and juicy.
Hurry up. I might've been followed.
Don't worry. I won't touch her.
Too bad.
She must be sweet and juicy too.
Quiet! I think I hear someone.
You're right. Go that way.
There's a tunnel that leads to the Master's old castle.
Okay.
What is that creature?
Freeze!
Where is Isabelle?
Please, have mercy.
These tunnels are my prison.
All alone.
Buried alive.
I haven't seen daylight
since those men threw me in here.
I'm forced to steal the only food I can absorb,
horrible little waiting creatures.
I have no one to caress my body...
and satisfy my sensual desires.
- You're a Parallel, aren't you? - I'm nothing now.
I'm slowly wasting away.
Perhaps I am a Parallel.
I no longer know.
I don't know who I am.
I don't know why I wander underground,
feeding on mushrooms
and flesh.
Oh, yes!
Quivering flesh.
Where is the dwarf, Triboulet?
Triboulet, you say?
Perhaps.
- I thought someone was here. - He was with a young woman.
Yes.
Two blurry figures dance in front of my eyes
when I close them.
Maybe they're the ones you seek.
What do you want from us?
Love me. I'm begging you.
Look how I offer you my breasts,
my belly.
Look how I desire you.
Don't go, don't abandon me.
Hold me in your arms. Take me away.
We can't abandon this poor woman.
How horrible!
Kill her, Eric!
Filthy human!
I'm the Ogress!
You fill me with contempt. The Parallels will destroy you.
I can already feel my teeth
tearing your flesh and chewing it.
I'll rip off your skin,
just like I chewed
and swallowed that baby's flesh!
- Destroy the evil creature! - He's alive.
He lives.
He sees you.
I'll join him,
and we'll rip out your throats!
Dracula...
Let's get out of here!
We didn't see Triboulet exit. There must be another way out.
Quickly, let's find Isabelle!
Filthy cowards.
The Ogress will not die before seeing the Master again.
Are they here?
This is a lair of evil. As a medium, I can feel it.
Demonic rites will soon be held here.
Someone's coming. Stay out of sight.
Who are they?
Those two are sorcerers.
They'll summon the mistress of ceremonies for the rite.
Is Isabelle in that coffin?
Certainly not. Look.
It's her!
It's the She-Wolf, the mistress of ceremonies.
You summoned men Triboulet? What do you want?
Lovely She-Wolf, serve the Master. Sacrifice three nuns to him.
He must appear to see his fiancée.
His liberation draws near?
I'd do anything for him.
- Are we his only followers? - Lovely She-Wolf,
soon we will be joined by the Ogress and the Vampire.
Please, give me strength.
Save me from Death's clutches.
Quickly!
I feel life rushing into me.
Let me get dressed!
I don't want to go to God naked!
Poor souls!
Flee before the Parallels slaughter you! Flee!
Check if the coast is clear.
Come on.
You are his fiancée. Come.
If he wishes, he'll appear.
This clock is a passage between the Clock Room, where his body rests,
and this place.
If he is inside, it means he permits you to see his image.
If the clock is empty...
I'll come back in a few moments...
and kill you.
Please don't kill me!
Sister Touriére?
Sister Martha?
I'll meet you...
in heaven.
My mission is over. The three nuns are dead.
What about Isabelle?
The Master is with her,
so she must be kept alive.
Wait!
Tell me what I need to do!
It's about time.
Can you believe the Master's here?
The Master is here to meet his fiancee at last.
If he's with his fiancée, we just have to wait.
The presbytery has not lost its charm.
Nor the garden its bloom.
This is only an image.
Accept the sacrifice the nuns will ask of you...
and we'll meet in the real world.
I heard everything. I saw through her eyes.
Dracula presented himself to her.
Now she'll try to reach him.
Here she comes!
What do you want?
Day has come. The Master had to leave.
Isabelle must be found. We'll go.
You, make the other Parallels leave.
What about my beloved Vampire?
Where is she? Daylight will kill her.
Day is coming. Make it go away.
Come, my love.
I'll save you from daylight.
Daylight!
Make it go away!
I'll throw you into the depths, your world of darkness!
I know you love me.
We'll meet again.
There's Isabelle, Eric. Go get her.
QUEEN OF THE SABBATH
I'll save you, Isabelle.
I'll never let them get you.
When you awake, I'll be here -
- This is no time to fall in love. - I can't help it.
We can't leave her alone. They'll try to get her back.
- I'll keep first watch. - Good.
Wake me in two hours.
I don't really know you, but I'll protect you.
The professor will save you from the Parallels
and the nuns holding you prisoner.
Then you'll be mine.
The Clock Room.
Through the clocks, he travels like a ghost.
Forget all that.
His coffin is so beautiful.
The burial room is so welcoming.
I'll join him there and he'll take me away...
to the supernatural world.
The charm of the presbytery and the bloom of garden...
Snap out of it! Those things don't exist.
Come back to reality.
The presbytery has not lost its charm,
nor the garden its bloom.
Farewell, kind young man.
The Master calls.
I must go to him.
But I won't forget you.
Come. It's time for you to lead us to the Master.
- Are you in contact with her? - Yes.
They're heading toward the sea. We'll follow them.
She'll lead us to him.
