631 - November 24, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- Under a turbulent sky, Collinwood sleeps.

None within its great walls can know the terror

this night will bring.

Not far away in a house by the sea

there is another who sleeps, the sleep of the living dead.

In a moment, this condemned soul will

be unleashed by a man who was waging a desperate battle

against time.

- You will rise.

Tom Jennings, you will rise.

No!

I have brought you back.

I am your master.

If I use this on you again, you will be sent back

to eternal damnation.

You will do only as I say.

Do you understand?

You will do what I tell you to do.

[screaming]

[theme music]

The part of Victoria Winters will

be played by Miss Betsy Durkin.

- Get away from me.

Stay away!

- Vicki!

Vicki!

Jennings!

[knocking]

- Mr. Blair?

- Yes.

- I'm Christopher Jennings. May I come in?

- You must be related to Tom Jennings?

- We were brothers.

Do you have a minute?

I'd like to talk.

- Well, uh, actually, it's very late.

I have a great deal of work to do.

- I tried to get in touch with you sooner.

You weren't here.

- What is it you want?

- I understand you were the last employer

my brother had before he died? - Yes, that's right.

- In fact, wasn't he working on a job here

the very night that he was attacked in the woods?

- Yes.

- What was his behavior like that night?

- His behavior?

- Yes.

Was he himself or did he seem to think that there was something

menacing him or something?

- I'm afraid I can't say.

Why do you ask?

- I want to find out whether or not he was m*rder*d.

- m*rder*d?

Well, I, uh, I can't imagine anyone

wanting to m*rder your brother.

- Neither can I. But I think something happened in the woods

that night that was rather more than an accident.

Mr. Blair?

- I'm sorry.

What did you say?

- I don't think that Tom's death was an accident.

- Why do you say that?

- Well, you saw him after the attack.

- No, I didn't.

- The doctor said that you came to visit him in the hospital.

- Yes, I did, but I was not allowed in to see him.

- Oh?

You haven't done in Collinsport very long, have you, Mr. Blair?

- A few months.

- Tell me, what exactly is it that you do?

- I am more or less retired.

- Well, I had hoped--

- What's the matter, Mr. Jennings?

- Nothing.

I just thought I saw someone leave your window.

- Really?

Well, I certainly hope not.

I can do without prowlers.

- Maybe it was my imagination.

- I hope it was.

Well, Mr. Jennings, if you don't have anything further

to ask me this evening, it is rather late.

I would like to retire.

- Yes, yes, of course.

Thank you for your trouble.

- Not at all.

Good night, Mr. Jennings.

- Good night, Mr. Blair.

- Barnabas!

- It's all right, Vicki.

You've had a bad scare but you'll be safe now.

- The man that was in here...

I recognized him.

- Yes, so did I.

- But I must have been wrong.

Tom Jennings is dead.

- No, you weren't wrong, Vicki.

It was Tom Jennings.

- But that's impossible.

Dead people can't come back.

- His kind can.

- What do you mean, his kind?

- I don't think you'd understand even if I told you.

- Barnabas, a person is either alive or dead.

He can't be both.

- He can.

- I can't believe that.

- But it's true.

There are very few such people in the world.

They exist under a terrible curse:

the curse of the living dead.

They cannot live in the light of day,

and by the dark of night they cannot die.

They feed on the blood of other human beings,

and they are called "vampires."

- Why, I never knew such things really existed.

- But they do, Vicki, and you were almost victimized

by one of them tonight.

- Barnabas!

- What?

- Didn't Tom Jennings work for Nicholas Blair before he died?

- Yes.

Why?

- Is it possible that Nicholas could have made Tom what he is?

- Yes.

- Then he must've sent him here to k*ll me!

Nicholas told me not to interfere, but I--

- What are you talking about, Vicki?

- I found out tonight that Maggie

is thinking of marrying him.

- Nicholas?

- Yes.

I went to see him to try to talk him out of it.

- Oh, you shouldn't have done that, Vicki.

You should have come to me.

- Yes, I realize that now.

- Well, tell me what happened.

- I told Nick that if he insisted upon going through

with it, I'd go to Maggie and tell her all about him.

- And he threatened you?

- Yes.

- But I never thought he'd try to k*ll me.

- He's k*lled many other people.

He would have no compunctions about k*lling you.

Now, Vicki, listen to me.

I want you to be very careful and I

don't want you to have anything more to do with this.

- Why?

- Someday soon I'll be able to tell you but I can't now.

Now, will you trust me to do what must be done?