- She knows where he is? - She senses his presence.
From what I see in her mind,
the monster is underground.
Every night, he emerges from his coffin
to drink the blood of the victims brought by his guards.
He needs Isabelle to save him.
His guards?
The nuns of the Order of the White Virgin.
As you known Dracula spreads madness.
Just as Isabelle is half mad, the nuns are also affected.
Although they imprison him, they must feed the beast.
We'll save her from them and she'll regain her sanity.
The monster causes horrible madness.
We saw how the nuns guarding Isabelle at the mansion were affected.
We have no idea what awaits us where she's going,
but it's a place of madness.
But in her poor head, what do you see?
The sea.
The sea and rocks.
The tide going in and out.
Somewhere on the island...
the body of the beast is imprisoned.
No one knows where. Not even his guards.
Not even Isabelle,
who only senses his presence.
Is it prudent to let her go alone?
She's not alone.
Dracula's spirit is with her.
I'm Sister Simplicity.
I'll bring you to Mother Superior.
It's all that remains of Sister Desdemona.
Those who sacrificed themselves to the monster's thirst
come in the form of spiders
and devour the bloodless corpses washed up by the sea.
Isn't that right, Sister Mary of the Crucifixion?
Would you like to kiss this holy relic?
The sisters of the Order of the White Virgin welcome you.
We'll go straight to the chapel and celebrate your engagement,
then to the place of sacrifice, where you ghoul see your fiance.
Dear Sisters,
at last, it is time.
The night has come for the one we've guarded for so long
to end his solitude and receive this fiancee,
whose blood will rejuvenate his strange life.
We'll bring her to the beach
where the tide will take her
through mysterious underwater passages
to the one who awaits her.
Glory to you, Isabelle.
I've informed the others. They'll be here soon.
The Vampire too? My beloved?
But it's daytime!
Don't worry. She's blindfolded.
Reverend Mother, where is the body of the monster
we keep alive with our daily sacrifices,
which have turned so many sisters into flesh-eating spiders?
No one knows.
Mother Barbara did, but when she slit her own throat, the secret was lost.
Don't worry.
As long as we feel his madness in us, it means he's still alive.
He's out there, unable to escape, but he's alive.
Who is this girl?
She was guarded by our sisters. He demanded she be given to him.
Are you sure this isn't blasphemy?
Sister Simplicity,
God moves in mysterious ways.
Our mission is to keep him alive, but imprisoned.
I'll follow Isabelle to keep in psychic contact with her.
You'll go in there to look for the monster's prison.
I'd rather follow Isabelle.
You'll be more useful finding Dracula.
Sister?
Sister Bertha, what a gorgeous hat!
Should I call you Sister Hamlet now?
It's Sister Pallid's skull. Remember her?
Oh, yes! Sister Pallid always was so pale.
Soon your head will be just a skull.
If I find it, I'll keep it as a souvenir.
Any last requests before you die?
I will not die.
It's the end for you.
The end doesn't exist.
Poor madwoman.
At 12:15, like at all hours,
may Jesus be in your heart.
Night! Where is the night?
Professor.
Professor!
Can you hear me?
I'm in front of a chessboard.
Can you hear me?
Yes.
Describe the positions of the pieces.
Soon you'll be with me
in reality.
Right now we only exist in their imagination.
Ours is magnificent.
Satan!
Hurny, come here!
Look over there.
- The Master is with Isabelle. - The Master!
You shall see too.
Night. Night, at last.
Professor, can you hear me?
The white queen.
Thanks, Professor.
Check...
and... checkmate!
Master, come back!
We're here to set you free!
Freeze.
Eric, avenge me.
Kill them.
Kill them all!
Watch out, these nuns are totally crazy!
Have mercy! I'm no monster. Just a poor, mad girl.
Put them on a boat. Daylight will finish them off.
God commanded, "Thou shalt not kill".
Yes, but I'm insane.
Someone found the secret passage.
I alone knew of it.
I'll seal it forever.
Dracula is imprisoned forever.
His monsters are out of commission.
We've won.
We lost our minds, but accomplished our mission.
Victory is ours!
Isabelle, come to me.
We'll imprison him in this place.
He'll no longer harm us.
You understand nothing.
Listen, nice young mam did you hear the phrase,
"The presbytery has not lost its charm, nor the garden its bloom"?
Until you understand what it means,
you'll never find me.
No! Isabelle, come back.
Farewell, nice young man.
No!
Come back. I love you!
Don't!
Since they captured men
I've been imprisoned underground.
I'm hungry. Understand? I'm terribly hungry.
Spare her, and I'll give you a fat pink baby.
It's too late.
Daylight will soon destroy her.
So, while she's still alive...
You know I need live prey.
- Don't do it. You're damned. - We all are.
I'm sorry, lovely Vampire,
but I must appease my hunger.
And you, Triboulet, destroy me if you liken
but I can't control myself.
Three little children went a-gleaning in the fields
To a butcher dressed in white they asked to spend the night
"Come in, children I've room for you all"
Inside the hall the butcher slew them all
Chopped them into bits to fill the -
Don't forget me.
Never forget the Ogress.
I loved you.
I cannot go on living.
THIS WAS DRACULA'S FIANCEE