I promise you that Maggie will be safe.

- All right.

- Come in, Harry.

Now, what have you found out?

- Well, I followed them when they took the body out

of the morgue. - Yes.

Are you sure it was the right body?

- Yes, it was a plain, unmarked box.

The Sheriff was there giving the orders.

- Where did they take it?

- To the Collinsport cemetery.

They just finished burying it about minutes ago.

- Excellent.

- You still haven't told me what we're going to do.

[knocking]

- Here, Harry, go through this door.

Go down to the cellar and find a shovel and a ladder.

- What for?

- Don't ask questions.

Just do what I say.

Stay down there until I call you.

- I thought I told you it was unnecessary for us

to see each other until tomorrow?

- If you want tomorrow to happen, you will see me now.

- If it's the body you're concerned about,

I have made arrangements to get it tonight.

- Perhaps you'd better cancel your arrangements.

- What do you mean?

- Mr. Blair, your scheme that you tried tonight didn't work.

- What scheme?

- Your attempt to k*ll Victoria Winters.

- I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.

- You are a liar.

- Be careful, Mr. Collins.

- You can intimidate me only to a point.

Now, before this experiment can be resumed,

I demand that you guarantee that Victoria Winters will not

be harmed.

Now, you sent Tom Jennings to her.

As long as it's dark, you can send him again.

Should this happen, I want to tell you

that you'll be making the greatest mistake of your life.

- Very well.

You may consider Victoria Winters's safety guaranteed.

Will that be all, Mr. Collins?

- No.

I will attach one more condition before I'll

go ahead with the experiment.

- What is that?

- I don't know what diabolical plan

you have for Maggie Evans--

- I'm planning to marry her.

I would hardly call that diabolic.

- But she doesn't know what you are.

It would be insane of her to marry you.

- That's none of your business.

- I am making it my business and I

must ask you to stay away from Maggie as well as Vicki.

- And if I refuse?

- Eve will not live again.

- Do you realize that I could condemn you

to the tortures of the damned if I chose?

- If it were to your advantage, but it isn't.

- How fortunate for you, Mr. Collins.

- Well, what is your answer, Mr. Blair?

- I want Eve to be brought to life.

- Then you will stay away from Maggie and Vicki?

- Yes. - And destroy Tom Jennings?

- Agreed.

Good night, Mr. Collins.

- Good night.

- You and Dr. Hoffman will be ready at sundown tomorrow.

- We will be ready.

- Harry!

Come up here.

Do you have everything?

- Yes.

Is something wrong?

- I'm deciding whether to go to the graveyard first

or to find Tom Jennings and take care of him.

- Who's Tom Jennings?

- Jennings will have to be back here by dawn.

I can deal with him then.

We'll go to the graveyard now.

There are not many hours of darkness left.

- What are we going to do at the graveyard?

- We are going to dig up Eve's grave.

- We're gonna dig up a grave?

- That's right.

- Look, I can't do anything like that.

- Harry. - Look, there are some things--

- Now, you listen to me!

If I don't get that body out of that grave, I'm in trouble.

And if you don't help me, you are in trouble.

- Mr. Blair, can't you get somebody else?

- No.

But I promise you, Harry, this will be the last request

I shall ever make of you.

After tonight, you will never see me again.

Now, let's get started.

How far is the cemetery?

- Oh, about a mile from here.

- What about the caretaker?

- He doesn't live anywhere near the place.

- Um, this is it here.

- All right, Harry, start digging.

Start digging.

- What's going to happen if we get caught?

- The one who catches us will never catch anyone again.

Start digging.

- All right, Harry, open the coffin.

I must make absolutely certain there's been no mistake.

All right, close it.

Now, get on that end.

Let's get it out of here.

- Where are we taking it? - To the old house.

- What for?

- Harry, stop asking questions and get this out of here!

- I was right.

This is where he must come for safety.

There isn't much time.

I can't stay in this room without being seen.

I'll wait upstairs until the dawn comes up.

- No!

Take it away!

Take it away!

- There's no use now.

It's all over. Look out the window.

- No, I can't.

Please, please, have mercy on me.

- No.

- Please.

- You're staying up here by the window until the dawn comes up.

- I'll do anything for you.

Anything!

- I know what you're going through.

I feel sorry for you.

- Then don't do this to me.

- I must.

- Stop it!

The light!

- It'll all be over soon.

- The light!

Please, no, no.

It's not too late!

It's not too late!

- Yes, your time is up.

Look!

Look out the window.

- Let me live!

Let me live!

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